Retail Partnerships Strategic Leader

1 week ago


Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lightspeed Full time
Company Overview

Lightspeed is a global commerce platform that empowers merchants to innovate and simplify their operations. Our cloud-based solution transforms and unifies online and offline sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

About the Role

We are seeking a seasoned Retail Partnerships Strategic Leader to join our team. As a key member of our partnerships organization, you will be responsible for leading our product partnership strategy across all retail products. You will oversee a team focused on developing, managing, and supporting product integration partners across multiple point-of-sale and eCommerce platforms.

This role requires a dynamic leader capable of juggling multiple projects and priorities while driving strategic alignment across teams. You will report directly to the VP of Partnerships and be responsible for managing a small team of partnership managers who directly manage product partners integrated across our point-of-sale and eCommerce platforms. You will also manage a partner services team focused on onboarding and supporting partners.

Responsibilities
  1. Team Leadership: Build and manage a high-performing team that oversees all product integration partnerships across our point-of-sale and eCommerce platforms.
  2. Strategic Planning: Identify product partnership opportunities to develop and guide our partner strategy in the retail space across products and geographies.
  3. Partnership Development: Collaborate across teams to build a compelling app-marketplace and develop self-service partner tools to accelerate the growth of our app ecosystem partners.
  4. Negotiation and Governance: Develop and negotiate strategic partnership agreements that meet the company's strategic needs while ensuring mutual benefit to both parties.
  5. Results Management: Manage results with partner companies through regular governance processes.
Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • At least 10 years of experience working in partnerships in the point-of-sale, payments, or eCommerce space.
  • A proven track record of delivering executional plans with measurable impact on the business.
  • Experience engaging at an executive level both internally with cross-functional groups and externally with partners.
  • Proven ability to lead a diverse, high-performing team across geographical regions.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently with a high degree of accountability.
What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary range of $150,000 - $200,000 per year, plus additional benefits including:

  • Lightspeed share scheme (we are all owners)
  • Immediate access to our benefits plan
  • RRSP match after 3 months
  • Fitness & Wellness benefit: $500 CAD per calendar year
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Parental leave Top-Up


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