At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.
Job Description
Are you passionate about building high-impact partnerships and driving commercial growth? We are currently recruiting for our Partner Relationship Management team where the successful candidate will take ownership of a portfolio of tier-one ISO partners in the UK.
You will collaborate across departments to deliver innovative solutions, deepen partner engagement, and ensure Elavon remains the primary acquiring partner. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a strong commercial mindset, this could be a good fit!
Key Responsibilities
Manage a Portfolio of tier one ISO Partners with strategic importance to Elavon.
Build a strong cohesive partnership to ensure future goals are strategically aligned with our focus points of distribution, increased value and optimisation
Achievement of set monthly and annual new business and commercial plans for each Partner as determined by the company and in accordance with the “I am Elavon” and Strategic Account Management (Internal Sales Methodology Programme).
Optimise opportunities to upsell and introduce the sale of more Elavon value added services and products where possible
Establish deeprelationships with a view ot wherever possible ensure Elavon is the primary acquiring partner for our ISO partners
Responsible for Managing all work activity / leads / sales through the company systems including – SalesForce and ensuring all internal processes are adhered to.
Interpreting and applying legal contractual terms to partnership, looking for ways to optimise and enhance wherever possible
Take ownership of your Partner Accounts to ensure that they grow and develop
Create and develop the partnerships to drive and maintain existing revenues.
Reporting accurately on a weekly basis through the CRM system ensuring that you can clearly represent the engagement and activity you have completed both interally and externally each week.
Build a robust process flow
Complete monthly and quartely Business Reviews to monitor Partner performance, growth and future strategy.
Build knowledge of Elavon’s capability and sell these product lines into the existing partnership where appropriate.
Maintain a high awareness and knowledge of the business market, card payment industry, competitors and internal activities to ensure that all business opportunities are identified, considered and closed appropriately.
Build strong internal relationships with key stakeholders ie, Operations, Pricing, Credit and Risk, Legal and Marketing, as required to ensure that partner opportunities are managed quickly and effectively through the partner customer journey.
Maintain professional partner liaison and ensure the ethics of the “Elavon Way” are followed at all times.
An understanding of ISO’s and the technical integrated ecosystem is advantageous to this role
Skills and Competencies
Maintain Professional standards at all times
Partner Advocacy
Ability to strongly articulate interally the needs of your Partners
Work independently
Build strong internal and external relationships
Collaborate across multiple departments
Bring innovation and growth to your Partner portfolio
Excellent planning and organisational skills
Ability to beflexible and work within a matrix organisation
Strong new business development skills set ideally in Partnerships
Must be able to clearly demonstrate the ability to Manage multiple Key strategic Partners
Proven ability to overachieve on targets and strategic goals set
Broad commercial and Financial acumen.
Technical Knowledge
Understanding on current trends and future solutions in card payments
Hardware and software knowledge in the card payment landscape would be an advantage
Experience in ISO, ISV technical and commercial models and landscape
Forecasting and margin management as a commercial tool
Qualifications
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.
Benefits:
We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
