Payments Strategy Manager

undefined ago • 8 Years + • $90,400 PA - $157,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Payments Strategy Manager at eBay will lead cross-functional projects focused on payments, transaction expense, and pricing strategy. This role involves providing process and content leadership, acting as a primary liaison for product and finance teams, and influencing eBay’s payments strategy and financial services direction. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of pragmatic recommendations, strong analytical skills, and the ability to develop creative solutions for complex business challenges within a dynamic, purpose-driven environment.
Must have:
  • Develop payments and financial services strategies and analysis for market differentiation.
  • Craft initiatives for optimizing payments transaction expense and pricing strategies.
  • Develop key initiatives to support eBay payments goals and gain cross-functional consensus.
  • Create a three-to-five-year plan on payments funding mix and pricing strategy initiatives.
  • Ensure project alignment, resourcing, and scheduling with PMO and peer strategy teams.
  • Create business cases for transaction expense optimization initiatives.
  • Inform thinking via discussions with cross-functional partners and tracking industry trends.
  • Assist the finance team with budget submissions and quarterly forecasting cycles.
  • Provide strategic and analytic inputs to partnerships and business development teams for contract negotiations.
  • Build and improve tracking and monitoring mechanisms for new business initiatives, funding mix, and pricing.
  • Monitor key payments and financial services industry trends.
  • Share recommendations on strategic implications with the organization.
  • Support and contribute to the payments and financial services three- to five-year strategy.
  • Partner with key stakeholders to ensure execution aligns with strategy.
Good to have:
  • Expertise e-commerce and payments strategy
Perks:
  • Full range of medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • 401(k) eligibility
  • Paid time off benefits (PTO)
  • Parental leave

Job Details

At eBay, we're more than a global ecommerce leader — we’re changing the way the world shops and sells. Our platform empowers millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world. We’re committed to pushing boundaries and leaving our mark as we reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.

Our customers are our compass, authenticity thrives, bold ideas are welcome, and everyone can bring their unique selves to work — every day. We're in this together, sustaining the future of our customers, our company, and our planet.

Join a team of passionate thinkers, innovators, and dreamers — and help us connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all.

The Team:

At eBay, you will be part of a purpose driven community dedicated to creating an ambitious and versatile work environment. In eBay Payments, you are an integral member of a growing organization that inspires passion, courage and innovation - creating the future of global commerce and making an important, positive impact on millions of eBay sellers and shoppers around the world. If you are looking for a special place to take your Payments career to the next level, we want to talk with you!

The role:

Payments Strategy Manager is a role where you will have the opportunity to lead several cross-functional projects on payments, transaction expense and pricing strategy. You will bring both process and content leadership to strategic projects and act as the primary point person for product and finance teams for payments strategy. Within this role, you will have the ability to influence key elements of eBay’s payments and strategy and help shape the strategic direction of financial services at eBay. The ideal candidate has a track record of making pragmatic, concrete recommendations with real world implementation experience. It is critical for the role that the candidate has strong analytic skills and is excellent in developing creative/ out-of-the-box and well-thought-out solutions for challenging business problems.

Responsibilities

  • Payments Strategy Development and Analysis: Develop payments and financial services strategies and analysis for eBay to differentiate itself in the market. This will include crafting initiatives for optimizing payments transaction expense, pricing strategies and developing the key initiatives to support eBay payments goals and working closely with key cross-functional partners to gain consensus.
  • Planning: In close partnership with buyer and platform product, partnerships, finance and risk partners, help create a three-to-five-year plan on payments funding mix and pricing strategy initiatives that support the long-term strategy. Work with PMO and peer strategy teams to ensure project alignment, resourcing and scheduling of the critical initiatives.
  • Business case development: Create cases for transaction expense optimization initiatives and inform the thinking via discussions with cross-functional partners, tracking industry trends with a view to create best-in-class value-based pricing framework for eBay payments, and keeping in mind eBay’s overall strategic goals.
  • Support: Provide assistance to the finance team on budget submissions and quarterly forecasting cycles, and to partnerships and business development team in their contract negotiations and provide both strategic and analytic inputs to them as needed - by closely working with the business analytics team.
  • Monitoring and strategic analytics: In close collaboration with the business analytics team, build and improve areas for comprehensive tracking and monitoring mechanisms for new business initiatives, funding mix management and pricing for the payments business at eBay.
  • Industry and competitive trends: Keep a tab on key payments and financial services industry trends in payments transaction expense strategies, the latest pricing strategies, share recommendations with the organization on strategic implications.
  • Strategic Planning: Support and contribute to the payments and financial services three- to five-year strategy, including product and service offerings, experiences and capabilities; partner with key partners to ensure that execution is in alignment with the strategy.

Job Requirements

  • Outstanding analytical capabilities (quantitative and qualitative), ability to generate key insights and recommendations on financial services
  • Excellence in structured thinking, developing sensible, creative solutions to challenging strategic business problems. Creativity and “out of the box” thinking that drives innovation. The ability to “see around corners” and “connect the dots” that enable business to proactively drive business
  • Strong executive presence and ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply. Ease with executive-level interactions. Ability to create clear and simple storylines.
  • Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking
  • Ability to connect and work seamlessly with cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; comfortable managing with ambiguity
  • Highly collaborative and a great teammate

Qualification and Experience

  • Proven leader with at least 8 years of work experience – preferably 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting firm with strategy and analytical focus
  • Minimum 5+ years experience working in payments or financial services
  • Bachelor degree or equivalent experience required; Masters or equivalent preferred
  • Expertise e-commerce and payments strategy is highly desirable

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

$90,400 - $157,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a target bonus and restricted stock units (as applicable) in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as PTO and parental leave). Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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We Empower People and Create Economic OpportunityeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world. We exist to enable economic opportunity for individuals, entrepreneurs, businesses and organizations of all sizes.

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