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Manager, Account Executive - Fintechs and Wallets Partners, Abidjan
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Manager, Account Executive - Fintechs and Wallets Partners, Abidjan (Fintech and Digital Wallets): Driving wallet strategy, payment volume growth, and strategic partnerships with fintechs and wallet partners in the region with an accent on mobile payment solutions, merchant acceptance, and market-specific initiatives. Focus on negotiating major partnerships, launching mobile-based payment technologies, and translating local market and regulatory needs into payment strategies.
Location: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; hybrid work with office days confirmed by the Hiring Manager
Company
is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities.
What you will do
- Execute wallet and partner strategies to increase payment volume, market share, and data processing revenues.
- Drive acceptance of payment solutions across key business segments, including major merchants.
- Secure and close strategic partnerships with fintechs, wallet providers, clients, and other partners.
- Build relationships with fintech decision-makers and support negotiations for strategic partnerships.
- Deploy and take new mobile-based payment technology solutions to market.
- Develop payment initiatives for traditional and emerging merchant segments across physical and virtual environments.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience, including experience in progressive leadership roles in the payments industry.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; advanced degrees may qualify with less experience.
- Knowledge of payment networks, processing services, mobile technology, payment acceptance, issuing, and merchant acquiring.
- Strong sales, relationship management, influencing, negotiation, communication, and project management skills.
- Experience shaping and delivering strategies and taking new products from conception through commercial launch.
- Knowledge of emerging payment solutions, including mobile wallets, mobile money ecosystems, agent banking, and mobile money transfers.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of systems.
- Experience using project management tools and Microsoft Office applications.
Culture & Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement with office attendance determined by the Hiring Manager.
- Collaboration with regional, digital, functional, and global teams to exchange and apply best practices.
- Cross-cultural work involving leadership teams, country managers, clients, and third-party partners.
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