Partnerships Senior Manager

Were looking for a driven strategic and ambitious Senior Partnerships Manager to join our growing partnerships team in London.

In this role your main KPI will be to grow the acquisition of high net worth customers through strategic partnerships. You will play a pivotal part in expanding our growth engine by identifying pitching negotiating launching and scaling high-impact referral partnerships.

As a Senior Partnerships Manager you will bring vast experience in proactive outreach network building and closing complex commercial deals. You will be expected to set your own KPIs establish immediate quick wins and shape the overarching strategy for acquiring new strategic partners. Some examples include businesses serving globally mobile individuals expats and cross-border clientele (such as global mobility firms relocation specialists private client law firms accounting tax advisory and wealth management).

You will own the partnership lifecycle end-to-end: from attending events and leading cold outreach to pitching our product negotiating commercials launching the partnership and actively managing the relationship during its initial 3 to 6 months to ensure referral momentum before handing off to the Account Management team.

As part of your role youll need strong selling skills to convince partners to work with us strong communicator commercially minded and hands-on with the ability to build trust and close partnership deals.

Responsibilities of the role include;

Find new partnership opportunities

• Build define and execute outreach of the partnership pipeline

• Identify verticals we need to target prospects to outreach and own outreach to targeted prospects

• Work closely with Partnership Sales Specialist to outreach preparing meetings and pitches to new partner prospects

• Lead partner meetings pitch our product and clearly articulate the added value of Wise.

• Build relationships with senior stakeholders within partners

• Represent Wise at industry events conferences and gatherings to build a deep external network and source prospective partners.

Close and launch new partnerships

• Create end-to-end partner deal structuring including commercial models payout structures and promotional terms.

• Evaluate deal mechanics using metrics like LTV CPA and payback periods to ensure long-term profitability and alignment with product standards.

• Work with Partnerships Account Growth Manager to ensure a smooth management handover of newly launched partners

Reporting on new partnerships

• Regularly review deal progression on the pipeline to ensure youre meeting desired KPIs.

• Weekly check-in with partnerships sales specialists to discuss progress blockers and any suggestions to maximise pipeline progression.

• Collaborate with internal teams to review new deals performance evaluate success of partnerships and rectify strategy if needed.

• Identify new trends and key periods to find pipeline opportunities to help shape the team strategy.

• Report to senior leadership on pipeline status and change direction when needed to meet KPIs.

Qualifications :

A bit about you

This role is ideal for candidates with senior level experience in relevant roles who are passionate about unlocking true value through new partnerships.

• Experience in partnerships business development or sales roles

• Experience in new customer acquisition and growth marketing roles

• Demonstrated capability to set your own KPIs self-manage complex projects and build long-term commercial strategies from scratch.

• Proven success negotiating complex commercial terms and navigating high-value multi-stakeholder deals.

• Strong affinity for in-person networking cold/warm outreach and building lasting relationships with senior external stakeholders.

• Excellent communication and pitching skills with the ability to clearly present value propositions

• Demonstrable commercial mindset ability to negotiate agreement terms and deal with objections.

• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to handle both high-level strategy and day-to-day deal execution.

• Using reporting tools such as Looker Tableau Lightdash

• Strong knowledge on Google Sheets or Excel

Nice-to-have

• Existing professional network within cross-border services wealth management or expat ecosystem verticals.

• Strong understanding of cross borders financial services and international mobile individuals

• Fluent in multiple languages ideally Italian Portuguese French or German

• You have used AI and automations to help you making your day to day work more efficient

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1