Partnerships Manager

**Job Highlights**
- High impact role in a fast-growing start-up
- Ambitious, fun and family-like team culture
- Work directly with Founders and Management team
- Are you interested in joining a fintech company that is changing the way consumers get loans? _
- Do you enjoy being at a heart of a business with large and direct impact on its customers?_
- Are you ready for fast personal growth in a fast growing start-up?_

**About Lendela**

At Lendela we connect consumers to financial institutions to help them get the best personal loans. With our technology-driven reverse auction model, we’re bringing the world’s most advanced personal loan marketplace to this region. Based on a Scandinavian success story, Lendela’s highly experienced team has been connecting banks and consumers since 2003.

Our team culture is flat, friendly and family-like. We value ambition, collaborative teamwork and open communication, where regardless of seniority everyone is stimulated to challenge the status-quo and help improve the way we do things. You will have autonomy on how you achieve your goals but with that comes responsibility to hit the targets. Delivering takes precedence over working hours.

**Partnerships Manager / Senior Manager**

As Partnerships (Sr) Manager, you will be the cornerstone of Lendela’s success. To give the best loans to our customers, every bank/financial partner on our platform needs to be fully engaged, high performing and as ambitious as we are, while always putting the customer first. This is where you come in.

You’ll build strong relationships and use tailored account planning and negotiation to get our partners to a next level. You’ll also bring new, bigger, better partners onboard and ensure they thrive on Lendela. You use your strategic acumen to design, develop and execute your vision of scaling the partnership function; ensuring our partners can increasingly self-serve and self-improve using Lendela’s tools and insights in the most scalable way.

**Responsibilities**:

- Realise steep growth by developing existing partnerships and establishing new ones.
- Use data and benchmarks to advise partners on how to excel on Lendela.
- Ensure their needs are supported by our operations, and vice-versa.
- Design the product roadmap, to scale the way we work with our partners.
- Handcraft the future of the function, together with the Founders and Management team.

**What’s on offer**:

- Large and direct impact on our organisation and business performance.
- Opportunity for fast personal/career growth in a fast growing start-up.
- Close teamwork with fintech professionals across different geographies and functions like Marketing, CS and Product.
- Opportunity to design and drive your own projects.
- Ambitious but also fun and family-like team culture.
- Competitive compensation.

**Key Requirements**:

- 3-10 years experience and proven track record in partnership / business key account management, sales and/or business development.
- Excellent analytical skills, stakeholder management skills and communication skills.
- Strong sense of ownership, responsibility and persistence.
- Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- A plus but not a must; experience in key account management or business development in Marketplaces (e.g. ecommerce platforms, food delivery, other).
- A plus but not a must; experience in the Lending industry.

**Salary**: $3,000.00 - $8,000.00 per month

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Employees who are feeling unwell are required to take MC or work from home, and test with ART.

**Experience**:

- Partnerships management: 3 years (preferred)
- Business development: 3 years (preferred)
- Business key account management: 3 years (preferred)
- start-up: 1 year (preferred)