Amazon is seeking a Senior Business Development Manager to drive innovative partnerships in the financial services sector. Amazon Payment Products creates and manages a global portfolio of products including cobranded credit cards instalment financing third party point redemptions and gift cards. We seek to expand our portfolio to serve customers with more differentiated products in more countries through partnerships in the financial services industry.
The Business Development Manager can identify structure and negotiate strategic partnerships on behalf of Amazon Payment Products in Europe. You will be responsible for working with incountry business teams and external partners to design products and for negotiating partnership agreements with external financial services partners. This role is expected to manage relationships and negotiations for strategic partnerships that drive value to Amazon and our customers and will represent Amazon to external partners.
You will need to work collaboratively with both internal and external teams. You will be executing a multicountry multiproduct roadmap while diving deep to understand customer needs local practices and product capabilities to structure and negotiate partnerships that drive value to customers partners and Amazon. We are seeking an analytical and strategic thinker who is passionate about Amazons Customer Obsession to join our team. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex problems works effectively with crossfunctional internal and external teams and excels in logical structuring and written and verbal communication. Effective negotiation and the ability to understand multiparty financial structures are critical parts of this job.
Key job responsibilities
Driving the strategic development process to execute on a multicountry multiproduct financial services roadmap in collaboration with internal stakeholders from Product Operations Engineering Finance Legal Tax Accounting and senior management in multiple countries
Support internal assessment of operational financial and customer experience tradeoffs when making product development and partnership decisions
Communicate the product and partnership vision to internal and external stakeholders and influence crossfunctional teams to invest and execute on that vision
Dive deep to understand financial contractual and technical considerations for each product and partnership
Create and promote mechanisms to enable datadriven decisions with process discipline to keep multifunctional teams moving in a common direction
Develop best practices to drive improvements to the product development and negotiation process
Proven ability to distil complex ambiguous information with clear analytical frameworks to drive decisions that consider longterm benefits and nearterm results
Ability to earn and keep trust with stakeholders from multiple functions companies and cultures
Experience in the financial services strategy consulting or technology sectors
Product development and partnerfacing negotiation experience
Superior written and verbal communication skills
Experience with product development and negotiations in the consumer financial services industry
Experience with a strategic consulting firm with a specialisation in payments/financial services
Ability to build and maintain a network of relationships with potential partners to facilitate deal flow
Entrepreneurial mindset with the tenacity to develop ideas independently and the ability to multitask and thrive in a fastpaced environment.
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