Card Partnerships & Alliances

About the Role

PayTech Group is seeking a Card Partnerships & Alliances professional to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This contract position involves leading strategic partnerships and alliances to enhance the company's card value proposition, drive customer acquisition, engagement, usage, and retention, and deliver differentiated benefits and rewards. The role requires 5-10 years of experience.

Role Purpose

The position holder will be responsible for building and managing relationships with various partners, including merchants, lifestyle brands, travel providers, retail groups, hospitality partners, e-commerce platforms, and loyalty providers. This includes negotiating commercial terms and executing impactful campaigns and customer programs. The role involves cross-functional collaboration with Product, Marketing, Digital, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and Operations teams to ensure effective execution and optimize results by tracking performance, ROI, and partner contribution.

Core Responsibilities

• Building partnerships with merchants, lifestyle brands, travel providers, retail groups, hospitality partners, e-commerce platforms, and loyalty providers.
• Supporting card acquisition, activation, usage, and retention campaigns.
• Developing benefit platforms, promotional offers, rewards propositions, and customer engagement programs.
• Negotiating commercial terms, partner agreements, campaign mechanics, and service-level expectations.
• Managing partner relationships and ensuring timely campaign execution.
• Working closely with product, marketing, digital, legal, compliance, procurement, and operations teams.
• Tracking campaign performance, customer uptake, spend uplift, ROI, and partner contribution.

Knowledge and Experience

• 5-7 years of experience in partnerships, alliances, business development, or marketing partnerships, preferably within a card issuing business, bank, payment company, fintech, loyalty program, or marketing agency.
• Proven experience developing and managing partnerships across merchants, lifestyle, travel, retail, hospitality, e-commerce, and loyalty ecosystems, including negotiating commercial terms, agreements, and campaign structures.
• Strong understanding of card acquisition, activation, usage, and retention, with experience developing rewards, benefits, promotional offers, and customer engagement programs.
• Experience managing end-to-end partnership campaigns and cross-functional delivery, with the ability to track customer uptake, spend uplift, ROI, and partner contribution.
• Strong marketing communication skills, including campaign messaging, customer communications, presentations, and partner proposals.
• GCC or KSA experience is an advantage, particularly in regional merchant partnerships, banking campaigns, or local customer engagement initiatives.

Work Type and Location

This is a Contract position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Process

Salary details for this position will be disclosed during the application process.