Regional Account Director Bi-Lingual Spanish

Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the worlds largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide marketleading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities: Loyalty Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.

We have more than 25 years experience with 28 global locations servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries employing 1800 people.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include: Visa Mastercard American Express Cathay Pacific British Airways LATAM Flying Blue Accor EasyJet HSBC Chase HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1800 colleagues globally.

What You Will Do ....

Own the key strategic relationship with Mastercard regional offices in Toronto Purchase NY and Miami. This role has oversight of all Mastercard business in the Americas region. The Regional Account Director seeks trends and insights and enables the success of the team. This role is charged with developing key relationships inside each of the HQ functions and is responsible for identifying additional revenue opportunities for all Collinson products in the Loyalty Travel Experiences and Insurance & Assistance lines in the Americas. Leadership and direction to deliver longterm profit and revenue growth through the formulation and implementation of appropriatecommercial operations and product strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Wellestablished ability to build rapport and network effectively using a consultative selling approach.
• Expert in building relationships with the executive level of fortune 500 organizations.
• Formulation and implementation of strategic plans.
• Maintain a strong commercial awareness and understanding of commercial strategy market intelligence and competitor insight.
• Identify pursue and close new business within existing accounts via product market and portfolio expansion.
• Actively identify and pursue additional revenue opportunities cross sales or expansion of existing portfolios that will increase Collinsons value to the customer and increase customer satisfaction while meeting growth objectives.
• Help craft product and service offerings that maximize Collinsons marketplace appeal to the markets specific needs.
• Carry out regular account reviews. Be viewed as a trusted advisor by senior decision makers at a variety of client facing levels.
• Own and drive the professional business communications and ongoing crossfunctional interaction with the Client Plano Leadership London HQ Operations IT Marketing Finance and Customer Service. Taking ownership of the client experience and meeting client expectation

Job Requirements

• A personal interest in the intersection of travel and the banking credit card industries.
• Demonstrate strong conceptual and strategic business skills.
• Detail oriented with strong problemsolving analytical orientation and ability to meet deadlines.
• Able to structure an issue and analyze alternative solutions using metrics and other business data.
• Able to make sound decisions based on company policies and procedures.
• Lead and develop direct reports in their career development.
• Strong project leadership and management abilities.

Experience Required

• Bachelors degree with 5 years b2b Account Management experience or 7 years relevant equivalent experience
• Senior Account / Relationship management experience ideally selling to a payment network ( Amex Visa or MasterCard)
• Strong Microsoft Office Word Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.
• Commercial awareness and good understanding of international competitive environments.
• Fluent in English and Spanish required; Portuguese a plus.
• Ability to travel as needed (estimated 2550%)

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour race ethnicity gender identity sexual orientation neurodivergence family status age individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our ongoing success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven high performing culture providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter Do the right thing One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think act and interact right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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