Cards & Payments SME

My large Consultancy client is currently recruiting a Cards & Payments SME for an initial 6 month contract this role will be based in London with regular travel to Europe. The successful candidate will be expected to engage in the Customer Transition Programme work to design & develop the reimbursement and settlement software component that will process cards and payments transactions for Customer retailers, merchants and partners in approximately 29 countries globally, which represents more variations/complexities and volumes of transactions than the largest Acquirer in Europe (eg Barclaycard).

This program is a Reconciliation and Settlement, which is a hybrid between traditional Super merchants and Acquiring.

The role holder will understand this program (and other Payment opportunities presented to the client) and identify, package and drive new business "pull through" (ie Land and Expand) pursuit opportunities within the Customer and other Client Accounts.

The Role holder must have experience of understanding Commercially Off The Shelf (COTS) solutions and commoditizing functionalities, so these can be packaged for future new opportunities and provide extra revenues to existing accounts (ie add-ons).

The Role holder will drive and be responsible for:
o Identifying key card and payment opportunities in the Account and beyond
o Creating RFI and RFP outputs (or government alternative processes) representing the client's capabilities, the capabilities of the COTs providers and Industry Best Practices
o Design the Solution from an E2E business viewpoint and work with the Delivery capability to reflect the optimized combined Solutions
o Represent the client in any combined client/COTS provider solutions presentations to the end client and any client engagements where Payment Opportunities may exist
o Keep up to date on evolving payment landscape and ensure that the client and its partners are able to be at the forefront of these developments (eg Tokenisation, ISO20022, eBAMs, ApplePay, Wallets, Digital advertising, Loyalty, etc)
o Accountable for the quality/timeliness of the Business Team deliverables in pursuit and work with Delivery on any question that arise post signing of any opportunity

Applicants must be known in the Cards
o Setting up 2+ Cards and/or Payments Industry businesses and/or Initiatives (eg CHIP&PIN, PIN browser, Tokenisation, etc)
o Managing Schemes (eg VISA, MasterCard, etc) and third party solution providers (eg First Data, TSYS, HPS, etc) - Ideally to have completed the initial Card Scheme questionnaires (so that the Role understands what Delivery will have to know to get a Card Live)
o Understanding what Payment opportunities exist within a client, digest these and then present options of how they can evolve this strategy. (ie clients typically know how to be x% better, which is incremental. The winners understand what is possible and create new paradigms (ie transformational) to create first move advantages from their standpoint, in a repeatable manner.

The candidate should be a Strategist Level with more than 15 years of setting up and/or managing new business opportunities in Cards & Payments in 3+ countries around the world. The multiple countries demonstrates that knowledge varying card evolutions in different countries and is not a single country driven knowledge.

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