Director, Product Management 6 Month Fixed Term Contract in England

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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. 

Job Title

Director, Product Management 6 Month Fixed Term ContractWho is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 6-month fixed term contract in the NPP Infrastructure team, supporting the ground-breaking P27 program in the Nordics with the bulk payment service offering.

Reporting to the regional Commercialisation lead and working closely with the P27 program team you will join an established team as we develop and bring multi-currency bulk services to market. The first service order was placed earlier in the year for a Swedish Krona service (SEK Batch) and the Danish Krona service (DKK Batch) order has recently been requested.

The initial focus will be to support the finalisation of the DKK Batch elaboration, working closely with our Product Owners and Solution Architects to achieve sign-off of all requirements in readiness for our software development teams. In addition, the role will play a pivotal role in the planning and commencement on the next Batch elaboration due to begin imminently. In addition, the role is the ‘Voice of Product' into the program and with the local market stakeholders as we prepare for market engagement and thought leadership activities.

The role provides a highly influential opportunity for wide senior stakeholder management across a large cross functional and markets.

Role
• This role is a critical component in supporting the creation of a successful and scalable global product line that is able to respond to and leverage the significant benefits associated with NPP within MasterCard.
• This role will be focused on supporting the P27 region, based in London. As a designated representative of Global Product, the role will be accountable for ensuring that the region and program has everything they need (product sales collateral, technical documentation, training, roadmap strategy, commercial framework) to execute a successful client engagement from initial market engagement to implementation.
• Director, Product Management is accountable for the product implementation strategy for the Bulk Payment Product Suite and providing the voice of Product for the capture and elaboration of requirements for the upcoming customer commitments to deliver Bulk services in Swedish Krona, Norwegian Krona, Danish Krona and Euro as well as the related Alias service for commercial payments.
• Director Product Management delivers profitable scalable and repeatable product implementation strategies that exceed the market's expectations; that our Sales team can therefore sell and that our delivery and development teams can successfully deliver.
• The Director, Product Management is accountable for ensuring that all business targets are met and that the Business Unit's annual target contribution to the business is achieved through the successful implementation of our product and services.

All About You
• A leader with outstanding people management skills and the proven ability to build and inspire teams to achieve exceptional objectives.
• Sensitivity to a diverse range of cultural and regional idiosyncrasies to foster a positive spirit of collaboration between the region and global product
• Excellence in customer needs analysis and market focus, throughout the end to end product implementations life cycle ownership
• Being an expert in market matters such as target market characteristics, market trends, purchasing power of customers, competition, technological landscape
• Higher degree of commercial acumen and analytical rigour
• Technically pragmatic and flexible with Innovative approach
• Experience in managing development of products with and for tier 1 banks
• Genuine industry thought leaders with broader payments market background, capable of setting a vision
• A commercial focus that leads to corporate growth through proven experience of business case development, revenue generation and cost control

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we're all in this together.

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

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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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