Senior Specialist, Partnership Management at MasterCard Nigeria

Job Overview

• Responsible for supporting the Partnerships and Merchant Loyalty team in identifying, negotiating and deploying strategic alliances and partnerships to support product value propositions and reward programs in MEA.
• Active management of partnerships and strategic management of vendors to optimize and differentiate MasterCard products and services.
• Responsible for identifying incremental revenue opportunities and implementing cost reduction
• Build partnership business cases based on data available, market data and trends
• Work closely with Product, Marketing, Operations, Account Management and Implementation teams to ensure smooth design, implementation and launch of assigned projects.
• Work closely with Operations team on partnerships implementations and billing
• Monitor direct and indirect competition, study market trends and needs, evaluate research results to deliver competitive differentiation in MC products.
• Development of partnership collateral to demonstrate MC’s programs to prospective partners and stakeholders.
• Planning and managing all Partnerships campaigns, evaluate and present results, to all stakeholders
• Responsible for establishing standards for vendor performance and escalations; remediating performance patterns, and establishing budget, forecast and creating and managing POs
• Responsible for contract negotiations and amendments directly with vendors
• Scheduling/facilitation vendor QBRs for al vendors/partners