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Planet

Planet

Payments and commerce software provider

Key Account Manager

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
London, UK+1 more

More locations: Dublin, Ireland

Hybrid

Three days per week in the office are required.

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven success in enterprise sales or key account management with large, complex clients.
  • Strong payments industry knowledge, including acquiring, omnichannel payments, foreign exchange, or tax-free shopping solutions.
  • A track record of driving commercial growth through payments and value-added services.
  • Ability to position payments and tax-free solutions as strategic revenue drivers rather than cost centers.
  • Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills, including at executive level.
  • Strategic thinking with a strong execution focus.
Responsibilities
  • Own and grow strategic enterprise accounts by managing a portfolio of high-value global clients across EMEA.
  • Drive commercial growth by identifying, shaping, and closing expansion opportunities across payments and tax-free solutions.
  • Help clients evolve payments and tax-free solutions from operational necessities into drivers of revenue, conversion, and customer experience.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and act as a strategic partner to clients.
  • Develop and execute account growth plans that align client ambition with Planet’s commercial capabilities.
  • Unlock cross-selling opportunities across payment solutions, tax-free services, and value-added services to maximize client revenue potential.
  • Coordinate internal product, delivery, and support teams to ensure seamless execution.
  • Bring insight into payments, retail innovation, and international shopper behavior.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working across EMEA markets.
  • High energy and resilience in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.

About the company

Planet works as a payments and commerce-software provider. It supplies payment acceptance, property-management software, tax-free shopping, and connected commerce capabilities to hospitality, retail, and financial-services customers. Its operating model is specific: software and payment infrastructure connect merchants, guests, shoppers, banks, and acquiring partners. Work includes engineering, product, payment operations, implementation, sales, risk, support, and corporate functions. The profile is Planet's global payments and software organization. The workforce connects regulated client service with technology, risk, operations, and professional support.

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Headquarters

Helsinki, Finland

Founded

1985

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Zucchetti and Planet launched a February 2026 checkout product across hospitality and retail.
  • Nexi rollout began in the Nordics in 2025, expanding European hospitality distribution.
  • Planet's 2025 Tevalis partnership and 2024 Xn protel expansion extend global site coverage.

What critics are saying

  • The 2026 layoff round cut 60 employees, signaling margin pressure and integration strain.
  • Planet still depends on partner ecosystems like Xn protel, Zucchetti, and Nexi for reach.
  • If booking and payment rivals bundle PMS cheaper, Planet's hospitality moat erodes fast.

What makes Planet unique

  • Planet bundles hospitality software, payments, tax-free, and POS integration across Europe in 2026.
  • Its 2025 Nexi partnership and 2026 Zucchetti deal deepen embedded distribution and acceptance.
  • Acquired Protel, Avantio, and Tevalis relationships to own hotel workflows end-to-end.

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Company News

PhocusWire
Jan 11th, 2023
Planet Expands Hospitality Footprint With Three Acquisitions

Hospitality software and payments services provider Planet has acquired three hotel software distributors: Ideosoft, Rebagdata and XN PMS Limited. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.London-based Planet says it acquired Protel in March 2022 to extend its reach in the hotel industry. The three companies it just acquired all re-sell Protel software to customers in Europe.“We’re continuing to invest in growing our hospitality business and cementing our leading position in the market as a provider of connected commerce solutions that enhance the guest experience and generate more revenue for hoteliers,” says Lennert De Jong, Planet's president of hospitality who joined the company in September after 16 years at CitizenM. . Get a dose of digital travel in your inbox each day

Rebag
Dec 12th, 2022
PLANET ACQUIRES REBAG DATA - rebag data

LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Planet acquires REBAG DATA to drive growth in the Swiss hospitality market   Acquisition adds over 1,000 hotel locations in Switzerland to Planet’s fast growing hospitality customer base Reinforces Planet’s position as a leading provider of connected commerce for hospitality Hoteliers better equipped to deliver memorable guest experiences, thanks to the integration […]