Head of Data Partnerships

**Head of Data Partnerships (m/w/d), Europe**

Fluent in English and French or German

**Location**: Berlin, Germany

**Work pattern**: Full-time (hybrid, 2 days/w in office), permanent

**Salary**: 70,000EUR - 85,000EUR per annum, plus generous options

**Level**: Mid-senior level

**Reporting line**:Senior Data Partnerships Director

**Division/Team**:Data Partnerships

This is a great opportunity for someone who can grow Fable Data’s business model across Europe. You will join an experienced and high-profile team which is critical to the global success of Fable Data. The team is focused on the creation of long-term value for partners by sourcing anonymised transaction data from banks, credit card issuers and Fintech companies globally.

Are you an exceptional business development leader within data and technology sector? Are you looking for an exciting commercial role which will enable you to promote Fable Data’s benefits to the financial industry, whilst navigating the complexities of their businesses and commercial negotiations?

We have an exciting opportunity for a driven and collaborative team player who is keen to join an ambitious team and wants to create pioneering partnerships within the world of retail banking data. You’ll be working in a fast-paced, ambitious environment, with the ability to learn from experts in technology, commercial strategy, and the investment market. You will join a highly energetic team undaunted by the challenge of liberating data for decision making from hard-to-reach places.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Delivery of our European Data Partner Acquisition Strategy
- Research target geographies, demonstrating expert understanding of the finance sector and local economies, as well as Fable Data’s client needs.
- Identification and lead generation of prospective data partners and new datasets
- Delivery of compelling presentations and commercial proposals
- Commercial negotiations
- Ongoing partner relationship management for partners based across Europe
- Team management: our people are our best asset, as a manager you will be responsible for developing and enabling new team members to fulfil their, and Fable Data’s ambitions
- Help scale our team globally by supporting new process development, project management, software tools and recruitment activities

**Essential skills and experience**
- The role would suit an individual with a wealth of commercial negotiation and relationship management experience, in complex technical or regulated environments
- Confident navigating the end-to-end partnership process with senior stakeholders at both complex and large banking institutions and Fintech start-ups
- Able to speak fluently about big data products and processing
- An entrepreneurial spirit is needed to identify opportunities and new potential datasets, combined with patience as the process can take a long time
- A firm grasp of the data partner commercials and economics
- Strong managerial skills, as you will be responsible for leading and developing your team
- Ability to build credible relationships with colleagues and partners
- Ability to manage shifting priorities within tight timeframes
- Fluent in English and in one additional language, French or German
- Must be comfortable and able to travel regularly to the UK and across the EU

**Desired skills and experience**
- Demonstrable interest in economics and data analytics
- Experience managing business relationships outside of the UK in France, Germany, Spain and/or Italy

**About Fable Data**

Data is one of the most valuable resources to modern businesses. A source of competitive advantage for many of the world’s most successful organisations. Powering innovation, enriching people’s lives, underpinning decisions around multi-billion-pound investments and helping to create completely new industries, power new technologies and advance our understanding of our world.

Our world is that data.

Fable Data is the leading source of real-time European consumer transaction data, using anonymised transaction data from European banks and credit card providers. Fable Data has pioneered this model within Europe and supplies data to some of the world’s largest hedge funds, the Financial Times, major government bodies, and Fortune 500 companies.

Our potential is huge, powered by an unrivalled amount of data with very low latency. This helps businesses make faster, better, and more informed decisions, well ahead of other solutions in the market.

We are on a mission to provide better data to decision-makers in business and government - anonymised, real-time and at scale.

We are looking for the very best talent to join our world-class team. Fable Data is well-funded, and has huge aspirations to become THE leading Global provider of transaction data across both Corporate and Investor Markets. We work in an agile, proactive way, so we move fast and stay ahead of the curve. We want people to buy into our ethos that be