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At Times Internet, we build premium digital products that simplify and enhance the everyday lives of people.

We are India's largest digital products company with a presence in a wide range of categories across news, entertainment, marketplaces, and transactions.

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We are excited by new possibilities and look forward to bringing new products, ideas, and technologies that help people make the most of every day.

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About Financial services vertical

At the Financial services business, we intend to build a comprehensive bouquet of financial products to monetise the large spectrum of customer base of Times Group.

In order to achieve this, we plan to foray into products like co-branded credit cards, marketplace for proprietary cards, Loan products etc.

We intend to achieve a north star metrics of becoming a preferential platform for all financial needs of a customer

Designation:
Monetisation & Financial Institution partnerships – Financial Services


Location:
Gurgaon/Mumbai

Job Purpose

This role will primarily be responsible to maintain partnerships with banks, bureau & service providers, drive growth strategy and Inorganic/EMI Spends for the Credit Card Portfolio.

The broad responsibility is to understand the business intricacies with FIs, develop and implement business strategies for driving domestic & International Spends on co-branded cards and help reach the assigned targets.

In order to successfully reach their goal, the individual needs to closely work with multiple teams of both external & internal stakeholders including Product, Marketing & branding,Tech, UX, Operations, Analytics, Risk/Policy and Customer Service & Outbound calling teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Drive Key spends projects —from conception to launch.
• Digital Initiatives to drive spends
• Identifying the gaps, initiating and driving projects for automating processes, creation of user journeys (App & Website)
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative insights to develop hypotheses and build customer offers and communication plan
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders at partner banks, includisenior executives, business leaders, and relationship managers
• Drive the development and launch of innovative products, services, and solutions in collaboration with financial institution partners.
• Monitor and analyze key performance metrics to track the success of partnership initiatives and optimize performance
• Stay abreast of industry trends, regulatory developments, and competitive landscape to inform partnership strategies and decisionmaking
• Work with Marketing team of bank & times group on customer communication for offers and EMI products
• Partner with engineers, designers, marketing, customer operations, strategy and analytics teams to rapidly develop and deliver projects
• Build strong relations with internal & external stakeholders
• Align closely with Customer Service to build and maintain a strong customer experience
• Ideate innovative acquisition concepts

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• MBA from a tier 1 institute with 4+ years of business development, partnerships, or sales experience in fastpaced growth environment in banks, fintechs or platforms with cobranded cards
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of working in credit cards, payments, e commerce, Fintech and/or technology enabled commerce businesses
• Experience in driving card spends, acquiring strategy, or payment partnerships with a deep understanding of the credit card industry and India market landscape. Relationships across key players would be valuable.
• Own and manage partnerships, drive business outcomes, and coordinate internal resources towards delivery of partnership goals. Develop, manage and deliver on account plans.
• Experience of successfully managing strategic clients and tracking clientcentric strategies within a matrixed organization.
• Solution focused: connect the dots and leverage best practices, unafraid to make timely decisions in ambiguous, high pressure situations, quick to adjust/recover and reset priorities
• Positive, collaborative attitude, Prolific communicator
• Ambitious team player with the ability to manage the internal & external partners requirements and tasks in time sensitive situations
• Market Orientation: Ability to deeply understand market trends, partner ecosystems, and competitive strategies
• Business Acumen: Comfort with business strategy, portfolio prioritization, go to market and tracking key performance indicators, strong problemsolving skills
• Soft Skills: Be a team player and exercise leadership without authority, communicate effectively in different contexts
• Business Vision: Growth in acceptance and spends for Credit Cards products
• Customer Focus: Deep dive in user behavior by talking to real customers, analyzing data and seeing the products used in the real world
• Execution mindset: Understand the problems we are trying to solve and work closely with engineers, designers, data scientists, and other functions to define, iterate and ship an awesome sustainable product
• Communication: Build constructive relationships, communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, and have a great time doing it