Senior Partnerships Manager, Music & Entertainment, EMEA

London, England, United Kingdom

11/1/2024

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 100,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,500 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech located across more than 20 offices across the globe. Valued at US$5.6 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Sequoia, Lone Pine, Greenoaks, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures and Mastercard, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

As Senior Partnerships Manager, Music & Entertainment, EMEA, you will be joining as a core member of Airwallex’s Commercial team in EMEA. You will be responsible for building and expanding an exciting and fast-growing new vertical in the EMEA Partnerships team.

We are seeking a strategic, creative, and highly driven Senior Partnerships Manager with 5+ years of experience working in a fast-paced or high-growth environment.

We operate in a hybrid environment, with a minimum of 3 days a week working in our office in Holborn, London.

What You'll Be Doing...

• You will lead, own, and develop a partnership strategy to scale this new vertical
• You will be accountable for managing an existing portfolio of partners, as well as pursuing growth and upsell opportunities in new product areas with these firms
• You will be responsible for pitching, activating, and managing new partners
• You will work closely with the EMEA Marketing and Sales team to position Airwallex’s value proposition in this industry
• You will represent Airwallex at industry events and conferences, as well as speak on relevant panels and webinars, and frequently present to partner firms to win their business
  
  

What You Bring...

• Experience working in fintech, spend management, and/or payments
• An existing network of partners in the Music & Entertainment industry
• Strong commercial instincts and a history of meeting or exceeding OKRs/KPIs consistently
• Comfortable working with data and spreadsheets (G-Suite, Looker) and building and delivering presentations for partners and clients
• 5+ years of work experience in partnerships, strategy, business development, or a similar role in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
  
  

Who You Are...

• Results-driven - you hold yourself accountable for delivering on your targets
• Proactive - you identify, plan, and execute against opportunities to grow, and you enjoy problem-solving to achieve those goals
• Laser-focused - you are ruthless in spending time on the highest-impact initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Commercially-minded - you enjoy negotiating and you strive to achieve the best outcomes for the business
• Relationship-oriented - you can build deep and trusting relationships with partners
• Excellent communicator - you have excellent written and presentation skills
  
  

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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