Partnerships Manager - Issuer Advocacy

Are you ready to unleash your full potential? We’re looking for people who are passionate about payments to chart Worldpay’s path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world.

About the team

The Financial Partnerships team manages Worldpay’s relationship with critical financial service providers. These providers include companies such as Sponsor Banks, Settlement Banks, PSPs, and other financial institutions who provide services to Worldpay as part of its global payment platforms and solutions. As a money movement business, Worldpay’s relationships with these financial service providers is extremely critical to our overall value proposition and ability to deliver services to clients at scale and without disruption.

What you will be doing

You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of card issuers that we seek to establish data sharing arrangements with. You will own the overall relationship with each partner and ensure that the strategies of Worldpay and the partner are aligned to drive mutual benefits of authorization rate improvements, reduced fraud, improved cardholder experience, and retained interchange for the issuer.

Own day-to-day relationship with key card issuers

Prepare Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to share Worldpay authorization rate performance at the card issuers and any improvements derived from our data sharing arrangements

Lead negotiations on contracts when up for renewal and/or adding new products, services, geographies, etc.

Work with internal teams (e.g., network partnerships, legal, data privacy, implementations, authorization management performance, etc.) to share data with card issuers

Identify, evaluate, and build relationship with potential new card issuers

What you bring

A can-do attitude and excitement for building a new team within a leading payments company

Ability to influence and work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders across a variety of functions and geographies

Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to seamlessly move from thinking about high-level strategy to being “in the weeds” on critical items

A passion and interest in financial services

Great organizational skills, with the ability to segment and compartmentalize information, documents, and relationships across a number of different partners

Added bonus if you have

Experience working in Financial Partnership-oriented roles

Experience working in the Payments and/or broader Financial Services industry

Experience being part of a new function/team within a larger organization

What we offer you

A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities

A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team

The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology

A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect

Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset