Vice President, Strategy and Operations in New York, NY

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. 

Job Title

Vice President, Strategy and OperationsVice President, Strategy and Operations
Mastercard is a global technology company. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making payment and data 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
The New Digital Infrastructure and Fintech (NDIF) team is responsible for developing and building the future of digital currency, 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 Vice President, Strategy and Operations will play a leading role in developing and communicating the vision and strategy across multiple defined product areas within NDIF, as well as driving operational excellence for the organization. The individual will serve as strategic consultant to a global team of payment innovators, providing thought partnership using research and data driven analysis to “connect the dots” across industry, technology, and consumer trends.

Responsibilities
• Directly partner with NDIF product teams to define and implement strategies that help capture growth and opportunity within a rapidly accelerating digital economy
• Report on market trends and evolutions and inform strategy with competitive intelligence
• Monitor performance against targets and evaluate potential challenges in order to implement action plans
• Structure, prioritize, and lead projects or major work streams in support of our most critical priorities and objectives
• Collaborate with cross-functional peers to increase operating efficiency across the organization and better serve an evolving set of customer needs
• Draft communication plans and narratives that demonstrate the interconnectivity between our product areas and how we are bringing together our assets to future proof our business and realize Mastercard's most critical objectives (i.e., multi-rail potential)
• Lead a team to support operations across the business, inclusive of budget management, quarterly business reviews, KPI tracking, Studio process, planning, and risk management
• Lead our competitive intelligence and benchmarking work
• Own responsibility for P&C initiatives, including the plan for team's development, acknowledgement, and morale
• Centralize prioritization across legal, licensing, and franchise
• Accountable for Chief of Staff to NDIF cofounders and oversight of acquisition COS.

All About You
• Bachelor's degree in business or equivalent degree. Advanced degree preferred.
• Significant expertise in payments required. Experience in emerging technologies highly valued
• Prior experience in a global Strategy & Operations or product development/management role
• Superior communication, presentation and interpersonal skills; ability to form compelling narratives and business cases
• High energy, self-starter, with ability to manage by influence
• Experience leading cross-functional [teams] and projects effectively, delivering results

COVID-19 Considerations

We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we're all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.

About Mastercard

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.

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