Payments Strategy Consultant (Sales) - 12 months contract - London / Hybrid - 2days on site a week.

Payments Strategy Consultant (Sales) - 12 months contract - London /Hybrid - 2 days on site a week.

My client in the payments marketplace are putting together a new way of working/strategy with respect to payments merchant acceptance and how payments are accepted by their clients and promoted by their business development team/sales team., Support the International Acceptance strategy by turning data into clear insights, improving KPI reporting, and helping operationalise our market playbooks. You will work closely with Strategy, Data, sales/partnerships to keep our acceptance programme moving with speed and discipline., Build and maintain core dashboards (Spend Coverage, Location Coverage, Customer Journey lists, GTM lists). Clean, structure, and validate merchant, acquirer and BIN-level data to ensure accuracy and trust in reporting. Analyse market, merchant, and partner performance and surface clear insights for senior leadership. Support operational governance: status tracking, KPI baselines, templates, and monthly/quarterly reviews. Prepare presentations and one-pagers for internal stakeholders (VPs, President, Data, GTM). Help coordinate delivery across markets (UK, MX, FR, ES, IT, JP), acting as a connector across teams. Assist with ad-hoc analysis and PowerPoint draft development.

This role will be supporting that team by gathering data, helping define and document strategy, producing reports from data and presenting so have good PowerPoint experience. Help assist with go-to-market solutions, define the landscape. Must have a high-level understanding of strategy, sales and payments, ideally from card schemes.

Have good organisational and coordination skills. Must have a consulting mindset, good analytical skills and be able to present data to sales people., Strong analytical mindset; confident in Excel/Sheets and SQL and ideally Snowflake. Though tech skills not essential. Ability to clean and structure messy data with discipline. Clear, simple written communication; able to translate data into business implications. High ownership, reliable follow-through, and comfort working with ambiguity. Curiosity about and ideally experience in payments, merchants, PSPs, and the global acquiring and payment network ecosystem. A team-first attitude: organised, structured, proactive, and eager to learn.