
Manager, Pricing Strategy & Operations - EU/UK
As a Manager, Pricing Strategy and Operations at Marqeta, you will be responsible for managing and streamlining the end-to-end deal process, ensuring efficient and scalable pricing strategies, deal structuring, and contract execution. You will work cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product teams to optimise deal outcomes, drive operational efficiency, and maintain compliance with company policies. In this role, you will:
- Drive standardisation across the deal desk and contracting process
- Establish efficient operational cadence, reporting, insights, and benchmarks
- Lead operational rigour and excellence across the GTM organisation
- Serve as an expert on the company’s deal structures, pricing, standard terms and conditions, systems and processes
As a change agent for the organisation, you will rely on data-driven insights and rigorous process assessment to drive operational efficiency within the GTM org.
We encourage a flexible working style, and the team is typically in the office a few days each week in our London office. We'd love for you to join us!
What You’ll Do
- Deal Structuring & Pricing
- Partner with Sales to structure pricing and deal terms, ensuring alignment with company, customer, and bank objectives
- Provide pricing recommendations and margin analysis to maximise deal profitability
- Manage approval workflows for discounts, special terms, and non-standard deal requests
- Process Optimisation & Compliance
- Standardise and continuously optimise deal approval and contracting processes to reduce sales cycle times and set structures in place to scale sustainably
- Ensure deals comply with internal policies, revenue recognition guidelines, and regulatory requirements
- Work with Legal to manage contract redlining and non-standard terms
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Act as a strategic partner to GTM / Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product teams to drive deal efficiency and outcomes, promote knowledge sharing and skills development, and establish best practices
- Provide benchmarking and insights on pricing trends, customer negotiations/objection handling, and competitive positioning
- Support the development of sales enablement materials related to deal structuring, pricing, and terms and conditions
- Reporting & Insights
- Track deal metrics, discounting trends, and overall pricing operations performance
- Provide insights on pricing effectiveness and recommend adjustments based on data-driven analysis
- Act as a cross-functional subject matter expert, who is sought for advice on decisions that can impact business operations and sales strategy
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of related experience such as consulting, investment banking, sales or revenue operations, deals desk, finance, or sales strategy within a fast-paced technology and/or payments company
- Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills, including talent for conducting research, analysing data, developing hypotheses, and synthesising recommendations
- Strong organisational skills and operational mindset; skilled at building processes to scale
- Strong understanding of contract structures and pricing strategies
- Proficiency in Salesforce and financial modelling (Excel, Looker, or similar BI tools)
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple stakeholders
- Change agent challenging the status quo and setting new strategic & operational direction based on fact-based, data-driven analysis
- Ability to think strategically but follow through in execution and operations
- Heavily results driven and able to operate independently with minimum supervision.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Ironclad
- Experience in Payments or Financial Services
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Compensation and Benefits
- Premium Private Medical and Dental coverage
- Generous time off program with additional “Floating Holiday days”
- Retirement savings program with company contribution
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual development stipend to support our people growth and development
- Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Wellbeing programs i.e Modern Health, HealthKick and much more…
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