.**You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.**With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. Here, you'll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that's unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.At American Express, you'll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company's success. Together, we'll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world's best customer experience every day. And we'll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.**How will you make an impact in this role?**The Global Merchant Pricing organization is responsible for the single largest source of American Express' revenue: merchant discount revenue. The team works closely with multiple business partners to determine the most compelling pricing structure to encourage merchant acceptance of American Express, while striving to improve coverage and merchant satisfaction. We drive merchant revenue and profit growth through customer-centric pricing principles, more effective and flexible pricing architecture and innovative pricing solutions.The Manager, LAC Pricing is a key role in the market and requires knowledge of all aspects of the merchant business. The primary responsibility of this role is to manage our merchant discount revenue and other merchant revenue streams that maximizes the strategic value of our premium network. This role also supports and drives pricing initiatives across the market with the goals of volume generation, enhancing efficiency, driving merchant satisfaction and retention.**Responsibilities**:- Support forecasting efforts, including monthly variance analysis and reporting.- Develop pricing strategies based on quantitative data analytics and provide recommendations on key financial / commercial terms during merchant negotiations.- Evaluate business cases for various merchant pricing scenarios, model P&L impacts, and perform sensitivity analyses to drive agile business decisions.- Draw merchant-specific insights from internal data (transactions, merchant profiles, etc.) and external data (analyst reports, industry research, etc.) to identify key opportunities and challenges during a negotiation.- Support overall pricing strategies across all merchant segments.- Lead Cross-functional teams to manage and implement all aspects of the pricing process including pricing approvals, contract reviews and pricing audits