Director Strategic Alliances

What we do? 

Five Degrees is a financial technology provider delivering next generation banking software to retail and private banks. Our clients are retail banks, asset managers, online savings banks and greenfield operations in the financial services industry. 

Our industry-proven and awarded Digital Banking Platform “Matrix” offers fully automated banking services supporting any segment, product or channel through a rich mid office environment, connecting to any (legacy) back-office system. Our products operate in a fully automated model with an unparalleled level of self service at every touch point giving both customers and banks real-time insight and control in the process. The cutting-edge web-based Mid-Office portal offers benefits in terms of efficiency in adapting new business processes on the go. The open API services platform integrates with any external system or service e.g. checks, passport validations, personal finance modules, AML, risk, or any external banking service required. Our clients run the technology in pre-defined flavors: full retail and SME banking, savings bank, private banking or micro finance.

. . . and we do it with high quality 

Five Degrees is 3rd time consecutive member of the FinTech50 and a Dutch FinTech Awards winner in the Banking IT category. Our product and setup has won multiple awards globally.

How we do it?  

Colleagues at Five Degrees are very proud of the company and are extremely happy with their job, as shown in the Staff Involvement Survey. Last year we were in the top 10 of best employers for companies in the category of <100 staff members, according to Effectory and Intermediair.

The culture in our company is characterized as open, transparent and collaborative.

We believe that fun in your work is giving better and greater results! We have monthly activities with our teams in all locations and of course the daily lunch we take in our office.

Following the growing demand from the market, we are expanding the Delivery team with an  Director of Software Development Delivery

Who you are

This role requires an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated individual with a proven track record in building and growing strategic relationships with third-party software companies, Technology Partners and distributors.

Your Challenges

• Responsible for developing and managing the strategic relationships between Five Degrees and its partners
• Establish and manage a certified partner program that will provide a more scalable and predictable revenue/cost model
• Drive partner relationships at the executive level, acting as a key resource for Five Degrees Sales and Marketing organization, conducting sales training presentations as needed, and assisting with sales qualification and closing when needed.
• Effectively communicate products and positioning to partners (executives and sales team members); this will require proficiency with our products and services
• Understand target partners’ business, political landscape, and articulate how the Five Degrees solutions matches with their interests
• Produce collateral for the partner channel that can be used by partner sales, executives and others to consistently represent the value of partnership
• Establish revenue targets and other success metrics of partnerships, monitor and report on progress regularly               
• Represent Five Degrees at events, partner conferences, and customer visitations

Desired skills

• Bachelor or University degree
• The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in sales and strategic leadership roles, ideally in a modern and automated Fintech environment and with a deep understanding of the value of a Partner ecosystem.
• Significant experience promoting and complex software solutions to channel partners, gained within high pressure sales role or previous channel sales role.
• Demonstrable track record of over achievement against significant revenue targets, in the context of medium/long sales cycles, and complex situations where the sales process involves external stakeholders and where the end to end solution involves a number of channel partners across a given supply chain
• High impact, dynamic person, with a record of achieving results individually and through others; an intelligent, strategic thinker with proven ability to execute channel partner/sales plans.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and people leadership capabilities
• The working environment is international. A solid knowledge of English is therefore required, both oral and written

Five Degrees Provides Excellent Company Benefits

• A spot in the top 10 best employers (<100 staff members)
• Market rate salary
• Good secondary benefits package (holiday allowance, pension plan)
• All inclusive (lunch, drinks, snacks and fruits)
• Flexible working hours and locations (further to be discussed in the interview)
• Lots of fun and plenty of space for your personal development (Education/Academy to learn)