Summary

Strategic Partnerships Director is responsible for maintaining professional and productive relationships with our suppliers, but also identifying and proposing new suppliers. They will actively work on negotiating better termination rates and terms of business and acts as account manager for strategic suppliers in their portfolio including all administrative tasks.

Key responsibilities

• Supplier onboarding pipeline development and maintenance. Identifies, negotiates, and connects new suppliers in order to reduce cost of termination and improves company competitiveness.
• Maintains high profile partnership relations with strategic supplier accounts e.g. – operator groups, regional and local suppliers.
• Responsible for maintaining and improving competitive cost structure for assigned region and/or portfolio of supplier accounts and has DM target that is part of company budget.
• Acts as escalation point for all important issues with appropriate contact our vendor’s side, in both directions.
• Keeping up with all particularities for commercial, regulatory, and other relevant changes in the industry and market. Communicates with appropriate internal stakeholders in timely manner for appropriate attention and actions.
• Accountable for keeping accurate costs for SMS termination in our system, as related to suppliers assigned in portfolio.
• Closely collaborates with accounting team on checking and approving vendor invoices. Reconciliation of any discrepancies with vendors if necessary.
• Work with Pricing, Customer Support, Network Ops and other teams on day-to-day basis where collaboration is required for handling of operational tasks and challenges.
• Active engagement on improvement and maintenance of Routing related processes, procedures, policies and tools.
• Closely collaborates with Legal team while working on agreements with new suppliers and addendums with existing ones.
• Attends industry events to maintain relationship with existing suppliers, to discover new ones. Represents TeleSign professionally.

Essential requirements

• Excellent negotiation, presentation and communication skills;
• Business acumen and financial literacy;
• Fluent in English, verbal and written, additional language knowledge is a plus;
• Advanced knowledge of SMS industry, market and competition;
• Strong network of contacts within SMS industry;
• University degree (preferably in Economics/Applied Sciences/ICT);
• 4+ years or experience working in SMS industry is a must.

We are offering

• Development opportunities.
• Ability to work with highly skilled team of experts.
• Challenging but also very friendly and fun working environment.
• Good compensation package - Competitive € salary plus attractive benefits.
• And much, much more.

About TeleSign

TeleSign connects and protects online experiences with sophisticated customer identity and engagement solutions. Through APIs that deliver user verification, data insights, and communications we solve today’s unique customer challenges by bridging businesses to the complex world of global telecommunications.

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