We're working with a well-established financial services business that is building a newembedded lending partnershipschannel across its consumer lending portfolio.
This is a newly created senior commercial leadership role with a mandate to shape the strategy, identify the largest growth opportunities and personally establish the major partnerships that will underpin the channel.
The focus is on identifying organisations where lending can be integrated into an existing customer journey, with the majority of opportunities expected to bedirect, one-to-one enterprise partnershipscapable of generating meaningful lending volume.
What you'll be doing
Define the embedded partnerships strategy and priority markets
Build and own a pipeline of high-value strategic partnership opportunities
Establish senior relationships with major organisations and key decision-makers
Personally lead complex commercial opportunities from initial engagement through to agreement and launch
Shape propositions that embed lending naturally within the partner's customer journey
Work across Product, Credit, Technology, Operations, Finance and Risk to bring partnerships to life
Own the commercial performance and strategic direction of the channel
Build the capability and team required to scale over time
What we're looking for
The key requirement is a demonstrated track record of personally identifying, building and securing significant new enterprise partnerships.
You may come from consumer lending, retail finance, payments, fintech or broader financial services,



but you'll need to be able to point to examples where you have:
identified a meaningful market opportunity
established major relationships from scratch
shaped and negotiated complex commercial propositions
taken partnerships through to launchdelivered a material commercial outcome
operated across multiple internal stakeholders to get deals done
You'll also bring:
Senior partnerships, business development and commercial leadership experience
Strong exposure to consumer finance, lending, payments or embedded finance
A strong understanding of consumer behaviour and customer journeys
Experience working with large enterprise organisations
Strong commercial judgement and confidence with long-cycle, high-value opportunities
The ability to operate strategically while remaining highly hands-on
Experience owning revenue, channel performance or P&L;
A genuine builder mentality
This role will suit a senior commercial leader who enjoys creating new growth channels, opening major enterprise relationships and staying close to the market.
Location
Flexible across Australia.
Travel will form part of the role depending on partner activity.
Package
Senior executive package including base salary and STI, with flexibility depending on experience.
If your background is in building and winning major partnerships within consumer lending, embedded finance or adjacent financial services markets, this is an opportunity to take real ownership of a recent growth channel.

📌 General Manager - Partnerships (Melbourne)
🏢 CircuIT Recruitment Group
📍 Melbourne