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We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.\nThe Services Team\nThe Services team is the professional services arm of Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that address key issues facing our customers. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast, this team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology / security platforms, to provide powerful strategic insights and execution capabilities. Centered on data-driven technologies, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, security products, business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.\nThe Asia Pacific, Market-wide Initiatives Team\nThe market-wide initiatives team focuses on advancing our payment ecosystem’s development priorities at the country/regional level, by identifying pain-points that cut across multiple clients in a geography, designing market-wide services solutions in close collaboration with the Product organization.\nThe position will be expected to lead strategy and analysis that supports the wider organization. This will encompass many programs remit (mandates, Funds, Optional programs), including:\nOpportunity identification / origination at the market / regional level\nKey analysis to support proposal development\nValue quantification analysis for in-flight & pipeline programs\nSocialization with key stakeholders, integrate feedback, iterate proposal structure and secure approvals\nEnd-to-end execution and successful launch of strategic programs and initiatives\nYou will have the opportunity to own specific programs, prepare relevant documentation for strategic internal client engagements across a range of topics, countries and types of products. Working with data, you will generate key hypotheses and structure workstreams covering market problems. Overseeing ongoing business opportunities that are in-flight, program opportunity pipeline and closures, you will also create creative and useful analyses to address pain point, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations, and create effective, impactful storylines.\nYou will be part of Services team (erstwhile Advisors segment), partnering with product, A&CS, legal, finance, controllership, account managers, customer success etc. to design the right thematic product bundles for the markets. 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