Prepaid Account Manager

Currys London Campus at Waterloo

Permanent Full Time Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

The Prepaid Gift Card Team are a small team that punch above our weight. We are passionate about Currys Gift Cards and embrace all of Currys values through a close working relationship within the team, the wider Currys team and our external client base. We get things done and return fantastic results. We care about each other.

The teams you’ll work with:

• The Prepaid Gift Card team
• Services
• Finance
• Legal
• Marketing

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Senior Business Development Manager, the Prepaid Account Manager will work with the Prepaid team and other Currys functions to develop and grow client relationships in the Gift Card sector - this sector is exciting, fast moving and fun to be part of.
• You will develop existing relationships to ensure we maximise opportunities by growing strong and lasting relationships and search out new ones from target sectors and some we haven’t even thought about yet.
• Deliver sales and margin targets.
• Management and development of multiple corporate accounts across a number of channels including B2B, Not for Profit, Employee Savings, Salary Sacrifice, Reward & Incentive.
• Identify and develop new clients.
• Open up new channels and revenue opportunities.
• Communicate requirements of the account base to the wider team giving guidance on system and proposition development required.
• Attendance of industry networking events and GCVA membership events.

Required Skills & Experience:

• A good understanding of the UK gift card and voucher market, suppliers, clients and retailers.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience within the gift card market.
• Strong influencing skills and ability to manage several different stakeholders, at all levels.
• Strong communication, written, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Good facilitation and influencing skills to enable successful outcome completion.
• Advanced planning, organisational and multitasking skills.
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, capable of presenting to clients, team forums as well as working cross functionally to achieve the desired results.
• Detail-oriented problem-solving skills.
• Customer champion with excellent commercial awareness and understanding of customer needs.
• Extensive experience of working to deadlines and managing critical paths.
• Experience within a commercial or performance driving environment, driving performance within an account manager and sales role.
• Good knowledge of adjacent markets and competitors (Retail, Services and Technology).
• Good knowledge of Currys UK&I, commercial (profit) models and operating models.
• Experience working within a Financial Services organisation, FMCG or retailer.
• Good working knowledge of SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word and PowerPoint as well as MS Office workflow tools.

We know our people are the secret to our success. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to reward great work. You’ll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holiday entitlement).
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Life Assurance.
• Fantastic colleague discounts on Tech with Currys and iD Mobile.
• Access to Champion Health (Wellbeing App).
• Hybrid working (with an expectation to meet in person 2-4 times per month).

Join our team and we’ll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life. Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we’re committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email careers@currys.co.uk and we’ll do our best to help.