# Optimization Manager

**Company**: Adyen
**Location**: Amsterdam
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Adyen is seeking a strategic and analytical Optimization Manager to join our Performance Optimization team in Amsterdam. In this role, you will be responsible for managing full-funnel payment performance to drive tangible business impact and optimize merchant success at scale.

You will act as a key partner to our merchants, leveraging data-driven insights to enhance their payment ecosystems. Success in this position requires a blend of excellent project management skills and the ability to collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including Product, Commercial, and Data Analytics, within a fast-paced and global environment.

The ideal candidate possesses deep payments expertise, a strong focus on risk and fraud prevention, and the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with commercial teams to drive Adyen’s value proposition and merchant adoption, using data-driven insights to strengthen conversations

- Lead high-level customer discussions, enable commercial teams with tools/trainings, and act as a payment optimization SME across risk, fraud, conversion, and cost efficiency

- Analyze merchant portfolios and payment data to identify optimization opportunities, run playbooks, and drive performance and risk improvements

- Identify and support adoption of Adyen products in collaboration with Product teams

- Build dashboards/tools and scalable analytical solutions from large datasets to generate actionable insights

- Operate with autonomy and a global, strategic perspective across high-value customers and cross-functional teams

- Support team operations, mentor team members, and build strong relationships with regional customers and stakeholders

Requirements:

- 5+ years’ experience in Risk & Fraud, Payments Performance, Data Analytics, Technical Account roles, or similar within fintech/payments, with strong understanding of regional payments landscape

- Good stakeholder management across customers and cross-functional teams, with an ownership mindset and ability to prioritize and execute independently

- Comfortable working in fast-paced, global, cross-functional environments with a continuous improvement mindset

- Strong data analysis skills with experience handling complex datasets; BI tools is a plus

- Excellent communication skills in English, able to simplify complex topics for both technical and non-technical audiences

## Skills

### Required
- payments
- risk and fraud prevention
- data analysis
- project management
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- BI tools
- English

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