Title and Summary

Director, Product Strategy

Job Title: Director, Product Strategy - Consumer Products and Processing

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Director, Global Strategy and Product Operations, Consumer Products and Processing

Overview:
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

The Strategy & Product Operation team leads strategy, business insight and analytics, product operations, risk and compliance for Global Consumer Products and Processing. This team is responsible for working cross-functionally to drive greater alignment and collaboration to enable a seamless organization that moves faster and delivers the best consumer experience.

Responsibilities

As Director, Product strategy your key responsibilities are

-Direct the development of product strategies within the Consumer Products and Processing group as well as ensure progress of these strategies.
-Balance facilitation, influence, and content contributions to help business leaders design and advance their strategies, ensuring alignment with the corporate strategy.
-Apply strategic and analytical rigor to product strategies to drive structure and deeper insight; acting as a thought partner to the business to help prioritize and structure an exciting strategic and innovation agenda.
-Develop and execute robust communications aligning priorities and addressing support needs for internal stakeholders (Board presentations, Management Committee).
-Support strategic alignment with regions and Business Units on targets and KPIs.

Qualifications

-Experience in strategy consulting or developing go-to-market strategies for product
-Relevant Payment Industry Expertise
-Strong communication & influencing skills (verbally & written) to work with internal and external stakeholders, with ability to clearly articulate problem statements and opportunity areas
-Extensive experience of translating strategies to execution plans, driving end to end execution - particularly in a cross-functional environment, managing and prioritizing competing initiatives
-Global or multi-national business experience strongly preferred
-Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis
-Ability to lead multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
-Experience in M&A and/or corporate development

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.