Manager, Localization & Transformation, Mastercard Strategic Growth

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 Manager, Localization & Transformation, Mastercard Strategic Growth About the Team The global payments landscape is undergoing rapid and structural change, driven by geopolitical fragmentation, regulatory activism, and the rise of sovereign digital infrastructure. Governments are playing an increasingly active role in shaping domestic payments ecosystems, redefining competitive dynamics and creating both risk and opportunity for global networks like Mastercard. The Localization & Transformation team exists in response to this environment. We drive Mastercard’s enterprise-wide commitment to showing up locally and winning domestically (“Domestic Relevance”), ensuring our strategies, solutions, and narratives are credible, competitive, and effective in local markets and with governments. Within this, the Signals & Localization Readiness team sits at the forefront of anticipating change. The team identifies emerging signals across payments, geopolitics, and technology, translates them into business implications, and enables Mastercard to proactively position for advantage.

This is a high-visibility Manager role at the intersection of analytics, market intelligence, and strategic storytelling. The role is fundamentally about making sense of a complex, fast-evolving external environment, and shaping how Mastercard understands and responds to it. You will own core strategic products that inform leadership thinking and decision-making. The role offers a unique opportunity to shape how Mastercard anticipates change, positions itself in markets, and communicates its point of view on the evolving future of payments. Success requires the ability to move fluidly between data, narrative, and judgment: spotting patterns early, structuring ambiguity, and articulating clear implications for the business. This role requires a high degree of ownership across both strategic thinking and execution: taking pride in producing high-quality outputs at every level of detail.

Own Strategic Intelligence Resources • Own and maintain the team's core intelligence resources, ensuring they remain accurate, current, and aligned to evolving market, policy, and industry developments. • Oversee the ongoing curation, quality assurance, and enhancement of key datasets that underpin the team's thought leadership, research, and strategic insights. • Identify emerging trends, gaps, and opportunities within these resources and translate findings into actionable intelligence for stakeholders. • Partner with colleagues across MA to leverage these resources in reports, publications, presentations, and strategic initiatives. Produce Thought Leadership & Written Insights • Support ongoing signals monitoring by tracking external developments across markets, policy, and competitors • Author high-quality newsletters and insight pieces on the future of payments, geopolitics, and localization trends • Translate complex concepts into clear, structured, and compelling narratives • Help shape Mastercard’s internal perspective on market, regulatory, and ecosystem shifts Own KPI Dashboards & Reporting • Design, build, and maintain dashboards tracking localization and business performance metrics • Generate insights, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and clarity for executive audiences Support Strategy & Execution • Contribute to strategy development, executive presentations, and playbooks • Partner