Manager, Product Management, Core Payments Europe

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, Product Management, Core Payments Europe

Manager, Product Management, Core Payments - Digital Issuing Europe team

The Digital Issuing team focuses on driving overall volume and profitable revenue growth for Mastercard's portfolios through digital issuing solutions in Europe. This group actively collaborates with internal teams across Mastercard, and external parties including customers and partners, to build innovative products and solutions focused on capturing current and future card volume.

The candidate will have responsibility to support the product development and management for the Europe Region and will play a relevant role in setting the growth strategy and development for credit and flexibility solutions in line with Mastercard’s European and Global strategy.

Role:

• Support ideation, business plan development, research and validation of ideas and implementation of new programs and features that support the Mastercard agenda in the digital issuing space
• Support development and go-to-market for credit and flexibility solutions, closely collaborating with Global teams and CSC teams
• Responsible for evaluating and applying market research and directing opportunity assessments on new ideas and concepts, monitoring the landscape of competitive products and industry trends, and developing business plans for Digital products growth and new products
• Key contributor to the management and go-to-market of Credit products and Installment solutions
• Create sales materials for both Product and Sales teams to support digital solutions scaling
• Support the development of innovative and differentiated digital core products to meet current and emerging needs of Mastercard customers and consumers
• Create and maintain a library of best practices and case studies on product development to be shared with Product Sales, Account Teams and Customers

Requirements

• Strong business acumen with the ability to design digital solutions/value propositions that drive positive results for both customers and Mastercard
• Ability to effectively communicate digital solutions to internal and external stakeholders at different levels
• Coordinate project developments through regular interactions with both global and local counterparties
• Proof of experience and track record in payments and digital products
• Interest and passion for payments, banking, financial services, e-commerce and all things digital. Ideally picked up in previous relevant experiences or in a consulting environment
• Product / Marketing experience with a mix in B-2-B and B-2-C Direct Marketing
• Excellent command of the relevant business tools (Excel, Power point, internal reporting tools)
• Understanding of competitive offerings and industry trends
• Analytical skills regarding P&L development and ownership
• Leadership skills with the ability to recognize opportunities, form a vision, set direction, and gain commitment of others to achieve goals and overcome obstacles
• Ability to turn qualitative and quantitative data and information analysis into actionable 'insights'
• Team player and results oriented
• English language (plus another European language preferred)

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.