Director, Product Management Job Listing at Mastercard in London, England (Job ID R-247613)

Description

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

Director, Product Management Overview: We are seeking a proactive and dynamic Director to drive key strategic initiatives and activities within our organization. This role is crucial in shaping the strategic direction of our business operations and ensuring the successful implementation of high-impact projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in strategic planning, market analysis, and team collaboration. This role requires a strategic thinker with a keen ability to identify opportunities and translate them into actionable plans to enhance our business operations and market position.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning: Develop and implement comprehensive business strategies that align with the company's overall vision and goals.

Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market research to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities in the industry. Use insights to inform business strategy and development.

Project Oversight: Lead the execution of key strategic initiatives from concept to completion, ensuring that projects meet business needs and are delivered on time and within budget.

Cabinet Organization and Meeting Management: Organize and manage executive cabinets by preparing and distributing all necessary materials and information in advance. Chair key strategic meetings to ensure discussions are productive and aligned with the company's strategic goals. Prepare comprehensive materials for meetings, including agendas, presentations, and reports, to facilitate informed decision-making.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with various departments, including Franchise, marketing, sales, and operations, to ensure strategic goals are integrated across all functions.

Performance Metrics: Define and analyze key performance indicators to evaluate the success of business strategies and make data-driven decisions for future initiatives.

Stakeholder Communication: Serve as a key point of contact for strategic matters among executive leadership, providing regular updates and strategic recommendations.

All About You:

A proactive leader with strong management skills and the proven ability to build and inspire teams to achieve objectives.

Excellence in strategic planning and end-to-end project management.

Experience in managing the development of business strategies with and for financial institutions and schemes. Background in cross-border operations, financial crime, open banking, gateways, value-added services, or wallets is necessary.

A commercial focus that leads to corporate growth through proven experience in business case development, revenue generation, and cost control.

A communicator and influencer, with the ability to forge strong relationships at all levels.

Demonstrated leadership capabilities to drive alignment across a matrixed organization and teams.

Outstanding collaboration and interpersonal communication skills.

Ability to think strategically about complex issues, driving thoughtful recommendations and action plans.

Ability to multi-task and work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Ability to quickly conceptualize and express lines of thinking.

Account-to-account payments experience is desirable.

Industry thought leader with a broader market background, capable of setting a vision.

Skills and Competencies:

INNOVATIVE: Not afraid to challenge the status quo, question assumptions, and generate new ideas by looking at issues from multiple angles.

CURIOUS: Open to learning and exploring new technologies, information, and practices; interested in understanding how things work.

FLEXIBLE: Remains engaged during stressful situations brought on by ambiguity and conflict.

COURAGEOUS: Takes calculated risks and purposefully puts self in challenging situations where success is not always guaranteed.

CONNECTOR: Takes time to reflect on experiences; spends focused energy processing information, gaining deeper insights into problems, themselves, and others as a result.

COMMERCIAL: Has a strong sense of commercial value both for clients and for the company and can create value propositions that translate between these.

And Have/Be:

Critical thinker, curious about the world, and able to translate curiosity into strategic issues and resolve them by working with others to create actionable outputs.

Highly organized, can manage multiple efforts in a structured way, and able to independently deliver responsibilities on time.

Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, able to confidently work across all levels and tailor messages depending on the audience and objective. Must have persuasive “presence” and the ability to effectively communicate technology to businesspeople and business to technology people.

Highly collaborative with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across multiple functional areas to engage and influence business partners.

High energy, can-do attitude, strong desire to succeed.

Leadership skills—must be able to influence others without reporting relationships.

Analytical and strategic skills.

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.

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