Senior Specialist, Product Management - Fintech Scanner, Business Intelligence Innovate

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

The role will lead initiatives to support the growth and scalability of the Business Intelligence Innovate product - Fintech Scanner globally.

Role:

• Develops and manages content for the Fintech Scanner product - including development of research reports, planning and executing events (virtual and n-person)
• Contributes towards the development of strategies and programs for large, strategically important global clients
• Obtain data from multiple sources, collate, analyse and triangulate information to develop reliable fact bases and reports
• Apply a range of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to rigorously identify client issues and synthesise the analysis into clear, sound recommendations
• Structure and prepare draft reports and client steering committee presentations
• Present draft reports to key stakeholders for review and feedback
• Extract intellectual capital from engagement work and actively develop and share tools, methods and best practices across projects
• Build network of contacts and internal relationships across Mastercard to support information gathering and data analysis
• Support product roadmap implementation activities with the global Product Management team
• Support sales team as product specialists, providing sales enablement materials/trainings and support when needed
• Consolidate product feedback received by markets (or by customer success managers) and provide product improvement recommendations
• Support product new launch across different regions: prepare the product for the launch, support product awareness, identify users target and support technical onboarding

All About You:

• Connection to the fintech community and “startup world” a distinct advantage
• Executive-level presentation skills-must have persuasive “presence” and ability to effectively communicate technology to business people and business to technology people.
• Understanding / experience of innovation frameworks and practical technology application experience. Payments technology knowledge or experience in the industry would be an advantage.
• Leadership skills-must be able to influence others and navigate complex relationship scenarios & must be able to influence others without direct reporting relationships.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.

• Willingness to travel internationally

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.