Partnerships Director, Media & Advertising Partnerships APAC

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 Partnerships Director, Media & Advertising Partnerships APAC Who 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.

We are looking for a strong business developer and strategic thinker to lead Mastercard Services expansion through partnership in the Media and Advertising industry in Asia Pacific. Mastercard's solutions in this space are driven by its powerful aggregated and anonymised global spending data insights. These drive the marketing flywheel from strategic planning to audience targeting and media measurement. We have built strong partnerships with agencies, publishers, adtech ,and martech players in the region and looking to grow both in depth and geographic spread of these partnerships. This role will shape our strategy to maximise revenue through these channels in the short and long term. The ideal candidate is someone who understands players in these markets very well and has a successful track record of establishing commercially-successful partnerships in this space. You should understand how data flows in this industry and have strong knowledge of best practices on privacy centric data approaches. This role also involves building a strategy to identify areas of focus, influencing product development and cross-solution collaboration, and competitive positioning. This role is a quota-carrying, revenue-producing role. The role is responsible for executing our strategy with regional nuances for the entire partner lifecycle; new partner recruitment, partner onboarding, partner revenue activation, and partner growth. Role/Responsibilities: Partner Activation and Management - Meet assigned revenue targets through co-sell with partners - Drive regional onboarding and activating new partners; focus on ensuring the partners’ team members are enabled, equipped and motivated to sell, market, deploy and support the Mastercard offering within established timeframes - Build and own relationships with local partner side Partner Managers, Account Managers, Marketing, and solutioning teams - Engage Mastercard resources and stakeholders in support of partnership objectives and sales opportunities (e.g. direct sales, Product Liaisons, marketing, etc) - Manage channel pipeline and forecast reporting and track progress through the sales cycle - Manage both direct reports (1 now, 1 more in plan) and in-market resources (JP, CN) to achieve regional objectives - Drive monthly partner alignment sessions to review partners’ pipelines, conduct win/loss analysis, and develop account penetration strategies to identify and build new sales opportunities - Work with high-performing and high-potential partners to develop an annual joint business and marketing plan that defines strategies and activities to meet revenue goals; review and assess plan progress in partner-facing quarterly