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Title and Summary
Vice President, Business Development
Dimension
Responsible for business development support to all Country Managers in the Division. Work with Country Managers to establish and execute on short and long-term financial, operating and business objectives in alignment with country plans. Monitor, analyse and report on business metrics for the Division to aid management decision making.
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Primary Duties/ Responsibilities
The job holder will work directly with the Country Managers to:
• Manage business development opportunities for assigned prospects and accounts, including monitoring customer satisfaction.
• Analyze customers' existing business through profitability modeling, financial forecasting and competitive analysis and recommend opportunities for additional revenue
• Develop financial modeling and business cases for identified opportunities
• Develop and report on sales pipeline leveraging all available resources in coordination with the product development and account management teams
• Identify opportunities to sell new products to existing customers
• Develop long-term growth strategies to optimize mutual profitability across debit, credit and other business lines
• Work with virtual team of MasterCard subject matter experts to strategically articulate value propositions to close new business opportunities
• Maintain responsibility for all administrative and operations issues for assigned business development opportunities including planning, reporting, budget and expense management.
Skills
• Business acumen
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Self-starter with an ability to work independently
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication in English.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple projects/programs
• Strong team player, decisive and results driven, with high energy levels and initiative
• Organization and time management skills
• Exceptional business judgment and strategic planning skills
• Business Case development, including financial analytics
• Budget preparation and management
Education
• Relevant Degree preferred
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.