APEXX Global - Head of Product, Payment Optimisation

• Product Strategy & Commercial Ownership • Define and drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for APEXX’s Optimisation and Orchestration suite, ensuring clear differentiation and customer value. • Establish the commercial framework for optimisation, working with Finance, Sales, and Product Marketing to design value-based pricing models. • Lead the evolution of optimisation from a capability into a scalable product line, influencing its positioning, packaging, and monetisation. • Provide thought leadership across the organisation on the role of AI and data-driven optimisation in payments. • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery • Partner with Engineering and Data Science to develop AI/ML-powered optimisation features that improve authorisation, reduce cost, and drive measurable performance gains. • Work closely with Sales, Relationship Management, and Marketing teams to articulate product value and support commercial success across the portfolio. • Drive alignment across teams, ensuring strategic intent translates into customer-ready, high-impact product delivery. • Customer Value, Growth & Commercial Enablement • Translate model performance and analytical insights into ROI-focused, commercially compelling narratives for customers and internal stakeholders. • Enable Sales and Relationship Managers to position and sell optimisation as a premium, value-generating product. • Be the Subject matter expert on Interchange and Scheme fee pricing and optimisation opportunities. • Partner with customers to identify where data, AI, and automation can unlock incremental efficiency, acceptance rates, or cost reduction. • Contribute directly to upsell and cross-sell opportunities, helping turn product performance into revenue growth. • Product Excellence & Evidence Driven Decision Making • Define success metrics, experimentation frameworks, and governance around optimisation performance. • Promote strong product management discipline — discovery, validation, delivery, and measurement — across optimisation workstreams. • Use data and evidence to balance strategic ambition with operational focus, ensuring decisions are measurable and outcomes are sustainable.