Virtual Payments Product Partnerships Manager

Product Management Sabre Corporation is a leading technology provider to the global travel and tourism industry. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA, Sabre operates offices in approximately 60 countries around the world. At Sabre, we make travel happen. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Today, Sabre is creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. It is our people who develop and deliver powerful solutions that meet the current and future needs or our airline, hotel and travel agency customers. Join our journey! Team Description
Sample text: Sabre Corporation is a leading technology provider to the global travel and tourism industry. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, USA. we serve customers in more than 160 countries around the world. At Sabre, we make travel happen. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Today, we’re creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. It is our people who develop and deliver powerful solutions that meet the current and future needs for our airline, hotel, and travel agency customers. Join our journey!
In addition, Sabre Corporation launched Sabre Virtual Payments , an innovative payments hub designed to maximize value from every transaction. Sabre Virtual Payments allows our clients to pay anyone, anywhere and integrates seamlessly into their current workflows with the goal to change how travel payments is today to the benefit more our customers.
The Product Partnerships Manager role will be responsible for developing and executing a multi-year strategy to expand and handle Sabre Virtual Payments Partnerships across the globe. You will focus on deepening and continuously improve relationship with current partners and identify areas to expand the business with them. At the same time, you will work in expanding the current network of partners to allow Sabre Virtual Payments to provide a comprehensive offer to our customers. As part of these efforts, you will find new partners on the financial services space (PSPs, Gateways, Digital Wallets, Payment Orchestration Platforms). while at the same time collaborate with internal teams to choose the one that best suits Sabre customer needs.

What will you achieve?

• Identify and source enterprise partnership opportunities with key partners within the financial services space.
• Drive commercial deals from concept to key terms to contract signature and integration.
• Deliver a great experience to our partners - you will represent our company and be our partners’ liaison internally
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Commercial, Operations, Marketing) to identify and implement growth opportunities.
• Keep ongoing relationships with new partners and offer new ways to grow the partnerships.
• Keep aware of the market trends to expand opportunities and address new partnership areas.
• Work with commercial team to deliver the best partners for our cardholder customers.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to have real influence in a travel fintech team that will become a game changing item in our industry
• Get a deep understanding of the B2B Travel Payment industry and being able to influence how customers make best use of our products.
• Be part of one of the world’s largest Travel and Hospitality technology company
• Opportunity to Partner, Interact and network with many important players in the payment’s ecosystem in both finance and technology, which includes Banks, Fintech’s, card networks, C-Level of Travel agencies, including OTAs (Online Travel Agencies), Leisure and Business agencies and key stakeholders Sabre.

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience leading partnerships relationships in payments or travel payments
• Strong interpersonal skills, comfortable engaging with senior team members and customers-even C level at top customers
• Strong commercial acumen
• Customer focus mindset.
• Exceptional communication ability
• Strong payments knowledge on different regions around the world
• Strategic and Analytical thinking with willingness to challenge the status quo in order to make partnerships happen
• Capable of managing and prioritizing several competing tasks
• Positive attitude, willing to learn and step out of the comfort zone.
• Experience on Issuing and B2B payments

Nice To Have Skills:

• Understanding of the Travel Industry and the GDSs dynamics.
• Experience with Online, Leisure and Business travel agencies.
• Multilingual: Main Language: English. Spanish is a plus.

Benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation package
• We offer a comprehensive medical, dental and wellness program
• 25 vacation days annually plus an extra week of vacation from December 27 to 31 every year as year end break globally
• Flexible working arrangements, ability to work from anywhere
• Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
• Lots of fun in a globally set team with a global onboarding program
• Local events and celebrations
• 4 volunteering days annually, to use with your charity of choice
• High-end IT equipment to support you from day one
• Ample employee development events, incl. learning platforms / tools
• Diversity and Inclusion programs worldwide

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses. Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process. Join our life community at Sabre by following us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn #LI-Hybrid#LI-PS1