# Director, Strategic Partnerships & Partner Sales, Saudi Arabia

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Riyadh
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Finance

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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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## Skills

### Required
- strategic partnerships
- partner sales
- business development
- platform sales
- enterprise technology
- Arabic
- English

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