Country Manager (Payments)

Country Manager (Payments)

The Country Manager – Philippines is accountable for supporting the development and execution of the overall business development, marketing, and operations strategy for the designated region in conjunction with local and regional teams. The incumbent is accountable for the regional P&L, maximizing market penetration, profitable transaction volumes, and team line management.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develops and manages the implementation of the regional strategy, ensuring successful business growth in both the short and long term.
• Sets, manages, and ensures achievement of regional budgets in collaboration with line manager.
• Ensures that a professional, well-led, and well-motivated team is developed and continues to develop, and that skills and potential are maximized.
• In conjunction with the line manager, I will ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and that clear objectives and priorities are set in line with corporate goals.
• Ensure that a ‘delivery to outcome and deadline’ culture is created and maintained within the team.
• Ensures an ongoing audit of resources and skills are undertaken and areas of weakness or defined resource gaps are addressed promptly.
• Identifies and proactively courts potential new business partners.
• Actively facilitates the contractual arrangements on appropriate commercial terms.
• Manages the ongoing maintenance of key accounts or super-agents, ensuring profitable transaction growth.

Key Qualifications

• Higher education degree
• A minimum of 10 years of managerial experience plus 5 years of executive level experience in Banking, Financial Services and/or Payment Business; proven experience in sales leadership roles, with a track record of exceeding sales targets.
• Demonstrated experience of operating at a similar level of seniority.
• Experienced in relationship management.
• Excellent presentational skills - able to give a polished presentation in a variety of formats, informally and formally.
• Strong commercial acumen – able to identify and work with key business partners to maximize business results.
• Experience in the payments/financial services domain is highly preferred.

Interested candidates can share their CVs with michael@socium.team for a confidential discussion.