346 Partner Relations jobs in the United Arab Emirates

About Driven
Driven Properties is one of the UAE’s leading real estate companies with a reputation for excellence across brokerage, property management, and development. As we continue to expand locally and internationally, we are launching a new Strategic Partnerships function to build high-value collaborations that fuel growth and generate leads.

We are seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial Head of Strategic Partnerships to design, launch, and lead this new department. This is a unique opportunity to create a function from the ground up, shaping how Driven connects with industry leaders, corporate partners, and global networks to drive long-term success.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the partnerships strategy for lead generation and business growth across the Group.
• Identify, negotiate, and secure strategic alliances with corporates, developers, financial institutions, relocation companies, and other industry stakeholders.
• Build partnerships with international referral networks to generate inbound clients.
• Design the structure, processes, and KPIs of the new department, setting a strong foundation for scalability.
• Collaborate with marketing, sales, and brokerage teams to integrate partnerships into the wider business strategy.
• Manage the full partnership lifecycle — from prospecting, onboarding, and activation to performance measurement and growth.
• Represent Driven at industry events, exhibitions, and forums to strengthen brand presence and explore opportunities.
• Build and lead a small, high-performing partnerships team as the department grows.
• Report directly to the CEO on performance, opportunities, and expansion strategies.

• Proven track record in strategic partnerships, business development, or corporate alliances, ideally within real estate, luxury, financial services, or hospitality.
• 5+ years of experience with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.
• Strong network across corporates, developers, and industry stakeholders in the region.
• Demonstrated success in designing and executing partnership strategies that deliver measurable commercial outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build a department from scratch.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to think strategically and execute tactically in a fast-paced environment.

• Competitive Tax-Free Salary Package
• Performance-based bonus structure
• Comprehensive health insurance

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Vice President, Sponsorship and Strategic Partnerships

Location: UAE

Hanson Search MENA is partnering with a major global corporate organisation in the UAE to appoint a Vice President of Sponsorship and Strategic Partnerships. This senior leadership role will drive the vision, direction, and delivery of high-impact sponsorship and partnership programmes that enhance brand presence, build influential relationships, and generate measurable business value.

Lead Sponsorship and Strategic Partnership Strategy

As the sponsorship and partnerships lead, you will design and implement a forward-thinking strategy that supports the organisation’s brand and commercial objectives. You will identify and secure world-class opportunities, lead high-level negotiations, and oversee the activation of assets across multiple channels to ensure maximum impact and brand alignment.

Key Responsibilities of a VP of Sponsorship

• Create and implement a comprehensive sponsorship and partnerships strategy that supports both brand positioning and business priorities.
• Lead negotiations to secure high-value agreements and ensure strong commercial outcomes.
• Manage the delivery and activation of assets and campaigns to engage both internal and external audiences.
• Build and nurture relationships with senior stakeholders, partners, and industry leaders.
• Inspire, lead, and develop a team to deliver excellence across all sponsorship and partnership activities.

Ideal Background for a VP of Sponsorship and Partnerships

• Demonstrated success in delivering major sponsorship and partnership programmes for large, complex organisations.
• Experience in either B2B or B2C environments, ideally within organisations operating at both a regional (UAE) and global scale.
• Proven leadership skills, with a track record of managing teams and collaborating effectively with colleagues across marketing and communications functions.
• Strong strategic thinking, negotiation ability, and a creative approach to maximising return on investment.
• Outstanding relationship-building and communication skills, capable of operating at the most senior levels.

We welcome applications from candidates based globally, provided you have proven experience in the UAE sponsorship landscape at some stage in your career.

Hanson Search is a leading talent advisory and executive search consultancy with consultants based across the UAE , UK , USA , and Europe . We specialise in business-critical roles that drive revenue, reputation, and risk, with dedicated teams in Communications , Government Relations , Financial Communications , Public Affairs , Marketing , Digital Marketing , Sustainability , Investor Relations , and C-Suite recruitment.

Please click here to find out more about Hanson Search .

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. You can access our Diversity and Inclusion Policy here .

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Ziina is looking for a Strategic Partnerships Manager to join our team. This role is an exciting opportunity to lead and scale Ziina’s Partnership function. You will be responsible for conceptualizing and executing creative campaigns with our partners, with the goal of unlocking new audiences, building brand equity, and driving product growth.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with partners to conceptualize and execute high-impact activation campaigns
• Develop multi-layered strategic marketing plans with long-term impact
• Leverage partner customer bases to create mutually beneficial value propositions
• Build business cases to quantify ROI on proposed campaigns and tie outcomes to core business KPIs
• Collaborate with product, brand, and growth teams to integrate partnerships across the broader marketing mix
• Ensure continued value and engagement across the partnership portfolio
• Monitor and report on campaign performance, using data to iterate and improve
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders at partner organizations
• Stay on top of emerging trends in fintech, brand collaborations, and partner marketing best practices

Requirements:

• Bring 4+ years of experience in partner marketing, strategic partnerships or business development roles
• Combine strong creative instincts with the ability to turn ideas into actionable partnerships
• Possess a commercial mindset and experience building and presenting business cases
• Collaborate effectively and manage a wide range of stakeholders with ease
• Communicate clearly and confidently, both in writing and speaking
• Are analytical and data-driven, with the ability to turn performance data into insight
• Thrive in ambiguity and bring structure to complex projects
• Take initiative and show strong ownership in driving work forward
• Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

Nice to Have:

• A background in marketing or exposure to working very closely with this group
• A deep passion for fintech, startups, and the Middle East market
• The ability to zoom out for strategic clarity while obsessing over the details

About Ziina

Ziina’s mission is to bring financial freedom to every person in the Middle East. We are building MENA’s consumer and SMB financial platform, starting with a peer-to-peer and merchant wallet. Our team have backgrounds from Apple, Uber, Stripe, Klarna, Revolut, Yandex, and Nubank. Ziina’s payments volumes have grown by 10x YoY for the last two years. The team have built a product that is beloved by the UAE and is the recipient of 8 international design awards, including the Red Dot Award and the UX Design Award. Our last round was a $22 million Series A from top-tier investors globally including Altos Ventures, Fintech Collective, Activant, Long Journey Ventures and Y Combinator. Our angel investors include early employees and executives at Revolut, Stripe, Venmo, Brex, Checkout.com, Notion, and Deel.

Join us in shaping the future of financial freedom. Every role here is an opportunity to make a real impact. Let’s build something that matters—together.

Ziina is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.

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About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership,enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose - Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

Get to Know our Team

StrategicPartnershipsis a team of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agodaand other Booking Holdings brands’ partnersand promote our top and bottom-line growth. We design tailored business and product solutions with our partners and help them generate measurable value. Membersof our team are empowered and supported to grow their market(s) or accounts. We develop win-win relationships andleverage both Agodaand Booking Holdings’ unique travel product portfolio and tech solutions to bring our partners the advantagestheyseek. Utilizing ourstrong brand and resources, we build new channelsto increase the visibility of Agoda and the other group companies, introducing more travelersto our great productsandservices and delivering significant revenues to the overall business.

The Opportunity

Agoda is looking for a seasoned account manager with strong commercial acumen to join our Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) team and successfully grow, optimize and deliver on campaigns for DMOs and Tourism Boards worldwide.

The main goal for a successful candidate would be to help destinations (country / region or city level) get more visitors and travel spend using Agoda’s range of solutions. This position offers a dynamic role where you help grow and optimize your portfolio of accounts but also project manage large campaigns internally, collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders to deliver growth for partners and Agoda. The role involves a mix of stakeholder management, effective communication, and teamwork skills.

In this Role, you'll get to:

• Account Ownership & Optimization: End-to-End commercial ownership, contributing to and executing on the account strategy, while handling commercial and operational enquiries from internal and external stakeholders. Adopts a problem-solving approach and leverages data and analytical skills to identify and implement optimization opportunities.
• Strategic Program Management: manage implementation and roll-out of key partner initiatives, including management of main internal stakeholders to successfully prioritize, deliver and communicate on all operational aspects of the initiatives. Main internal stakeholders include various team members from across different departments such as Marketing, Product, Legal, Tax, Finance, etc;
• Performance reporting: monitoring campaign performance, prepare internal and external reports, including presentations and updates on business performance;
• Optimization & Innovation: understand technical and operational requirements from both partner and internal teams to develop new solutions, tailor initiatives and maximize ROI;
• Excellent transverse communication: communicates effectively within the organization from working levels to C-Forum, with topics covering the following but not limited to project status & key updates, roadblocks, technical limitations, operational milestones and other reports. Able to assess effectively key issues, measure their impact on ROI, and escalate them in a timely manner to relevant stakeholders.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Proven track record, with 5-10 years of work experience in account management, project management, sales operations field
• Prior experience navigating complex sales cycle end-to-end, including RFPs, government-funded processes, through to contract negotiations and closing
• Professional English with strong communication skills
• Growth mindset with a professional “can-do attitude”
• Good problem-solving skills. Attention to detail with critical thinking and a solution-focused mindset
• Data-driven decision-making with the ability to sell and tell stories using data and numerical insights. Ability to adjust and write queries in SQL to build own business cases.
• Strong organizational abilities, comfortable making prioritization decisions, with the ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders at all levels

It's Great if you have

• Experience working with Tourism boards and/or Government bodies
• Additional languages - Arabic and/or one of major Asian languages is preferred is a plus

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At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.

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We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.

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Specialist, Account Management page is loaded Specialist, Account Management Apply locations Dubai time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R7700

Company Description

We’re Checkout.com – you might not know our name, but companies like eBay, ASOS, Klarna, Uber Eats, and Sony do. That moment when you check out online? We make it happen.

Checkout.com is where the world checks out. Our global network powers billions of transactions every year, making money move without making a fuss. We spent years perfecting a service most people will never notice. Because when digital payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why.

With 19 offices spanning six continents, we feel at home everywhere – but London is our HQ. Wherever our people work their magic, they’re fast-moving, performance-obsessed, and driven by being better every day. Ideal. Because a role here isn’t just another job; it’s a career-defining opportunity to build the future of fintech.

Job Description

Checkout.com is actively looking for a strategic-thinking, resourceful and highly driven Account Manager to nurture and maintain long-term relationships with our Enterprise merchants. This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most successful FinTech companies at a turning point of its global expansion.

You will be the business advisor and main point of contact to a merchant post integration process. You will act as the voice of our product and ambassador of our brand, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to our merchants. Key for success here will be the ability to apply your business savvy knowledge and the required gravitas to effectively communicate and influence at all levels to achieve win-win scenarios and promote the value proposition.

The ideal candidate is an independent, hard-working individual, able to stand out in an entrepreneurial environment and excel through self-motivation and personal drive. If you are eager to join a growing, fast-paced, start-up company and contribute to crafting its future, this is the role for you to make a difference.

What you’ll be doing:

• Crafting merchant specific account development plans focusing on revenue generation

• Building high touch, consultative and positive relationships with our merchants through regular and open communications

• Delivering expertise, education, and guidance to merchants as they craft and complete a comprehensive, global payments strategy.

• Analyse merchant’s performance and provide recommendations to improve the payment flow /revenue

• Focusing on exceeding strategic and financial targets of our merchants by analysing active payment products, transaction volumes, and service levels

• Understanding the intricacies of our products, services and partner networks thoroughly to leverage as needed to meet our merchants’ needs

• Collaborating with various teams across the company (e.g. Sales, Integration, Support, Legal, Engineering) to ensure an outstanding merchant experience

About you:

• Good knowledge of today’s major e-commerce and payments technologies, players and future trends

• 2+ years of experience working in a PSP, Acquirer or similar

• Experience in a B2B Enterprise Account Management and/or Relationship Management role in the FinTech and/or Payments industry

• A strategic problem solver with excellent project management skills

• Customer driven and able to establish robust relationships with assigned customer base

• Multifaceted approach adapting to changing requirements with the ability to balance multiple opportunities

• Proven consultative sales abilities and proven ability to work well in a fast-paced environment, collaborating across multiple departments and influencing all levels within an external organisation
  

Bring all of you to work

We create the conditions for high performers to thrive – through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity – and where your growth is in your hands.

We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.

It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.

Life at Checkout.com

We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.

Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.

For a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com, follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram

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Overview

At Trendyol Core Commerce, we build innovative, data-driven strategies that power sustainable growth and global expansion.

From seller experience to new market launches, we turn insights into action—fast. Our cross-functional teams shape the future of commerce with bold ideas, real-time impact, and a deep sense of ownership. In a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we grow together—as individuals and as a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute portfolio strategy, driving growth in selected categories.
• Recruit and onboard high-potential suppliers, meeting quarterly targets.
• Negotiate deals, manage P&L, and oversee inventory and pricing.
• Provide data-driven insights and advice to optimize supplier success.
• Track and report business development results, analyzing data.
• Lead projects to enhance customer and partner experiences.
• Conduct strategic meetings with suppliers to align objectives.
• Coordinate and collaborate across different teams and locations to ensure smooth execution of projects and initiatives.

Expected Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree preferably in Engineering, Management, Business or related fields.
• Extensive experience in business development or sales, preferably in an e-commerce or a tech company, with a focus on Fashion.
• Proficiency in conducting market research to identify potential vendors, assess their product offerings, and evaluate their suitability for partnership.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate terms, contracts, and pricing with potential vendors to secure favorable agreements for both parties.
• Strong experience in coordinating with cross-functional and cross-location teams, acting as a key bridge to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Fluency in English and Arabic communication, both written and verbal.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working model with flexibility: a schedule that helps you find the right balance between flexibility and team bonding, including work-from-abroad opportunities and a summer working model.
• Personalised training allowance and learning opportunities: Use your annual budget for any training or conference of your choice, explore our Learning Management System (LMS) anytime, and join in-person learning sessions offered throughout the year.
• Responsibility from day one: Take full ownership from the start in a culture where every voice is heard and valued.
• A diverse, international team: Collaborate with global peers across our offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, Dubai, and beyond, in a startup-spirited and collaborative environment.
• Opportunities to grow with the best: Tackle meaningful challenges, develop through hands-on experience, and grow with the support of expert guidance and global mentoring.
• Meaningful connections beyond tasks: Be part of team rituals, events, and social activities that help us stay connected and inspired.

Take the Next Step

If this role excites you, apply today, we look forward to taking the next step with you.

Want to get to know the team better first? Explore our Career Website, LinkedIn, or YouTube to learn more about #LifeatTrendyol and how we work.

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Overview

Our client is a global digital assurance company specializing in quality engineering and testing solutions for enterprises across banking, financial services, insurance, retail, and telecom sectors. It offers services such as performance testing, robotic process automation, and customer experience monitoring to support digital transformation initiatives. This role focuses on the BFSI segment only.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Management:
  • Develop and execute multi-year strategic account plans for each client, mapping our service capabilities to their long-term business goals.
  • Own the account P&L, including revenue forecasting, profitability management, and achievement of annual revenue and booking targets.
  • Focus on "farming" and mining existing accounts for new growth opportunities, cross-selling, and up-selling our full suite of QE services.
• Executive Relationship Management:
  • Cultivate and maintain deep, long-term relationships with key client stakeholders, from C-level executives (CIO, CTO, CDO) to VPs and Directors of business and technology units.
  • Act as the primary executive point of contact and the 'face of the company' for your accounts, ensuring a seamless client experience.
  • Drive client satisfaction (CSAT) and loyalty, acting as an escalation point to ensure service delivery excellence and the resolution of any issues.
• Business Development & Consultative Selling:
  • Lead the entire sales cycle for new opportunities within your accounts, from opportunity identification and qualification to proposal development, negotiation, and closure.
  • Collaborate closely with pre-sales, solution architects, and delivery teams to craft compelling, bespoke solutions that address specific client challenges.
  • Negotiate large-scale, complex, multi-year outsourcing contracts, statements of work (SOWs), and Master Services Agreements (MSAs).
• Domain Expertise & Thought Leadership:
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on Quality Engineering trends and their application within the banking sector (e.g., Open Banking, Digital Banking, Core Banking Modernization, Cybersecurity).
  • Understand the unique regulatory and business landscape of the Middle East banking industry
  • Represent the company at industry forums, conferences, and executive roundtables.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience: A minimum of 12-15 years of experience in IT services sales, consulting, or account management.
• Industry Focus: At least 7+ years of recent, demonstrable experience managing and growing large strategic accounts within the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) sector in the Middle East.
• Geographic Expertise: A proven track record of success and deep-rooted professional networks in key GCC markets, specifically the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• Service Offering Knowledge: Strong understanding of the IT outsourcing landscape. Specific experience selling or managing services in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, Test Automation, or Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) is essential.
• Sales Acumen: Verifiable track record of consistently achieving and exceeding multi-million dollar annual revenue targets (USD10Mn+).
• C-Level Presence: Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with the gravitas to engage and build credibility with senior executives.
• Cultural Awareness: High degree of cultural sensitivity and experience navigating the business etiquette and relationship-driven culture of the Middle East.
• Language: Full professional fluency in English is mandatory.

Desirable Skills & Qualifications

• Education: An MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Technical Acumen: Direct experience with banking technology platforms (e.g., Core Banking Systems like Temenos T24, Finacle; Digital Banking platforms) is a plus
• Relationships: Pre-existing, transferable C-level relationships within major banks in the UAE

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Link to Privacy Policy Link to Cookie PolicySenior Specialist, Technical Account Management page is loaded# Senior Specialist, Technical Account Managementlocations: Dubaitime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R7995***Company Description***Checkout.com is where the world checks out. Our global network powers billions of transactions every year, making money move without making a fuss. We spent years perfecting a service most people will never notice. Because when digital payments just work, businesses grow, customers stay, and no one stops to think about why.With 19 offices spanning six continents, we feel at home everywhere – but London is our HQ. Wherever our people work their magic, they’re fast-moving, performance-obsessed, and driven by being better every day. Ideal. Because a role here isn’t just another job; it’s a career-defining opportunity to build the future of fintech.***Job Description***TO BE FINALISED***The Role***In Enterprise Technical Account Management (TAM), you will be instrumental in building and maintaining strategic relationships with key clients, ensuring their satisfaction by resolving their technical issues, optimizing their payment solutions and delivering exceptional service with your technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills.***What you’ll be doing:*** **Relationship Management: Build and nurture long-term relationships with key clients, serving as their primary point of contact for technical matters.*** **Customer Success: Understand our clients' business needs and goals, proactively identify opportunities to optimize their payment solutions, and ensure successful adoption and utilization of our products.*** **Technical Support: Provide expert guidance and troubleshooting assistance to clients, addressing their technical inquiries, resolving issues promptly, and ensuring minimal disruption to their payment infrastructure through deep understanding of their integrations and how our products work together.*** **Training and Demo: Help upselling efforts with merchant demonstrations and technical training - hold workshops and refreshers on our product offering to keep clients up-to-date with new features and deliverables.*** **Project Management: Lead and coordinate the addition of new payment solutions as well as technical migrations for clients as they expand with Checkout.com, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery within agreed timelines and specifications.*** **Product Feedback: Act as a conduit between clients and internal teams, gathering customer feedback, documenting feature requests, and providing client derived insights to enable continuous improvement of our product roadmap.*** **Market Intelligence: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes in the payments landscape, sharing relevant insights with clients to help them navigate the evolving landscape.***Qualifications*** **4+ years of experience in a technical role with experience managing internal and external stakeholders. This ideally includes effective presentation skills.*** **Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Economics, Statistics) is desirable or equivalent practical experience in internet technologies and technical processes.*** **Familiarity with Payments industry regulations and technical frameworks (3DS, SCA, AVS, MIT)*** **Familiarity with API-based integration methods and related tools/frameworks*** **Familiarity with front and back end technologies (i.e. JavaScript, CSS, HTML etc)*** **Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.*** **Results-oriented approach with a focus on delivering exceptional customer satisfaction.*** **Knowledge of payments technology, compliance standards, and security protocols related to payments (e.g., PCI-DSS, PSD2) is a plus.*** **Willingness to travel occasionally to client sites as required.***Bring all of you to work***We create the conditions for high performers to thrive – through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity – and where your growth is in your hands.We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.***Life at Checkout.com***We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.For a closer look at daily life at Checkout.com, follow us on and #J-18808-Ljbffr

The Role
The Strategic Account Partner (VP level) will be responsible for the complete ownership (P&L) of a portfolio of 2-4 strategic banking accounts in the ME. Your mission is to move beyond a vendor relationship to become a deeply embedded strategic partner. You will be building C-level connections, understanding the client's business imperatives, and proactively identifying opportunities to drive value and growth through world-class QE solutions. Client Details Our client is a global digital assurance company specializing in quality engineering and testing solutions for enterprises across banking, financial services, insurance, retail, and telecom sectors. It offers services such as performance testing, robotic process automation, and customer experience monitoring to support digital transformation initiatives. This role focuses on the BFSI segment only. Description Strategic Account Management: * Develop and execute multi-year strategic account plans for each client, mapping our service capabilities to their long-term business goals. * Own the account P&L, including revenue forecasting, profitability management, and achievement of annual revenue and booking targets. * Focus on "farming" and mining existing accounts for new growth opportunities, cross-selling, and up-selling our full suite of QE services. Executive Relationship Management: * Cultivate and maintain deep, long-term relationships with key client stakeholders, from C-level executives (CIO, CTO, CDO) to VPs and Directors of business and technology units. * Act as the primary executive point of contact and the 'face of the company' for your accounts, ensuring a seamless client experience. * Drive client satisfaction (CSAT) and loyalty, acting as an escalation point to ensure service delivery excellence and the resolution of any issues. Business Development & Consultative Selling: * Lead the entire sales cycle for new opportunities within your accounts, from opportunity identification and qualification to proposal development, negotiation, and closure. * Collaborate closely with pre-sales, solution architects, and delivery teams to craft compelling, bespoke solutions that address specific client challenges. * Negotiate large-scale, complex, multi-year outsourcing contracts, statements of work (SOWs), and Master Services Agreements (MSAs). Domain Expertise & Thought Leadership: * Serve as a subject matter expert on Quality Engineering trends and their application within the banking sector (e.g., Open Banking, Digital Banking, Core Banking Modernization, Cybersecurity). * Understand the unique regulatory and business landscape of the Middle East banking industry * Represent the company at industry forums, conferences, and executive roundtables. Job Offer * A highly competitive compensation package, including a lucrative, performance-based incentive plan. * The opportunity to take a leadership role and shape our growth strategy in a key global market. * High visibility and direct impact on the company's success in the region. * A dynamic, entrepreneurial, and collaborative work culture that rewards innovation and strategic thinking.

Requirements
* Experience: A minimum of 12-15 years of experience in IT services sales, consulting, or account management. * Industry Focus: At least 7+ years of recent, demonstrable experience managing and growing large strategic accounts within the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) sector in the Middle East. * Geographic Expertise: A proven track record of success and deep-rooted professional networks in key GCC markets, specifically the United Arab Emirates (UAE) * Service Offering Knowledge: Strong understanding of the IT outsourcing landscape. Specific experience selling or managing services in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, Test Automation, or Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) is essential. * Sales Acumen: Verifiable track record of consistently achieving and exceeding multi-million dollar annual revenue targets (USD10Mn+). * C-Level Presence: Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with the gravitas to engage and build credibility with senior executives. * Cultural Awareness: High degree of cultural sensitivity and experience navigating the business etiquette and relationship-driven culture of the Middle East. * Language: Full professional fluency in English is mandatory. Desirable Skills & Qualifications * Education: An MBA or other relevant advanced degree. * Technical Acumen: Direct experience with banking technology platforms (e.g.

About the company
Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world. The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of: Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.