Global Partner Activation Lead

Global Payments Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Partner Activation Manager to join our Platforms team in London, driving end-to-end partner activations from contract to go-live. You will coordinate with Sales, Technical Integration, Risk, and Legal to ensure smooth onboarding and timely deployments for new processing merchants.

You will manage activation timelines, mitigate blockers, and maintain clear communications with partners, building confidence in Global Payments during onboarding and beyond.

Qualifications

• Proven experience project managing complex, multi-stakeholder onboarding, implementation or activation processes.
• Comfortable managing several concurrent partner activations at varying stages, prioritising effectively under time pressure.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across sales, technical, risk and operations.
• Working knowledge of payments concepts (acquiring, KYC/KYB, underwriting, API integrations) is highly desirable.
• Experience using CRM or project tracking tools (Salesforce, Jira, Hubspot) to manage workflow and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project management of new partner activations, from contract execution through technical integration, testing, underwriting/risk approval and go-live of the first processing merchants.
• Build and maintain a clear activation plan and timeline for each partner, tracking milestones, dependencies and risks, and proactively resolving blockers to keep activations on schedule.
• Act as the primary point of contact for newly signed partners during onboarding, setting expectations, managing communications and building confidence in Worldpay for Platforms from day one.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Sales, Solutions/Technical Integration, Risk & Underwriting, Product, Legal and Operations to sequence activities and unblock dependencies.
• Manage partner onboarding requirements including KYC/KYB, underwriting documentation, API/integration testing and certification, and platform configuration.
• Track and report activation pipeline status, timelines and key metrics to the Head of Sales, UK & EMEA and wider leadership.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

Salesforce

Jira

Hubspot

Job description

Global Payments Inc. is seeking a Partner Activation Manager to join our Platforms team in London, driving end-to-end partner activations from contract to go-live. You will coordinate with Sales, Technical Integration, Risk, and Legal to ensure smooth onboarding and timely deployments for new processing merchants.

You will manage activation timelines, mitigate blockers, and maintain clear communications with partners, building confidence in Global Payments during onboarding and beyond.