Who are Benifex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

• Impact: you will be responsible for building up our Partnerships network Europe and developing our offering in the DACH region.
• Responsibility: you will have autonomy to own the future of the Partnerships we have in the region and shape regional strategy.
  
• Support: you'll benefit from support of the wider Partnerships department and our Munich office.
  
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

Great benefits:

💰 €35,000-50,000

🤸 Flexible work – our Munich team meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in office.

💸 Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

✈️ 30 days holiday

🎂 Days off for special events

🤑 Pension scheme - 5% employer contribution

🩺 €500 annual wellness budget for health-related activities or items

🧠 Employee Assistance Plan - 24/7 365 days a year confidential support to help with your health and wellbeing

🙌 Two days per year dedicated to volunteering

🎉 Access to our award-winning flexible benefits platform - 30+ flexible benefits to choose from

👪 Parental leave up to 3 years per child

💵 Recruitment referral bonus

🥳 Yearly events to celebrate company milestones and holidays

Role Overview 🚀

The Global Partnership Executive will play a key role in discovering and onboarding new benefit partners into the Marketplace, building strong commercial relationships from the outset. They will work closely with internal stakeholders to help create, negotiate, and implement partnership agreements, ensuring all solutions are commercially sound and deliverable within Benifex’s Marketplace framework.

This role will also contribute to building and templating scalable partner solutions, capturing repeatable models that can be rolled out across different regions and benefit types. The individual will support go-to-market (GTM) activity, ensuring that new partner launches and benefit propositions are delivered successfully and embedded effectively across Benifex products and customer channels.

Fluency in both German and English is essential, as the role will involve frequent communication with local benefit providers and internal UK-based teams.

The role provides a strong foundation for progression within Partnerships and offers exposure to commercial, operational, and customer success areas.

Responsibilities 🤘

• Represent Benifex’s Marketplace in Germany and Europe, building and managing relationships with local benefit providers.
• Lead partner onboarding in collaboration with UK Marketplace and Legal teams, ensuring commercial alignment and compliance.
• Negotiate and structure scalable partnership models tailored to regional needs.
• Curate the German and European Marketplace offering by translating market insights into partnership propositions and supporting go-to-market activities.
• Monitor partner performance and market feedback to drive continuous improvement and commercial impact.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Legal, Product, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Success to ensure seamless partner integration and launch.
• Contribute to process improvements and share German and European market insights to inform global Marketplace strategy.
• Lead relationships with key providers, acting as the primary contact and point of escalation to ensure the successful performance of our Marketplace providers, including responsibility for regular business review calls and on going accountability for that partner within Benifex.
• Ability to hold Partners accountable for the production of timely and accurate information to understand their performance, include Finance MI, invoicing, and payments in line with contractual obligations.
• Ensure senior stakeholders are kept informed on any issues with partners, including propositional changes, contractual changes, revenue changes etc.
• Use initiative to strengthen provider relationships and their benefit propositions.
• Articulate local benefits knowledge.
• Create and negotiate Marketplace Agreements.
• Maintain and deliver adherence to the Marketplace provider framework, ensuring compliance, financial, and security reviews are conducted regularly.
• Support internal stakeholders with partnership queries and escalations, via teams, Jira, in person, calls etc.
• As part of the partnership management, creation and presentation of partner MI packs/presentations to support strategic growth conversations, including trends and relevant data

What are we looking for? 🔎

• Fluency in German and English (both written and spoken).
• A genuine interest in employee benefits, digital marketplaces, or technology-enabled services.
• Proven experience in senior stakeholder management.
• Demonstrable experience in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders within organisations.
• Strong organisation and time management skills.
• Demonstrable Excel knowledge.
• Commercial awareness, including understanding contracts.
• Ability to negotiate commercial terms with providers.
• Project management skills.
• Ability to work with data to create and analyse partner performance and trends, to present back to internal and external stakeholders
• Some experience or exposure to partner management, supplier coordination, or account management (internship, placement, or early career role).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build trust and maintain relationships.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, for handling and analysing data.

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow.

Our interview process

✌ Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team

🧪 Short task to prepare for the hiring team

⏳ Interview with the hiring manager and a member of the team

🤩 Final interview with a member of our Munich team

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.