Manager, Enterprise Strategy

Manager, Enterprise Strategy at Mastercard

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

The Global Open Banking and API team is responsible for developing and building the future of open banking and a developer-first approach that propels innovation with fintech and other partners, in support of realizing Mastercard’s multi-rail potential. The Manager, Competitive Intelligence will be responsible for supporting the development and refinement of our strategy alongside helping gather and analyze competitive insights to help create a sustained competitive advantage.

• Do you enjoy working on complex business problems?
• Are you adept at communicating complex ideas effectively?
• Have you ever successfully influenced others on your strategic point of view?
• Are you motivated by a dynamic, changing business environment and its opportunities and challenges?

Role

The Manager will have a proven track record of working effectively in a team to drive to successful outcomes, exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, and strong written and verbal communication skills. More specifically, the candidate will be responsible for:

• Leading projects or work streams related to growth, developing presentations, generating research insights, undertaking complex analysis to support recommendations
• Bringing competitor insights to help identify product development opportunities to ensure customer needs are met and roadmap is aligned to market
• Building compelling business cases and drive buy-in to ensure execution
• Identifying key issues, defining problem statements, evaluating options; and formulating underlying action plans to begin developing solutions
• Supporting operations across the business, inclusive of budget management, quarterly business reviews, KPI tracking, Studio process, planning, and risk management

All About You

• Strong business and financial intuition; Consulting experience a plus
• Excellent organizational skills
• Initiative-taker, results driven with high energy levels
• Track record of accomplishments impact in professional, academic, and/or personal setting
• Experience managing a team, and influencing teammates towards an objective
• Ability to execute against multiple initiatives and excel in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, break down complex asks into tangible steps
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Experience working on a cross-functional team/project to come up with the best solution
• Strong problem-solving analytical skills and comfortable using data to support thinking/recommendations
• Be a good collaborator and listener, influencer and able to navigate a matrixed organization and reporting structure. Be able to navigate ambiguity with ease.
• Strong communication skills, executive presentations in both written/oral communications

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.