• Ensure that Booking.com’s 3rd party payments partners are monitored and managed on a day to day basis. • Contribute towards payment research that will be used to create reporting dashboards as well as forward looking plans. • Support senior payments partnership managers to create annual plans to ensure best in class performance & reporting from vendors. • Be financially savvy and contribute to deal negotiations and provide analysis on cost drivers. • Play a key role in the life cycle of vendor management - Sourcing (RFIs & RFPs), reviewing appropriate SLA’s, coordinating agreements, reporting and managing the day-to-day activities. • Document and understand the capabilities of third party payments service providers, and regularly benchmark PSPs against the market. • Own the full vendor management cycle including evaluating new needs and build-or-buy scenarios, bid process, vendor performance management, and evaluation of innovation/new capabilities that improve our Pay IN/OUT economics or enhance the payments experience. • Analyze new and emerging technologies and drive the organizational shifts to implement new technologies/payment methods as appropriate. • Monitor Payments / PSP performance by tracking central metrics for analysis and reporting. • Oversee all contract negotiations, quarterly benchmarking reviews, PSP integrations and transitions/dispositions. • Build further support through stakeholder management for projects/initiatives as well as creating and maintaining relevant documentation, reporting and analysis for these projects. • Create & maintain project management frameworks & templates in tools such as Salesforce & Google Drive. • Drive discipline of agility in planning, execution, & evaluation of success of projects. • Collaborate with the technical and business teams to ensure alignment on the overall roadmap for B2C (and potentially B2B) activities. • Coordinate schedules, book meetings/conferences/summits as well as other events.