Enterprise Partnership Manager DACH (f/m/d)
On-site Berlin, Germany 2+ yrs
About Upway
At Upway, we’re building the world’s leading refurbisher and marketplace for e-bikes. We operate across 9 countries, with our own logistics and refurbishment centers in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Antwerp.
We source high-quality e-bikes, professionally refurbish them and put them back on the road — combining premium quality, affordability and sustainability. We’ve already brought more than 100,000 e-bikes back to life, and we’re just getting started.
As Enterprise Partnerships Manager DACH (f/m/d), you will own Upway’s leasing vertical across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. DACH is a key growth region for Upway, and leasing is one of our most important supply channels. You’ll build strategic partnerships, negotiate long-term agreements and drive strong commercial performance while continuously raising standards and improving how we operate. Start date: January 1, 2027.
We source high-quality e-bikes, professionally refurbish them and put them back on the road — combining premium quality, affordability and sustainability. We’ve already brought more than 100,000 e-bikes back to life, and we’re just getting started.
As Enterprise Partnerships Manager DACH (f/m/d), you will own Upway’s leasing vertical across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. DACH is a key growth region for Upway, and leasing is one of our most important supply channels. You’ll build strategic partnerships, negotiate long-term agreements and drive strong commercial performance while continuously raising standards and improving how we operate. Start date: January 1, 2027.
- Portfolio Management: Managing a portfolio of key leasing partners, taking ownership of and growing strategic partnerships
- Operational Excellence: Insisting on high standards in terms of collaboration, driving top notch processes on invoicing, tracking, list management, timelines.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating closely with operations, product, pricing, logistics to translate partnerships into scalable inventory growth and operational excellence
- Commercial Negotiations: Leading complex commercial negotiations to form framework agreements, securing favourable purchasing conditions, and ensuring alignment across volumes, pricing, and service levels.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Using data to lead decisions. You will be comfortable working with forecasts, ROI cases, and KPIs to prioritise and manage performance.
- 2–7 years of experience within business development, enterprise sales, key account management.
- Commercial Acumen: Proven track record of growing a partner portfolio and securing structured agreements that balance partner value with the business's economics.
- Operational Excellence: Ability to translate agreements into scalable processes (onboarding, flows, SLAs, KPIs) and drive the adoption.
- Stakeholder Mastery: Robust stakeholder management skills, with a proven track record of delivering results across complex and long sales cycles, and building a high level of credibility with senior stakeholders.
- Language Skills: Fluent English and German written and verbal communication skills are essential for this role.
- Impact & Ownership: High-impact role in our largest market, with full strategic and operational responsibility.
- Purpose-Driven Mission: Be part of reshaping mobility through sustainability and innovation.
- Dynamic Environment: Thrive in a fast-paced startup setting with significant growth potential.
- Competitive Package: Attractive salary plus equity participation.
- Perks & Benefits: Corporate Benefits program, phone allowance, Deutsche Bahn ticket, and regular team offsites.
- Global Collaboration: Work with an ambitious, international, and collaborative team spread across Paris (HQ), Berlin, Antwerp, Los Angeles, New York City, and more.