Compensation: SAR 30,000 per month
Contract: 1-year contract
Location: Saudi Arabia
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Card Partnerships & Alliances professional to identify, develop, negotiate, and manage strategic partnerships that enhance the card value proposition and drive customer acquisition, engagement, retention, and spend.
The ideal candidate will have 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and develop strategic partnerships with merchants, lifestyle brands, travel providers, retail groups, hospitality companies, e-commerce platforms, and loyalty providers.
- Build partnerships that enhance the card proposition and deliver meaningful customer benefits.
- Support card acquisition, activation, usage, engagement, and retention initiatives.
- Develop and implement benefit platforms, promotional offers, rewards propositions, and customer engagement programs.
- Lead commercial negotiations, including partner agreements, commercial terms, campaign mechanics, and service-level expectations.
- Manage partner relationships from initial engagement through campaign delivery and ongoing optimization.
- Coordinate with internal teams including Product, Marketing, Digital, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, and Operations to ensure successful execution.
- Monitor and report on campaign performance, customer uptake, spend uplift, ROI, and partner contribution.
- Identify opportunities to expand and optimize the partnership ecosystem based on customer behavior, market trends, and business objectives.
- Ensure campaigns and partner initiatives are delivered on time and in line with agreed commercial and operational requirements.
Required Experience
- 5–7 years of relevant experience in partnerships, alliances, business development, or marketing partnerships.
- Experience within one or more of the following sectors is preferred:
- Card issuing / banking
- Payments
- Fintech
- Loyalty programs
- Marketing agencies
- Demonstrated experience building and managing partnerships across retail, travel, hospitality, lifestyle, e-commerce, and merchant ecosystems.
- Experience supporting customer acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and spend-growth initiatives.
- Strong commercial negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working cross-functionally with product, marketing, digital, legal, compliance, procurement, and operations teams.
Communication & Market Requirements
- Strong marketing communication and presentation skills, including campaign messaging, customer communications, partner proposals, and business presentations.
- Fluency in both Arabic and English is required.
- GCC or Saudi Arabia market experience is strongly preferred, particularly experience with:
- Regional merchant partnerships
- Banking and card campaigns
- Local customer engagement initiatives
- Saudi/GCC consumer and lifestyle brands
Ideal Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will combine strategic partnership development, commercial negotiation, marketing expertise, and hands-on execution. They should be comfortable managing external partners while coordinating multiple internal stakeholders to deliver measurable commercial and customer outcomes.