American Express - Director - Payment Consulting

Director-Payment Consulting

- Payments consulting group (PCG ) is responsible for ensuring that the organization is abreast of the disruptive innovations entering the payments marketplace early in their development cycle to stay ahead of the curve.

- The Partnerships arm of the team is responsible for scouting the market for relevant potential partners, as well as the negotiation and execution of strategic commercial partnerships.

- This role will be responsible for managing network services and infrastructure for the Merchant Acquiring business in India to provide merchants across Point of Sale, Digital and Mobile commerce domain with payments processing expertise.

- Successful candidate will proactively align and collaborate with internal & external stakeholders like ACQUIRER Acquisition/Client management teams, merchants and issuers to develop and sell-in a range of POS and virtual point of sale products and solutions to enable new and existing merchant partners to efficiently transact on American Express network.

- The Director & Head of PCG will report directly to VP&GM-Consumer & Merchant Services and CEO AEBC India.

Job responsibilities include :

- The successful candidate will be responsible for staying abreast of the latest developments in emerging financial innovation spaces and researching the market to identify promising partnership opportunities

- This role will be responsible for leading negotiations with the major Banks and Third Party Processors at decision making levels.

- Focus on strategy implementation- primarily merchant enablement, areas of revenue growth, expense reduction, merchant enablement, E2E process management, and data security and integrity.

- Lead a team of Business Relationship consultants focused on enabling and activating key holdout signings and partnering with Client management to capture incremental discount business & revenue opportunities.

- Identify and implement more efficient and cost effective authorization and submission processes for key accounts.

- Manage PCG P&L including all financial metrics.

- Deliver on regulatory commitments that impact the merchant acquiring business

This role may be subject to additional background verification checks.