POS and Payment Manager

Compass Group UK&I partners work with well-known brands and businesses to make sure that we can offer competitive pricing for our products whether it be in a store, in a restaurant, café – wherever in our business.

This is a pivotal role to lead, manage, develop and execute the POS & payment strategies aligned to the overall Digital & Technology strategy.  Using a detailed knowledge of POS systems and the Payments value chain, this role will be required to manage the multi-layered relationships between strategic Partners, suppliers, internal stakeholders and external clients

A core focus of the role will be to ensure the existing and any new POS & payment products add value to the end customer and are aligned to Compass Group UK&I strategy and Key Digital & Technology controls and standards.

Responsibilities

• Articulate the POS & Payments vision, strategy & key value benefits to key internal stakeholders, all business sectors and ensure the POS & Payment products are clearly understood & represented in both new bids and retention sales
• Deliver, track and manage the new POS strategy
• In collaboration with key strategic partners drive the ideation, innovation and development of new product enhancements or new product features.  Ensure all POS & Payment products are grounded in robust insight & data are underpinned by clear customer need.
• Defining & translating high level business requirements to help the development teams understand what is needed when designing, building, testing & implementing either new feature enhancements or large change
• Build, embed and maintain a robust and aligned governance structure for POS & Payments to including Technology partner & supplier performance management for delivery of digital technology roadmap.
• Deliver new and updated process documentation to reflect new procedures and changes to processes to ensure continual compliance with key security controls & standards and Profit Protection. 
• Reporting & Metrics - Responsible for delivering against key quantitative and qualitative performance metrics.

Ideal Candidate

• Essential understanding & knowledge of Payments value chain
• In depth knowledge & understanding of end to end POS systems in retail environment
• Excellent influence and persuasion skills to ensure constructive relationships with key business stakeholders and third-party vendors
• Experience preparing business cases and preparation for financial approval Experience in management of projects, software projects and their successful delivery
• Understanding the technical implications of what the business owner is asking for and ability to translate to IT and third parties
• Excellent stakeholder experience with proven experience of building and nurturing key relationships that hold the ability to influence decision
• Unrivalled communication with the confidence but build key documentation with the correct information to cascade through the business

Package Details

POS and Payment Manager 

• Competitive basic salary
• UK wide - Remote working
• Enhanced holiday package
• Pension scheme

About Us

As part of Compass, you have the opportunity to work behind the scenes at sports and leisure events, oilrigs and military bases, and in the heart of schools, hospitals, care homes, client offices and boardrooms – some 6,000+ locations across the UK and Ireland.

We do it all and so could you. Apply now and join the family!

We are an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for all employees.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received.  You are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.