Senior Manager, Business Development - Merchant Technology

Uber Uber · Consumer · Amsterdam, Netherlands +1 · Business Development

Senior Manager, Business Development role focused on growing strategic product partnerships for Uber's merchant and corporate partners, spanning Uber Eats, Uber Direct, and other key verticals. Responsibilities include identifying and evaluating opportunities, leading partnership processes from outreach to negotiation and implementation, collaborating with cross-functional teams, developing deal analytics, and managing cultivated partnerships. Requires strong deal-making, strategic thinking, technical savviness with API integrations, and executive engagement skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and evaluate strategic partnership opportunities across various areas within the foodservice/restaurant/delivery technology space, with a focus on high-impact collaborations that drive business growth.
  2. Lead end-to-end partnership processes, from initial outreach and business case development to contract negotiations and implementation.
  3. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams: Corporate Development, Product, Finance, Compliance, Policy, Marketing, Operations, Legal & Engineering to ensure partnership strategies align with overall business goals and drive value.
  4. Develop and present strategic deal analytics, competitive research, and market insights to guide business decision-making and shape partnership strategies.
  5. Own and cultivate partnerships that you will manage independently, ensuring long-term success through proactive relationship management and performance monitoring.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of business development experience (including management consulting, public-private partnerships, government affairs, banking or commercial development)
  • Experience in technology partnerships
  • Experience with enterprise platform partners
  • Experience with partner-centric go-to-market approach
  • Experience establishing, maintaining, and leveraging C-level relationships
  • Proven track record of building and executing commercial deals and complex partnerships
  • Ability to fuse business, strategy, finance, and legal concepts
  • Complex problem solving skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to deliver results cross-functionally
  • Experience dealing with multi-stakeholder environments
  • Analytical mindset
  • Ability to leverage insights and data for strategic decision-making
  • Proactive, self-directed, and adaptable
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
  • Strong communication skills (written, verbal, presentations)
  • Negotiation skills
  • Ability to influence stakeholders
  • Ability to secure alignment at all levels
  • Technical savviness
  • Working knowledge of API integrations
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and product teams

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of the food service/restaurants sector
  • Fluency in another European language

What the JD emphasized

  • highly strategic
  • results-driven dealmaker
  • grow strategic product partnerships
  • drive scale
  • drive Uber’s growth and innovation
  • high-impact collaborations
  • drive business growth
  • end-to-end partnership processes
  • contract negotiations
  • ensure partnership strategies align with overall business goals and drive value
  • strategic deal analytics
  • shape partnership strategies
  • operational excellence
  • key deals or projects
  • manage independently
  • long-term success
  • performance monitoring
  • excellent communication skills
  • effectively influence stakeholders
  • secure alignment at all levels
  • results-driven
  • navigating ambiguity
  • proactively bringing clarity and structure
  • complex or undefined situations
  • drive tangible outcomes
  • Confidently engage with senior internal and external executives
  • building strong relationships
  • representing Uber’s strategic interests
  • key decision-makers
  • technically savvy
  • working knowledge of API integrations
  • collaborate effectively with engineering and product teams
  • seamless integration of partnerships
  • problem-solving
  • finding joy in puzzles
  • creativity and an inquisitive mindset
  • unravel complex challenges
  • working with large, cross-functional teams
  • fast-paced, ambiguous, and dynamic environment
  • At least 10+ years of business development
  • technology partnerships space
  • knowledge of the food service/ restaurants sector
  • enterprise platform partners
  • partner-centric go-to-market approach
  • establishing, maintaining, and leveraging C-level relationships
  • Proven track record of building and executing commercial deals and complex partnerships
  • fuse business, strategy, finance, and legal concepts
  • lead complex, multi-faceted deals
  • track record of complex problem solving
  • attention to detail
  • delivering results cross-functionally
  • dealing with multi-stakeholder environments
  • Analytical mindset
  • proven ability to leverage insights and data
  • inform strategic decision-making
  • Proactive, self-directed, and adaptable
  • thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
  • Inquisitiveness
  • ability to spot issues
  • get to the heart of a matter
  • articulate plans to address them
  • Clear communicator
  • team orientated
  • willing to take initiative
  • thinking two steps ahead
  • highest standards of integrity, ethics and accountability
  • Working knowledge of API integrations