Strategic Incentive Manager
Adyen is a financial technology company providing a unified platform for payments, data, and financial products. It serves global enterprises, retailers, platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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About Adyen
Adyen provides payment processing and financial technology services through a single platform. Its offerings include online and in-person payments, payment methods, risk management, authentication, revenue optimization, issuing, payouts, liquidity management, embedded accounts, and capital. Adyen typically serves global enterprises, retailers, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other high-growth businesses.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and refine incentive plans for commercial teams, analyze performance trends and plan effectiveness, provide data-driven recommendations, advise commercial leadership, define system requirements, handle complex commission escalations, and collaborate with the rewards team on compensation models and market analysis.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in incentive strategy or compensation design
- Strong analytical ability
- Strong leadership, project management, and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong critical thinking and attention to detail
- Ability to apply discretion and sound judgment
- Exceptional communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Ability to communicate clearly with all levels of the company
- Adaptability and resilience
Responsibilities
- Design and refine incentive plans for Sales, SDR, Account Management, and Partnerships
- Analyze performance trends and incentive plan effectiveness
- Provide data-driven insights for plan calibration
- Advise commercial engine leadership and enablement teams on incentive strategy
- Provide strategic requirements for incentive system development
- Handle high-level support escalations and complex commission exceptions
- Collaborate with the rewards team on compensation models
- Conduct market analysis with competitors
