Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in negotiation and partner management in the retail industry.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in brand/retail category management, retail sales, gift card segment, and/or digital content.
• Experience with the gaming industry (i.e. mobile gaming).
• Understanding of the payments and finance technology landscape.
• Ability to speak and write in Arabic and Turkish fluently.

About the job

Google's line of products and services to clients never stops growing. Strategic Partner Managers have the rare opportunity to build a long-lasting relationship with our top partners. You cultivate these existing partnerships to make sure they can take full advantage of Google's ever-growing suite of offerings. You possess strong relationship-building skills and are apt to see mutually beneficial opportunities with partners in order to best represent our users, products and programs.

As a Retail Partner Manager, you’ll be part of a team at Google that focuses on delivering a flawless physical and digital product at global scale.

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.

Responsibilities

• Work with retailers, digital gaming websites, and payment partners to help drive user engagement with locally relevant content. 
• Manage Go-To-Market and ongoing activation of forms of payment (i.e., eWallets, distribution partners, regional banks, telecommunication carriers, and other external payment partners) that facilitate transaction processing for the billing services provided to developers on our platform.
• Lead the strategic direction of our digital gift code distribution.
• Manage integrator/service provider relationships to distribute gift cards and develop strategic relationships with digital retailers to grow the business.
• Develop and implement promotional strategies and co-marketing terms to drive cost-effective promotion. Analyze data across merchants, products, promotions, and other variables to optimize performance.