Senior Scheme Relationship Manager

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>You’ll be part of the Nexi organization driving innovation excellence and helping to build products, processes and environments of the future. We value the “voice of our customer” and use it to share learnings about interactions to help to shape our strategy to be the European Payments Champion.  </p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>As an established and successful senior scheme relationship manager, you’ll be charged with driving international schemes relationships maximising economic output including identifying new opportunities across all the regions as well as centrally. </p><p>You will be a senior member of a central team managing the overall relations with the international schemes for both the issuing and the acquiring.</p><p>You'll define and execute Nexi’s pan European scheme governance and relations, providing the framework for Nexi’s go to market scheme aligned roadmap across both issuing and acquiring and all products and segments. You'll also set up and maintain internal Nexi awareness and understanding of the scheme aligned roadmap, governance and relations, working closely across Nexi business units as well as Group functions.</p><p>To be successful you need to have significant and proven experience in Mastercard/Visa relationship management in a large issuer and/or acquirer.</p><p>The ideal candidate for this role has the drive to constantly improve scheme economies and relations, and seeks to inform and influence at both Nexi and Scheme senior management / executive level.</p><p><strong>Position can be based  in one of our offices cross Europe in Nordics (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway), or Italy or Germany with hybrid way of working.</strong></p><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><p>In this role, you will have the opportunity to:</p><ul><li>Define and develop new global and regional Nexi/scheme aligned opportunities</li><li>Define and develop Nexi scheme governance and relations</li><li>Establish Nexi as a market leader in this area.</li><li>Work across Nexi Group and business units</li><li>Drive continuous improvement around scheme governance and relations </li><li>Partner closely with internal teams as required</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p>Your professional skills and experience form most of your qualifications, but it’s also your personality that makes the difference at Nexi. Above all, we value your drive and willingness to cooperate with passionate colleagues as well as wanting to develop yourself. We appreciate ambitious and result-oriented colleagues that work proactively and with a can-do attitude. Additionally, we value your excellent communication skills and ability to work across businesses and teams in multiple countries. You work with a structured mindset and with a good sense of details and yet still with high attention on implementation and deadlines. You are vigorous, you hold a high level of integrity and your mindset is positive and collegial.</p><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><p>The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:</p><ul><li>Excellent management qualities and skills</li><li>Significant understanding of Mastercard/Visa businesses and relations</li><li>5+ years experience working with scheme relationships in a complex and dynamic set-up, preferably within payments</li><li>Ability to set up Nexi pan EU/regional scheme governance and relations</li><li>Ability to drive smart strategic decisions, incorporating input from many sources including stakeholders, market data, and business priorities.</li><li>Culture champion, helping to foster an environment of trust and empathy, helping to motivate teams (internally, and externally) to do their best work.</li><li>The ability to work across teams and business units to achieve collective goals.</li></ul><p>Attributes: </p><ul><li>Interest and ability to analyse and immerse in complex material</li><li>Commercial understanding and desire to find solutions </li><li>Results-oriented with the ability to work independently </li><li>Ability to forge strong working relationships</li><li>Strong analytical skills and an ability to identify and mitigate risks</li><li>An international perspective with the ability to work across cultures and in a rapidly evolving environment</li></ul><h3>Additional Information</h3><p>Apply with your CV as soon as possible and join our fantastic team, and if you want, you can attach a short video clip. </p><p>You can meet more of our personalities by visiting our careers page: <a href="https://www.nets.eu/careers/employees/Pages/default.aspx"><strong>Meet some of our personalities</strong></a></p><p>We conduct background checks on relevant candidates through our partner Semac, <a href="http://www.semac.no/"><strong>www.semac.no</strong></a></p>