Expedia Group
Senior Manager, Payment Strategic Partnerships
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This range is provided by Expedia Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range $141,500.00/yr - $198,000.00/yr
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us? To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Senior Manager, Strategic Payment Partnerships The Senior Manager, Payment Strategic Partnerships will drive significant platform and commercial opportunities for EGP. The role will be responsible for a portfolio of existing and potential payment partners, including gateways, acquirers, issuers and card networks.
The Senior Manager will be driving the following areas for the assigned vendors or partners.
In This Role You Will
Stay abreast of commercial, regulatory and innovative trends in the payment industry, especially in EMEA.
Ensure our payment business is benefitted from our partners’ expertise, capabilities and innovations
Drive strategic alignment between payment vendors/partners and Expedia Group teams including marketing, advertisement, banking, legal and EGP products.
Serve as Expedia Inc’ go-to person for the payment vendors and partners to ensure holistic engagement at the enterprise level.
Define and execute partner/vendor strategy at region, payment method and payment method levels, align partner/vendor strategy roadmap behind EGP goals and priorities, partner with vendors to ensure high-quality, timely delivery of prioritized initiatives
Increase partner/vendor performance while maximizing financial benefits for Expedia Group through transparent and effective business reviews including QBRs and weekly calls
Conduct partner/vendor benchmarking, RFI, RFP or similar kind
Perform contract negotiations and monitor contract performance
Executive-level escalations and resolution for partner/vendor issues that have massive impact
Establish KPIs to constantly identify opportunities to optimize partner/vendor performance
Experience And Qualifications
Passion for Results: Maintain high standards for the individual, team, and organizational accomplishment; tenaciously work to meet or exceed challenging goals; derive satisfaction from goal achievement and continuous improvement.
Communication and Influence Skills: Clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups; communicate in a focused and compelling way that captures and holds others’ attention. Create and execute influencing strategies that persuade key stakeholders to take action towards advancing shared interests and business goals. Balance results with relationship.
Analytical Skills: Secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify core issues; commit to an action plan after weighing alternative solutions against decision criteria; proactively and quickly make sense of complex issues; respond effectively to complex and ambiguous situations.
Business Acumen: Demonstrate a keen understanding of basic business operations and the organizational levers (systems, processes, departments, functions) that drive profitable growth; draw from personal experience to quickly evaluate business plans and processes to identify data or recommendations that need further investigation.
Decision making: Use a factual approach to decision-making by systematically collecting valid and reliable data. Rely on the data rather than on emotions. Have the backbone to disagree and commit to the decisions towards better business outcomes.
8+ years’ experience in strategic partner or vendor management, with a track record of turning around partner relationships to drive significant results
8+ years of experience in independently negotiating contracts, preferably in an ecommerce or IT services environment
Expertise in one of the following industries would be a plus: Travel, Airlines, Hotels, and payments
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $141,500.00 to $198,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $226,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
The total cash range for this position in Austin is $141,500.00 to $198,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $226,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Business Development and Sales
Industries
Software Development
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Hit Apply below to send your application for consideration Ensure that your CV is up to date, and that you have read the job specs first. Join to apply for the Senior Manager, Payment Strategic Partnerships role at Expedia Group
This range is provided by Expedia Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range $141,500.00/yr - $198,000.00/yr
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us? To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Senior Manager, Strategic Payment Partnerships The Senior Manager, Payment Strategic Partnerships will drive significant platform and commercial opportunities for EGP. The role will be responsible for a portfolio of existing and potential payment partners, including gateways, acquirers, issuers and card networks.
The Senior Manager will be driving the following areas for the assigned vendors or partners.
In This Role You Will
Stay abreast of commercial, regulatory and innovative trends in the payment industry, especially in EMEA.
Ensure our payment business is benefitted from our partners’ expertise, capabilities and innovations
Drive strategic alignment between payment vendors/partners and Expedia Group teams including marketing, advertisement, banking, legal and EGP products.
Serve as Expedia Inc’ go-to person for the payment vendors and partners to ensure holistic engagement at the enterprise level.
Define and execute partner/vendor strategy at region, payment method and payment method levels, align partner/vendor strategy roadmap behind EGP goals and priorities, partner with vendors to ensure high-quality, timely delivery of prioritized initiatives
Increase partner/vendor performance while maximizing financial benefits for Expedia Group through transparent and effective business reviews including QBRs and weekly calls
Conduct partner/vendor benchmarking, RFI, RFP or similar kind
Perform contract negotiations and monitor contract performance
Executive-level escalations and resolution for partner/vendor issues that have massive impact
Establish KPIs to constantly identify opportunities to optimize partner/vendor performance
Experience And Qualifications
Passion for Results: Maintain high standards for the individual, team, and organizational accomplishment; tenaciously work to meet or exceed challenging goals; derive satisfaction from goal achievement and continuous improvement.
Communication and Influence Skills: Clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups; communicate in a focused and compelling way that captures and holds others’ attention. Create and execute influencing strategies that persuade key stakeholders to take action towards advancing shared interests and business goals. Balance results with relationship.
Analytical Skills: Secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify core issues; commit to an action plan after weighing alternative solutions against decision criteria; proactively and quickly make sense of complex issues; respond effectively to complex and ambiguous situations.
Business Acumen: Demonstrate a keen understanding of basic business operations and the organizational levers (systems, processes, departments, functions) that drive profitable growth; draw from personal experience to quickly evaluate business plans and processes to identify data or recommendations that need further investigation.
Decision making: Use a factual approach to decision-making by systematically collecting valid and reliable data. Rely on the data rather than on emotions. Have the backbone to disagree and commit to the decisions towards better business outcomes.
8+ years’ experience in strategic partner or vendor management, with a track record of turning around partner relationships to drive significant results
8+ years of experience in independently negotiating contracts, preferably in an ecommerce or IT services environment
Expertise in one of the following industries would be a plus: Travel, Airlines, Hotels, and payments
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $141,500.00 to $198,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $226,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
The total cash range for this position in Austin is $141,500.00 to $198,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $226,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
Accommodation requests
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Business Development and Sales
Industries
Software Development
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