Merchant Acquiring Product Management, Global Solutions

Job Description:

Job Title:

Merchant Acquiring Product Management, Global Payment Solutions Corporate

Title:

Vice President

Location:

London, United Kingdom

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’s physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.

Global Payment Solutions (GPS) is seeking a high-potential Vice President to support the management and evolution of our EMEA Merchant Acquiring product portfolio. This role is designed for an experienced product professional looking to broaden their strategic, commercial, and leadership capabilities with a view to progressing into a senior Product Manager or Director-level role within the next 3-5 years. Working directly with senior product leadership, the successful candidate will help drive product strategy, commercial growth, risk management, client experience improvements, and product development initiatives across merchant acquiring, gateways, and value-added payment services.

The role provides end-to-end exposure to the product lifecycle and offers the opportunity to become a future business owner for a major payments franchise. This position combines hands‑on product management responsibilities with increasing leadership exposure, allowing the individual to develop the strategic, financial, risk and stakeholder‑management skills required for future senior leadership positions. The Vice President will support the Product Director and senior leadership team in managing the profitability, growth, governance and development of the EMEA Merchant Services Portfolio across card acquiring and gateway solutions.

The role will contribute to strategic initiatives, product development, market expansion, regulatory compliance, and customer experience improvements while gradually assuming ownership of increasingly complex product domains and strategic initiatives. Success in this role will be measured not only by delivery performance, but also by demonstrated readiness to lead larger product portfolios and eventually assume full business ownership responsibilities.

• Help shape the future of the EMEA Merchant Acquiring business by contributing to product strategy, portfolio evolution and long-term roadmap planning.
• Conduct market, competitor and industry analysis to identify emerging opportunities, customer needs and competitive threats, while developing business cases to support investment decisions, new capabilities, strategic partnerships and market expansion initiatives.
• Drive the development and enhancement of merchant acquiring products and services across the end-to-end payments lifecycle, including merchant onboarding, authorisation, clearing, settlement, funding, reconciliation, reporting, billing, and dispute management.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen client value propositions, improve operational efficiency and deliver market‑leading payment acceptance…