CMSPI

Consultant

• **Role Overview**
• CMSPI Associate Consultants play an integral role within our Consulting team, where they combine payments knowledge with in-depth and meaningful analytics, to discover exciting opportunities that drive optimization across our clients’ payment arrangements.
• Produce high quality deliverables to support strong client engagement with Fortune 500 companies.
• Perform in-depth analysis on our clients' complex payment data, review acceptance processes for their key payment methods, benchmark key performance indicators, and provide industry research to demonstrate CMSPI’s payments knowledge where required.
• Use CMSPI methodologies and entrepreneurial initiative to suggest opportunities and improvements that our clients can explore to optimize their arrangements, all supported by intelligent and detailed data analytics.
• Accompany project teams to client meetings to present your findings, and to provide technical and analytical insight and support.
• Uncover hard to find opportunities within our client’s payments data, utilizing CMSPI’s proprietary data platform and products, and other advanced analytics tools.
• Produce accurate reports to communicate directly with clients through various methods including PowerBI, written reports, presentations, and data visualization of payments analytics.
• Work closely with Engagement Managers to execute benchmarking analysis, negotiation strategies, and other project deliverables.
• Assist in the review of commercial contracts and Service Level Agreements for CMSPI and the client.
• Gain a thorough understanding of each of the markets that CMSPI operates in and our core consulting product offerings.
• Share knowledge from project experiences with the wider business to promote innovation of thinking and outcomes.

Associate Consultant

Account Manager

• Lead and scale CMSPI’s Tier 1 partner relationships, acting as the senior executive point of contact.
• Foster long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships through executive presence, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and the ability to influence outcomes in complex, high-stakes environments.
• Build and execute structured engagement models (QBRs, executive forums, co-innovation sessions) that drive sustained partner engagement and satisfaction.
• Identify and deliver mutual value creation opportunities, including co-developed initiatives, joint solutions, and shared market propositions.
• Expand CMSPI’s global partner network, strengthening connectivity across strategy, product, data, and innovation teams.
• Actively position CMSPI in the ecosystem, deepening relationships that compound in value over time.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for partner-enabled data access, including identifying and securing supplemental and alternative data sources aligned to CMSPI priorities.
• Drive the evolution of CMSPI’s data ecosystem toward more automated, scalable, and real-time ingestion models (APIs, standardized pipelines).
• Identify how partner data can support CMSPI’s future-state capabilities.
• Ensure all data unlocked is validated, normalized, and usable at scale.
• Identify market intelligence gaps and proactively feed opportunities into CMSPI’s Solutions and Insights teams.
• Shape how partner-enabled data is utilized to create tangible merchant insights and scalable offerings that reinforce CMSPI’s independent positioning.
• Act as a key conduit between external ecosystem signals and internal strategy development.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across global partner organizations, demonstrating discretion, sound judgment, cultural intelligence, and the ability to manage sensitive and confidential matters with integrity.
• Drive time-to-value from partnerships, accelerating the conversion of data access into client outcomes and transaction performance and optimization initiatives.
• Contribute directly and indirectly to sales, client growth, and commercial targets by enabling differentiated capabilities.
• Support RFPs, client engagements, and strategic pursuits with partner-enabled insights and propositions.
• Balance strategic partnership value with commercial outcomes, ensuring alignment to CMSPI growth priorities.
• Proactively manage partner risk, dependency, and concentration exposure through proactive and ongoing partner engagement – focus on creating strategic, mutual value for all CMSPI partners.
• Establish best practices for data governance, compliance, and engagement frameworks across partners.
• Ensure consistency in partner communications, data handling, and operating models.
• Act as an internal connector and influencer, ensuring partner-driven insights are embedded across CMSPI teams.
• Work closely with Delivery, Data, Solutions, Insights, Sales, and Marketing to align ecosystem activity with business priorities.
• Provide strategic input into CMSPI’s broader product, data, and partnership roadmap.
• Operate with high visibility to senior and executive leadership, contributing to firm-wide strategy.

Associate Consultant

Director of Strategic Partnerships