Strategic Partnerships Manager, Travel
Key Skills
Job Description
Strategic Partnerships Manager, Travel
Amsterdam
In Office
What You Bring
- A proven track record of sourcing and signing new partnerships in the travel payments ecosystem
- A strong network across travel — GDS, intermediaries, aggregators, OTAs, TMCs and travel SaaS platforms
- Deep knowledge of embedded payments and virtual cards, and how travel platforms embed them to create value
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
Who We Are
Our vision is a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments. Modulr enables businesses from SMEs to enterprises, initially across the UK, Europe and the US to efficiently pay in, collect, and disburse funds instantly via a range of payment schemes, accounts, and card products.
We partner with the world’s leading Travel and SaaS platforms to embed payments into their workflows and deliver seamless experiences for customers. With strong momentum in Travel and virtual card payment channels, we’re scaling our partnerships team to capture this growth.
Find out more about us on our website and careers site.
What You’ll Do
- Own the full partnership lifecycle for Modulr’s Travel channel — from identifying and engaging target platforms through to negotiating and signing new partners
- Build and manage a pipeline of target travel partners: GDS, intermediaries, aggregators, OTAs, TMCs and travel SaaS platforms
- Make the commercial case for embedding Modulr’s payments and virtual card capability into partners’ platforms and workflows
- Structure and negotiate partnership commercial models — revenue share, referral and embedded — that work for both sides
- Develop and execute a plan to consistently hit new-partner and partnership-revenue targets
- Take deals through to signature and a successful launch, working with product, solutions consulting, legal, risk and compliance
- Represent Modulr at travel industry events, building the network and profile that generate inbound and referral opportunities
- Feed market and competitor insight from the travel ecosystem back into Modulr’s product and go-to-market priorities
Who You Are
What you’ll need
- A proven track record of sourcing and signing new partnerships in travel payments or the wider travel ecosystem, consistently hitting or exceeding new-partner targets
- An established network and credibility across the travel ecosystem (GDS, intermediaries, aggregators, OTAs, TMCs, travel SaaS)
- An understanding of how platforms embed payments, and of partnership commercial models such as revenue share, referral and embedded finance
- Strong understanding of virtual cards / VCNs in travel payments, plus the wider payments landscape (card schemes, acquiring, real-time payments)
- A consultative, partnership-led approach, comfortable navigating long, complex, multi-stakeholder deals
- Commercial acumen — building business cases, structuring partnership deals, and forecasting pipeline and downstream value
- Confident presenting to and negotiating with C-suite and senior stakeholders
- Comfortable managing pipeline and forecasting in a CRM such as Salesforce
Nice to haves
- Business-level fluency in Spanish
- Existing relationships with enterprise travel brands (e.g. Juniper, GDS, airlines)
- Experience building embedded payments or channel/partnership propositions
- A curious mindset and a drive to explore how AI can sharpen how we win and support partners
What We Offer You
- Share Options – We offer a Company Share Option Plan (CSOP), giving you the opportunity to benefit from any increase in share value in the event of a sale, merger, or flotation.
- Bonus – Our annual discretionary bonus, paid in May for the previous year, is based on both company and individual performance.
- Flexible benefits – €1,000 to spend on benefits to suit you, including private medical insurance, gym membership, dental, and more.
- Wellbeing app – confidential, on-demand access to therapy, coaching, counselling, management training or mindfulness sessions with accredited professionals, with company-funded hours and top-up options available.
- Holidays – 33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays) plus your birthday off. In the UK, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day are fixed holidays. You can choose the remaining days to suit your personal schedule.
- Learning opportunities – Our two-day onboarding programme, ModStart, helps equip you for success. Learning doesn’t stop there; we’ll continue to support your development through various channels.
- Company-Wide Events – Participate in collaborative and engaging events with colleagues across the business.
- Bike to work / E-bike scheme
ModInclusion
At Modulr, we’re committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds as we believe it’s the right thing for our people, our business, and the community we operate in.
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Core Responsibilities
You will own the full partnership lifecycle for the travel channel, from identifying and engaging target platforms to negotiating and signing new partners. Additionally, you will represent Modulr at industry events and provide market insights to help shape product and go-to-market priorities.
Requirements
The ideal candidate has a proven track record of sourcing and signing partnerships within the travel payments ecosystem and an established network of industry contacts. You must possess strong commercial acumen, experience with embedded finance models, and the ability to navigate complex, multi-stakeholder negotiations.
Benefits
- Share Options
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- Flexible Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- Gym Membership
- Dental Insurance
- Wellbeing App
- 33 Days Annual Leave
- Birthday Off
- Onboarding Programme
- Bike To Work Scheme
- E-bike Scheme
About Modulr
Industry: Financial Services
Company size: 201-500 employees
Modulr is the payments automation platform that streamlines money movement with accuracy, control and reliability - built to scale. Driving the future of finance operations, Modulr automates payment and reconciliation workflows to remove manual work, lower operational costs and reduce errors. Processing more than 200mn transactions and over £180bn in annualised payments value, Modulr is trusted by over 6,000 businesses – from fast-growing SMEs to global enterprises. Through a single platform, Modulr automates how money moves into and out of a business - including payroll, supplier payments, spend management and payment collection. Its integrations hub connects with more than 20 leading accounting and payroll systems, including Sage, Xero, and BrightPay, to enable automated money movement directly within existing finance workflows. Principal memberships of global payment networks such as Visa and Mastercard, combined with direct access to central bank infrastructure, provides the reach, speed and resilience required for modern international finance operations. Modulr brings over a decade of experience as a regulated payments provider, backed by deep industry expertise, delivering the reliability required to run mission-critical finance operations at scale.