Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors Business Development

Mastercard Advisors is a key differentiator for the company, providing cutting-edge services that help our customers achieve their objectives. Focused on big ideas which are scalable in a fast-paced business environment, we are responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, our services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, and data-driven analytic platforms.

Mastercard Advisors comprises of a diverse and dynamic team of experts who enjoy working in a goal-oriented and collaborative culture. As a member of our sales team, you will be on the frontlines - building excitement and generating demand for our unique services - while partnering with solutions experts to achieve the desired end. As part of the team, you will directly contribute to our customers' success stories as well as to Mastercard's positioning as a payments services leader.

Role

Role Description and Major Responsibilities
• Lead business development meetings and new client development across all lines of Services for an assigned set of accounts in United Arab Emirates and Oman
• Deliver against sales targets for existing accounts and/or contribute to MasterCard deal bids
• Capture senior and mid-level clients' implicit business needs in addition to articulated requests, and identify most critical aspects of the problem
• Translate objectives into key hypotheses and structure work for large/complex projects or ill-defined problems
• Contribute to formal and informal pitches, from "storyboarding" through face-to-face presentation
• Create succinct, persuasive written materials tailored to the "level" of the audience
• Contribute to project delivery, quickly identifying shortcomings in projects and take remedial action
• Manage complete capture of assignment knowledge and drive to ensure it is available firm-wide (knowledge management)
• Contribute as a thought leader to the development of intellectual capital, point of views, articles, and blogs
• Leverage deep knowledge of all the Mastercard Services capabilities and how they fit together to offer new innovative solutions
• Support internal stakeholders including and not limited to country account management and customer solutions center team

All About You

Education Needed
• Undergraduate degree required
• MBA or relevant post graduate degree recommended

Experience and Skills Needed

• Experience in top management consulting firms and in relevant industry
• Knowledge of payments market, trends and opportunities
• Demonstrates the ability to initiate, develop, and close a sale
• Distinctive verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills, including ability to frame the customer's opportunity in financial terms (i.e. value quantification)
• Ability to think from the perspective of the customer
• Ability to gain consensus with others and coordinate team of consultants and subject matter experts around goal
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Proficiency in written and verbal English

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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.