Acropolis Associates is US Executive Search company, mainly focused on China and Asia markets
Our client is a leading European company, in banking and co-branding cards.
We recruit the Program Director in charge of one of the key partnerships and co-brand card programs within China.
In this role, the Program Director will have in close proximity with China CEO, to conduct lead and develop one of the two key businesses of the activity, run in partnership with a leading Chinese bank and a major mass-market retailer.
Responsible for a core existing co-brand card program, he will be expected to maximize the current partnership performance and lead the partnerships and the partners through deep business model insight and strategic vision, as well as an understanding of each partner priorities, needs, constraints. He will also be expected to facilitate or create additional business opportunities for our company with the same key retail environment or customer base, initially, and in a medium term perspective with new players in the industry. As key executive within the company in China, he will be expected to be a strategic thinker and a talented relational player, but with a sense of operational realities and a capacity and willingness to look in-store mass-market retail details when quality at ground becomes a key to success.
The right incumbent could prove through his success in his mission his capacity to move upward and realize his fullest potential in our group.
Requirements:
Age: 30 – 40, male or female
Nationality: Chinese, Taiwanese, European,… (bi-cultural or returnees profiles welcomed)
Language: Native or equivalent level of Mandarin and English, French would be an asset.
Tools: Conversant and easy user of current calculation spreadsheets (excel) and presentation software (Ppt), comfortable with emails and instant communication tools, internet social website and web2.0.
Industry backgrounds of interest: (one or preferably several of) banking (credit-card, co-branding, consumer finance), mass-market retailing, prepaid-card, consumer services and loyalty… (not limitative)
Previous positions: (one or several of) business development, key account management, program management, commercial director, marketing & merchandising, direct sales channel management… (not limitative)
