Senior Strategic Partnership Manager - Payments

About the role

The Senior Strategic Partnership Manager will own Vinted Pay's external partner stack across the entire transaction lifecycle. This role involves managing relationships, optimizing operating models for performance and cost, and leading commercial negotiations to drive business impact. You will work at the intersection of business, product, engineering, finance, and legal to build a competitive partner framework.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary commercial and strategic owner for the Vinted Pay and Marketplace partner ecosystem.
• Architect a multi-provider operating model to foster healthy supplier competition and maintain best-in-class terms.
• Lead quarterly business reviews and enforce rigorous SLAs and technical performance targets.
• Evaluate emerging payment rails to expand conversion and localize buyer checkout.
• Maximize authorization rates by leveraging expertise in card value chain mechanics.
• Execute strategies for measurable cost savings across scheme fees, interchange, and transaction costs.
• Build business cases that deliver financial impact while solving user problems.

Required skills

• Payments partnership management
• Payment business development
• Commercial strategy
• Interchange-Plus-Plus pricing
• Card network mechanics
• Negotiation
• English

Benefits

• Share options programme
• 25 days of holiday
• MacBook
• Home office furniture budget
• Employee Assistance Program
• Medical Insurance
• Group Life and Income Protection Insurance
• Matched pension scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Lunch benefit

About the Company

Vinted is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion, connecting millions of members across 20+ markets. Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, the group includes Vinted Marketplace, Vinted Go, and Vinted Pay, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.