Strategic Partnerships Executive
About the Job
- Responsible for the growth of Verve card scheme through strategic partnerships with entities in Nigeria, Africa and the Rest of World. Strategic partners include global merchants, processors, switches, resellers, consultants/enablers, government & corporates.
Responsibilities
- Identify, engage, sign-up/execute agreements, and manage strategic partners.
- Provide weekly reports on project(s) or engagement status for the existing strategic partnerships pipeline to the Team Lead, Strategic Partnerships.
- Extend existing Verve products to new markets (Africa) and manage strategic market expansion initiatives.
- Develop innovative products to deepen and grow the Verve scheme business.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide business support and guidance to project teams for onboarding and integration of strategic partners.
- Follow up with prospective strategic partners or initiatives to aid proper tracking and reporting of ongoing engagements.
- Support, research, and create strategies for rapid expansion of the Verve scheme.
- Conduct market research required to designate entities as strategic partners.
- Partner with cross-functional teams including (but not limited to):
- Business Development
- Technology
- Marketing
- Finance
- Risk
- Legal
- Compliance
- Perform any other tasks as may be assigned by the Team Lead, Strategic Partnerships.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or HND in a Business-related field.
- MBA (added advantage).
- French language proficiency (added advantage).
Experience:
- Must have 3 – 6 years working experience.
- At least 3 years experience in:
- Corporate Banking
- Electronic Banking
- Transaction Banking
- OR FinTech
- Experience closing deals with corporates (added advantage).
- Experience in Consulting or Telecoms (added advantage).
- Experience in Pan-African business engagements (added advantage).
- Experience in card issuance, acquiring, and payments projects (added advantage).
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Interswitch on www.linkedin.com to apply