About Us Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others. Your role The Merchant Retention Lead owns the retention and reactivation of unmanaged SMB merchants across the UAE. This role leads a team of specialists who contact churned merchants to understand why they stopped transacting and resolve or escalate the issue. The team also proactively monitors unmanaged merchants whose order volume is slowing down, identifies the reasons behind the decline, and provides the right support before they fully churn. Your responsibilities: Team leadership and execution: Lead, coach, and performance-manage a team of Specialists Set team priorities, merchant portfolios, outreach targets, and follow-up SLAs Establish a clear daily and weekly operating rhythm for calls, follow-ups, escalations, and performance reviews Monitor call quality, CRM updates, and action-plan execution Ensure each merchant case has a clear churn or slowdown reason, next action, owner, and follow-up date Churn and slowdown management Own outreach to churned merchants with no orders for a predetermined number of days Build an early-intervention approach for unmanaged merchants whose transaction volume is slowing down Ensure the team identifies the root cause behind churn or declining activity through structured merchant conversations Define action plans for each churn reason, including issue resolution, training, product support, or escalation Track merchants through the recovery journey and confirm whether they resume transacting SOPs, frameworks, and i
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About Us Tamara is a leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region with a mission to help people own their dreams built on being simple, trusted, and everywhere our customers need us. Today, more than 25 million customers and over 130,000 partner merchants depend on Tamara every day for reliable financial solutions across retail, travel, education, healthcare, and beyond. Tamara is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), and SNB Capital, among others. Your role The Merchant Success Lead owns the Day 0–30 post-live health and early transaction performance of SMB merchants across the UAE. This role leads a team of Merchant Success team members across Dubai, Sharjah, and Abu Dhabi and is accountable for ensuring merchants are operationally ready, properly trained, visibly set up, and supported to reach an impactful daily tran
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Tamara
Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in the region and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA and Amazon, as well as small and medium businesses. Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, amongst others. The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices.
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