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This includes the management of our relationships across the globe with both the millions of merchants who accept American Express, as well as our partners in countries and territories that deliver card acceptance, issuance and innovation.\nThe EMEA Telesales and Client Management organization is a team of different nationalities speaking more than 28 languages based in Madrid. Our teams successfully acquire and manage relationships with merchants in all European Markets.\nAs an European hub, based in our new European Head office, we offer a rewarding package and the opportunity to work at one of Spain's premier employer brands.\nThe main objective of the Client Retention Manager colleague is to focus on account retention with small and medium key merchants and ensure business continuation collaborating across markets and Line Of Business’s ensuring full acceptance and engagement within the portfolio\n Retaining a Merchant, reaching out to collect missing Know Your Customer documentation and information from high value merchants avoiding cancellation\n\nAssess account documentation\n\nRetaining volumes and revenue\n\nEnsure compliance and control\n\nBest practice sharing and team support\n\nService across multiple channels including phone (inbound and outbound) and e-mail\n\n Excellent critical thinking, time management and analytical skills required.\nExcellent verbal and written communication & relationship building skills.\nFluency in English both written and verbal\nHigh attention to detail with an agile problem-solving mindset. \nFlexible to work any schedule based on business need.\nExperience in account management roles or KYC/AML Checks - ideally over the phone.\nCompliance knowledge is a plus.\nStrong organizational and time management skills, able to set priorities to achieve goals.\nAccountability and ownership.\nHigh level of determination and self-confidence, ability to work in groups and contribute to the team’s success.\nEmployment eligibility to work with American Express in Spain is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2196,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"region"},{"name":"France","iso":"FR","kind":"region"},{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"region"},{"name":"Austria","iso":"AT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Belgium","iso":"BE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Bulgaria","iso":"BG","kind":"region"},{"name":"Croatia","iso":"HR","kind":"region"},{"name":"Czech Republic","iso":"CZ","kind":"region"},{"name":"Denmark","iso":"DK","kind":"region"},{"name":"Finland","iso":"FI","kind":"region"},{"name":"Hungary","iso":"HU","kind":"region"},{"name":"Ireland","iso":"IE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Italy","iso":"IT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"region"},{"name":"Norway","iso":"NO","kind":"region"},{"name":"Poland","iso":"PL","kind":"region"},{"name":"Romania","iso":"RO","kind":"region"},{"name":"Spain","iso":"ES","kind":"region"},{"name":"Sweden","iso":"SE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Switzerland","iso":"CH","kind":"region"},{"name":"Estonia","iso":"EE","kind":"region"},{"name":"Greece","iso":"GR","kind":"region"},{"name":"Iceland","iso":"IS","kind":"region"},{"name":"Latvia","iso":"LV","kind":"region"},{"name":"Liechtenstein","iso":"LI","kind":"region"},{"name":"Lithuania","iso":"LT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Luxembourg","iso":"LU","kind":"region"},{"name":"Malta","iso":"MT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Portugal","iso":"PT","kind":"region"},{"name":"Slovakia","iso":"SK","kind":"region"},{"name":"Slovenia","iso":"SI","kind":"region"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Credit Cards"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T17:22:33Z"}],"liveness":{"score":84,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.841,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/american-express-merchant-support-specialist-uk-market","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/american-express-merchant-support-specialist-uk-market.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T18:01:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}