Head of Payments

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Emerging Travel Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

Hospitality • Logistics • eCommerce

Emerging Travel Group is a leading provider of advanced online booking platforms tailored for individual travelers, travel agents, and corporate clients. They empower hoteliers to enhance visibility and attract a wider customer base through their comprehensive travel solutions, which include over 2. 9 million accommodations, flights, transfers, and car rentals across 190 source markets. With a focus on technology excellence, Emerging Travel Group serves a vast network of travel agencies and corporate clients, enabling seamless travel management and collaboration in the dynamic travel industry.

📋 Description

• Own and develop the company’s payment infrastructure, including pay-ins, payouts, anti-fraud, and payment operations • Define and execute the payments strategy in line with business growth, profitability, and market expansion goals • Own overall payments P&L and financial performance, including acquiring costs, payout costs, fraud costs, conversion impact, and budget performance • Lead end-to-end implementation of new payment solutions, from business case development and partner selection through integration, launch, and optimization • Lead strategic payment initiatives across Product, Engineering, Finance, and Commercial teams • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to improve customer experience, conversion, payment performance, and product metrics • Contribute to product strategy and prioritization within payments • Build and maintain relationships with PSPs, banks, and other payment partners • Ensure payment infrastructure resilience through failover capabilities, provider diversification, and scalable architecture • Own business cases and financial models, including ROI analysis and investment evaluation • Drive payment cost optimization and identify monetization opportunities • Monitor market trends, emerging technologies, and payment solutions • Present payment strategy, business cases, and performance results to senior leadership and C-level stakeholders • Influence decision-making, align stakeholders, and drive execution in a fast-paced environment

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience owning payments P&L and driving financial performance in high-volume environments • Strong commercial mindset with a track record of cost optimization, conversion improvement, and revenue impact • Product-oriented leadership experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams • Understanding of product metrics and prioritization • Strategic thinking combining hands-on execution with innovation and scalable payment solutions • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills • Confidence presenting to executive leadership and C-level management • Entrepreneurial and proactive mindset with high energy and strong ownership mentality • Deep understanding of payment ecosystems, PSPs, acquiring, payouts, fraud prevention, and payment operations • Ability to collaborate effectively within the CET timezone

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely • Ambitious and supportive team • Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities • Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences • Corporate English school with group and individual lessons and speaking clubs • Corporate prices on hotels and travel services • MyTime Day Off — an extra non-working day without loss of compensation