Ebay Payments Strategy Manager 

United States, Texas, Austin 

585501831

Responsibilities

• Payments Strategy Development and Analysis: Develop payments and financial services strategies and analysis for eBay to differentiate itself in the market. This will include crafting initiatives for optimizing payments transaction expense, pricing strategies and developing the key initiatives to support eBay payments goals and working closely with key cross-functional partners to gain consensus.

• Planning: In close partnership with buyer and platform product, partnerships, finance and risk partners, help create a three-to-five-year plan on payments funding mix and pricing strategy initiatives that support the long-term strategy. Work with PMO and peer strategy teams to ensure project alignment, resourcing and scheduling of the critical initiatives.

• Business case development: Create cases for transaction expense optimization initiatives and inform the thinking via discussions with cross-functional partners, tracking industry trends with a view to create best-in-class value-based pricing framework for eBay payments, and keeping in mind eBay’s overall strategic goals.

• Support: Provide assistance to the finance team on budget submissions and quarterly forecasting cycles, and to partnerships and business development team in their contract negotiations and provide both strategic and analytic inputs to them as needed - by closely working with the business analytics team.

• Monitoring and strategic analytics: In close collaboration with the business analytics team, build and improve areas for comprehensive tracking and monitoring mechanisms for new business initiatives, funding mix management and pricing for the payments business at eBay.

• Industry and competitive trends: Keep a tab on key payments and financial services industry trends in payments transaction expense strategies, the latest pricing strategies, share recommendations with the organization on strategic implications.

• Strategic Planning: Support and contribute to the payments and financial services three- to five-year strategy, including product and service offerings, experiences and capabilities; partner with key partners to ensure that execution is in alignment with the strategy.

Job Requirements

• Outstanding analytical capabilities (quantitative and qualitative), ability to generate key insights and recommendations on financial services

• Excellence in structured thinking, developing sensible, creative solutions to challenging strategic business problems. Creativity and “out of the box” thinking that drives innovation. The ability to “see around corners” and “connect the dots” that enable business to proactively drive business

• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply. Ease with executive-level interactions. Ability to create clear and simple storylines.

• Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking

• Ability to connect and work seamlessly with cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; comfortable managing with ambiguity

• Highly collaborative and a great teammate

Qualification and Experience

• Proven leader with at least 8 years of work experience – preferably 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting firm with strategy and analytical focus

• Minimum 5+ years experience working in payments or financial services

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience required; Masters or equivalent preferred

• Expertise e-commerce and payments strategy is highly desirable

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

$108,400 - $186,400

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