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Director, Strategic Partnerships & Partner Sales, Saudi Arabia

Mastercard Riyadh senior full-time

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Description

Mastercard is seeking a Director, Strategic Partnerships & Partner Sales, Saudi Arabia to build and scale its partner-led business in the Kingdom.

The successful candidate will create new routes to market and design partnership propositions that bring Mastercard capabilities to new customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Own growth: Lead the Saudi partner-sales strategy and deliver a revenue target through partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities.
  • Create opportunities: Identify where Mastercard capabilities can be embedded, co-sold, or distributed through partner platforms and services.
  • Shape propositions: Turn strategic discussions into clear use cases, target customers, and commercial models.
  • Engage at senior levels: Build trusted relationships with founders, C-suite executives, and senior decision-makers.
  • Drive execution: Lead joint business plans, account mapping, negotiations, and partner enablement.
  • Collaborate across Mastercard: Work with product, sales, legal, finance, marketing, and delivery teams.
  • Scale what works: Turn successful use cases into repeatable commercial plays.

Requirements:

  • Extensive experience in strategic partnerships, partner sales, business development, platform sales, or enterprise technology.
  • A proven record of originating and closing partner-led business while owning a commercial target.
  • Strong knowledge of the Saudi market and an established network.
  • Experience structuring partnerships and handling complex enterprise or government sales cycles.
  • An entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Strong commercial judgment.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with fluency in Arabic and English.
  • A university degree or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits: No benefits mentioned.

This is a chance to shape how Mastercard grows with Saudi Arabia's technology, AI, data, and digital-transformation ecosystem.

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