Payments Acceptance Specialist

As a Payments Acceptance Senior Specialist, you will be responsible for optimizing and improving the overall user payments experience across various markets for all our offerings (food delivery, quick commerce, subscription etc.), with a strong focus on ensuring seamless acceptance and success across all payment methods, including emerging payment channels. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive performance improvements, ensure effective issue resolution, and maintain alignment with regional strategies.

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in payments, with a strong emphasis on payment acceptance, payment operations, or PSP integrations.

• Technical Understanding: Deep understanding of the payments ecosystem, including payment authorization processes, payment methods, and operational flows related to online payments.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Strong ability to work across regions and teams, collaborating with technical, product, and business teams to deliver high-impact initiatives.

• Problem-Solving Skills: Excellent ability to analyze and resolve complex payment issues, often requiring collaboration with external partners and internal stakeholders.

• Market Awareness: Understanding of global and regional payment trends, regulatory requirements, and best practices, especially in high-growth markets.

• Experience with payment performance optimization and working with different payment methods or channels.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and balance between strategic oversight and operational problem-solving.

• Strong communication skills with a proven track record of managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

In July, Delivery Hero SE merged three of its market-leading food delivery businesses, foodora and Yemeksepeti in Europe, and foodpanda in Asia. All three businesses now make up the second-largest organization within the Delivery Hero Group, and leading food and QCommerce delivery in 18 markets in both regions.

• Payments Performance & Optimization: Analyze payment performance data to identify opportunities for optimization, particularly around key metrics like Authorization Rates (AR), Success Rates (SR), and Conversion Rates (mCVR). Proactively drive initiatives to enhance these metrics across all payment channels, including subscriptions and emerging channels.

• Stakeholder Management: Engage with senior leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams across regions and center to align on payments-related goals, initiatives, and strategies. Act as a liaison between central teams, regional teams, and external partners to ensure successful delivery of payment enhancements.

• Business Operations Oversight: Oversee regional and local payments operations to ensure adoption of best practices and consistent execution across markets. Provide strategic input without direct execution responsibility, focusing on continuous performance improvements.

• Payment Integration & Expansion: Support the rollout of new payment methods, features, and system enhancements. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.

• Process & Prioritization Management: Lead the process of aligning and prioritizing payments integration needs across various regions, ensuring that the most impactful initiatives are delivered in a timely manner.

• Issue Troubleshooting & Resolution: Monitor payment systems and processes for potential issues and work closely with internal teams and external partners to resolve them. Lead efforts to quickly troubleshoot and mitigate any payment disruptions or inefficiencies.

• Market & Performance Benchmarking: Regularly assess market trends and performance metrics to ensure the company's payment offerings remain competitive and aligned with industry best practices. Propose improvements and enhancements based on data-driven insights.