Partnership Associate – C-Inspire

Role Overview

The Partnership Associate will support the growth of C-Inspire by identifying, engaging, onboarding, and managing partners across loyalty, rewards, gamification, digital gift cards, vouchers, merchant networks, aggregators, and open-loop wallet ecosystems in Egypt.

The role will manage partnership opportunities from initial research and outreach through qualification, onboarding, offer activation, and ongoing relationship support. The successful candidate should be hands-on and execution-focused, with the ability to source both direct digital partners and aggregators, activate and maintain partner offers, and support the continuous growth and quality of the C-Inspire rewards and offers catalogue.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and identify potential partners aligned with C-Inspire’s growth priorities.
• Identify and engage direct digital partners, merchant networks, aggregators, loyalty platforms, and strategic ecosystem partners.
• Source and onboard digital gift card and voucher providers.
• Identify partnership opportunities with open-loop wallet players and digital payment ecosystems.
• Support the expansion of C-Inspire’s loyalty, rewards, and gamification ecosystem.
• Build and maintain a structured pipeline of prospective partners and track progress, actions, and outcomes.
• Conduct initial outreach, qualification, and follow-up with prospective partners.
• Support the preparation of partnership proposals, presentations, business cases, and meeting materials.
• Coordinate partner meetings and ensure timely follow-up on agreed actions.
• Support partner onboarding and maintain strong day-to-day relationships with active partners.
• Coordinate the activation, update, maintenance, and expiry management of partner offers, vouchers, and rewards.
• Ensure partner offers are accurate, active, relevant, and commercially attractive.
• Follow up with partners to refresh expired or underperforming offers and maintain a strong offers catalogue.
• Track partner onboarding, activation status, offer availability, and partnership performance.
• Work cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, Legal, and other internal teams to support partnership initiatives.
• Maintain accurate partnership records, documentation, and regular activity reports.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Management, or a related field.
• 2-4 years of relevant experience in Partnerships, Business Development, Account Management, Merchant Acquisition, Loyalty, Rewards, or a similar commercial role.
• Good understanding of loyalty and rewards programs, gamification, digital gift cards, vouchers, and digital offers.
• Experience dealing with direct partners and/or aggregators.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills with the ability to manage multiple partners and offers simultaneously.
• Fluency in Arabic and strong professional English.

Preferred Profile

• Experience in loyalty, rewards, gamification, merchant acquisition, digital gift cards, vouchers, FinTech, marketplaces, or digital platforms.
• Exposure to direct merchant partnerships, aggregators, voucher providers, loyalty networks, or wallet ecosystems.
• Experience supporting partner onboarding, offer activation, or catalogue management is highly preferred.
• Commercial mindset with a proactive, hands-on, and execution-focused approach.