Job Responsibilities
- Understand local market to define country value propositions and visions
- Anticipate internal and external factors impacting the business’ governance and implement plans to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities
- Develop and articulate a comprehensive forward looking plan for all Western European Countries
- Identify market opportunities, customer needs, and competitive landscape to strengthen countries positioning and socialise with internal stakeholders
- Familiarize with local country nuances through market research, customer feedback, and industry trends
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, industry partners, and regulatory bodies
- Help drive country footprint deepening and revenue growth through targeted commercialisation plans
- Monitor country performance metrics, check on growth progress of the country, and identify areas for improvement
- Detect opportunities to enhance product offerings and country footprint
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and regulatory changes impacting the payments landscape
- Foster a culture of innovation and agility within the team, encouraging creative problem-solving and experimentation
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Fluency in English
- Experience focused in a product development, management, product delivery or comparable role
- Payments experience, preferably commercial payments with a knowledge of payment systems, banking operations, and financial technology
- Experience working with industry and regulatory bodies, standard setters
- Proven ability to achieve quality results in a high-pressure, rapidly changing environment requiring flexibility / adaptability to changeable directives
- Effective change-management and strategy-management experience. Ability to connect with teams to influence current-state mindset, help them adapt to a changing environment
- Execution-oriented self-starter who likes to take initiative
- Advanced communication, presentation, influencing and interpersonal skills with an ability to present complex information clearly to various stakeholders
- Demonstrable strategic thinker with an ability to develop a Vision
- Ability to develop and articulate a clear value proposition that aligns with business objectives
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Aptitude to collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Project management skills would be a plus