Director, Strategy Pricing & Interchange

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, Strategy Pricing & Interchange Overview: The Global Network Economics & Value Optimization (NEVO) team: · Partners across regions and global business units to execute changes in economics aligned to product- and market-led strategy under a consistent strategic framework. · Leads the execution of initiatives whose complexity and scope require a global view and coordination. · Advocates and drives revenue optimization, simplicity, enhanced customer and employee experience, and adherence to principles. · The team has a privileged position with visibility into impactful initiatives across the organization, providing members the ability to influence and enrich many commercial conversations, through innovative and strategic thinking.

Director, Global Pricing & Interchange Strategy will support MasterCard’s goal of profitable market share through several key initiatives. This position will play a key role in: developing & implementing pricing and interchange strategies, building new tools to inform how we set our pricing and interchange, and conducting analysis as needed on strategic questions & issues. In addition, the position serves as the main liaison to regional and services organizations. · Effectively manage and prioritize execution of portfolio of key transformational initiatives. · Successfully drive initiatives from ideation to creation, regional syndication, and execution. · Identify and develop creative solutions, with a strong analytical and fact-based foundation, and lead teams toward its implementation. · Develop and refine strategies that are consistent with our business objectives cross-regionally · Leverage and contribute to developing models and frameworks for assessing pricing and interchange through competitive benchmarking vs. traditional and emerging payments providers, comparison vs. alternatives (e.g., cash/check) and the value created and delivered to each part of the four-party system · Conduct strategic analysis as needed to help evaluate new ideas, benchmark across MasterCard’s products and services, and inform decisions on pricing and interchange levels · Contribute (with rest of team) to the development of global pricing & interchange strategies and roadmap · Partner and liaise with several stakeholders across the organization conducive to advance assigned projects. · Communicate effectively to peers and management progress against initiatives. All About You: · Experience applying financial and business management principles, theories, and concepts. · Experience with financial modeling (e.g., P&L projections, Cost-benefit, ROI, etc.) · Advanced PC skills including Microsoft Office Suite, data mining, python, Power BI, Tableau, Etc. · Strategic thinker with a strong orientation to detail and execution. · Strong interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to build alignment without direct authority. · Strong verbal and written communication skills, ensuring that key messages are articulated in a brief and clear manner. · Self-managed and self-driven. Able to anticipate needs and execute according to them. Ability to turn data into meaningful information and present it in a concise, professional manner for senior management review. · Ability to lead through influence and thrive despite challenges. · Ability to interact effectively across multiple functions, geographies, and levels within the company. · Excellent project management skills