Director, Global Product Integration Job Listing at Mastercard in O'Fallon, MO (Job ID R-218392)

Description

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 Product Integration Overview
The Global Delivery Enablement team is looking for a Director, Global Product Integration, responsible for ensuring the successful, consistent, and scalable integration of new or significantly enhanced solutions. The ideal candidate is passionate about uncovering and delivering solutions that encourage positive top and bottom-line impact and growth; and has a solid ability to understand and expose key data assets that help increase awareness of trends and insights and drive business decisions. This individual is highly motivated, intellectually curious, strong collaborator, analytical, organized, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. This position requires initiative, critical thinking, thought leadership, and an understanding of go-to-market approaches and best practices. The individual in this position must be a proactive member of the organization with strong leadership skills to lead people effectively and ensure retainment of top talent. This role will have frequent interactions with Executive and Senior Level personnel.

o Are you a thought leader who can inspire action and change?
o Do you desire to gain a global perspective and exposure to new products and services excite you?
o Are you passionate about influencing products, processes, workforce management, and impacting what is next?
o Are you proficient with analyzing data, uncovering business insights, and driving stakeholder business discussions based on the findings?
o Do you possess expertise in designing and implementing loyalty programs, and can you leverage this experience to enhance customer engagement and retention strategies?

Role & responsibilities
o Manage global resources to ensure quality, consistency, and efficiency with adherence to GDE Methodology.
o Leads a dialogue with Global Product and Engineering owners in their vertical, utilizing this partnership to ensure Studio Framework Excellence and the successful integration of products, addressing, and incorporating Regional Product and Market Delivery feedback as needed. Utilizes loyalty experience to enhance customer-centric product development and engagement strategies.
o Drives and supports high-complexity initiatives and develops supporting strategies for scale in the market.
o Leads regular, ongoing, and formal business reviews with key stakeholders regarding product performance, improvement opportunities (i.e., automation), and delivery challenges; incorporating performance metrics, analytical dashboards, insights, VOC (Voice of Customer), and Regional Delivery feedback that leads to improvements in processes, products, and workforce management. Utilizes loyalty expertise to interpret feedback and data for enhancing customer loyalty strategies.
o Partners with regional delivery leaders & and teams to provide them with the knowledge, support, tools, processes, and documentation necessary to perform their job functions with efficiency and effectiveness.
o Develops a coordinated approach to ensuring regional customer delivery staff are trained on the products and related implementation processes.
o Proactively articulates delivery implementation requirements and partners with global product owners & and leadership of the vertical to achieve consistent, efficient, flawless, fast, and light customer touch onboarding.
o Leads critical strategic product integration efforts with their respective vertical through the global Studio process in partnership with the global product owners, technology teams, and other stakeholders.
o Foster a culture of consistency, accountability, and continuous improvement. Attract and retain highly effective talent through mentoring, coaching, development, appraisal, and motivation techniques.
o Leads/supports global initiatives to enhance the efficiency and continuous evolution of GDE Standards and Methodology.
o Collaborate with partners across Mastercard to enable integrated, automated, & and scalable tools & and reporting to improve the customer experience.
o Reviews delivery practices for efficiency & standardization opportunities; identifies global best practices & drive adoption through the GCD (Global Customer Delivery) organization.

All About You
o Experience in leveraging loyalty programs and understanding customer loyalty dynamics, contributing to the enhancement of Mastercard's products, services, and customer engagement strategies. This includes a deep comprehension of how loyalty experiences intertwine with the payment ecosystem, adding value to the customer journey and reinforcing brand allegiance.
o Understanding the payment ecosystem, value chain, & and substantial knowledge of Mastercard's products, services, data assets, & and hand-offs.
o Experience integrating multiple business factors to develop transformational strategies that promote business growth & and superior solutions, including forecasting needs & and setting goals for a function.
o Demonstrated success in leading complex or strategic initiatives across a matrixed organization.
o Record of accomplishment in global project management thought leadership, including designing, and updating product excellence frameworks.
o Demonstrated expertise in driving global initiatives & and facilitating partnerships with various stakeholders, including selecting talent & planning/allocating resources across multiple geographies & and functions, & and fostering partnerships with multiple stakeholders.
o Experience delivering presentations that require critical decision-making from senior leadership and have notable change management implications.
o Ability to quickly understand, assess, simplify, and articulate complex business and technical challenges/solutions.
o Comfortable with uncertainty, changing and fast-paced environment.
o Consulting mindset or product development experience required.
o Passionate about technology, with a genuine curiosity to learn and apply new concepts.
o Analytical and problem-solving skills (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control)
o Ability to build strong working relationships and to interact well with the customer, internal and external business partners, and with varying levels of management.
o Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to leverage these skills in a teaching environment.
o Self-starter with the ability to work independently and work flexible hours as needed to support global delivery teams.
o Ability to lead, negotiate, and drive change in a technical work environment.
o Team player with a willingness to share and transfer knowledge.
o Project management accreditation a plus (e.g., PMP (Project Management Professional)/ PRINCE2 / AGILE project management)
o Language skills a plus, will be working with regional teams.
o Certified expert in process design, Six Sigma, and SAFe accreditation a plus In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

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