Campus Graduate Masters Summer Internship Program

About the Role

The Global Merchant & Network Pricing (GMNP) team is responsible for merchant discount revenue, the single largest source of revenue for American Express. The team collaborates with business partners to establish pricing structures that promote merchant acceptance of American Express, aiming to improve coverage and merchant satisfaction. The team's objective is to drive merchant revenue and profit growth through customer-centric pricing principles, flexible pricing architecture, and innovative pricing solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop actionable insights and provide analytical support for strategic merchant pricing initiatives.
• Support high-profile projects with significant impact on American Express alongside senior leaders in Pricing and Client Management.
• Develop pricing approaches or constructs based on quantitative data analysis and provide recommendations on key financial/commercial terms.
• Leverage internal and external data, competitive intelligence, and industry research to inform pricing strategies and maintain pricing integrity.
• Evaluate business cases for merchant pricing scenarios, model P&L impacts, and perform sensitivity analyses for agile business decisions.
• Build relationships with partners in the Client Management organization to drive team accountability and achieve stated goals.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Critical thinking: Ability to work through unstructured problems and develop clear, data-driven insights.
• Relationship management and collaboration skills: Ability to influence others in situations with differing goals.
• Intellectual curiosity: High intellectual curiosity, creative thinking, and willingness to question traditional approaches.
• Effective communicator and influencer: Excellent written and oral communication skills with strong executive presence to structure information for decision-making.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: Proactive self-starter in a fast-paced, dynamic environment focused on driving results.
• Problem solving: Strong analytical and financial acumen, including familiarity with financial modeling and sensitivity analysis in Excel.
• Experience in the payments industry or consulting a plus.
• SAS / SQL a plus.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a full-time Master’s degree program (MBA preferred).
• Master’s degree candidates with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and June 2028.
• 2 years’ minimum of professional experience in strategy, consulting, finance, analytics or related.
• Graduate students enrolled in Finance, Business, Accounting, or related fields.
• Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required.