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About us
At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.
GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 85,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We are headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Latvia and the United States.
The role
We are looking for a Partner Manager to oversee and cultivate a portfolio of strategic partners that drive our indirect sales channel, focusing on achieving growth and revenue goals. This role involves building relationships with key decision-makers within partner organizations, leveraging these connections to identify opportunities, facilitate partnerships, and execute joint business plans while providing ongoing education on the GoCardless proposition.
What excites you
- Managing, nurturing and growing a portfolio of strategic partners that drive an indirect sales channel to achieve growth, targets and revenue goals
- Creating relationships across a network of decision makers within your partners including product, marketing, operations, execs. Leveraging this network to identify opportunities and build success across all areas: GTM, sales, customer acquisition
- Hosting regular QBRs and business reviews - reporting on partners success and define actionable goals
- Building campaigns and customer acquisition targets to maximise the lead and conversion potential for the partners in your portfolio
- Forecasting and tracking partner success against an agreed set of mutual objectives
- Creating joint business plans with your partners to drive longstanding successful mutually beneficial partnerships
- Enabling and educating partners to understand the GoCardless proposition
- Being an advocate for partners, represent the needs of the eco system within GoCardless
What excites us
- 3+ years partner management/ partner development experience or new business/ account management experience in a B2B SaaS environment.
- A proven track record of exceeding quotas, preferably within the payments or fintech space.
- A strategic thinker who enjoys identifying growth opportunities, and driving revenue from partnerships
- Experience in B2B partner contract negotiation
- Builds rapport to form longstanding strategic partner relationships
- You are commercially astute and take a holistic view of the partner strategy when evaluating the impact of your activities.
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period (in accordance with our work away policy)
- Adaptive Working - Our hybrid workplace model fosters collaboration and flexibility, with in-office days determined at team level
- Equity - all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
Life at GoCardless
We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCees’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.
We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of July 2024;
45% identify as women
23% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other
10% identify as LGBTQIA+
9% identify as neurodiverse
2% identify as disabled
If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report
Sustainability
We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here.
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