Vice President Enterprise Strategy

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

Vice President, Enterprise Strategy

Major Accountabilities

Lead accountability for Strategy Planning across MEA - driving and coordinating the creation of strategic plans and overseeing their execution, setting the policies and framework for managing strategic planning processes.

Organizational Structure

Reports to the Head of Market Development, who reports to the Regional President.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead responsibility for coordinating the development of strategic plans and driving the implementation of these, across MEA (i.e. at divisional, area and country levels) by tracking progress against agreed targets and initiatives.
• Drive inputs and relevance to feed into corporate strategic framework design, and drive this down within MEA markets.
• Coordinate the development, alignment and approval of market strategy plans with various stakeholders (Divisional President, Area Heads, other Head of Functions, Finance, etc) with particular focus to drive longer term diversification initiatives to grow, build and diversify revenue streams. Focus on drawing out from areas and countries their strategic market landscape, opportunity analysis and opportunity sizing to drive diversification and growth initiatives.
• Oversees pipeline developments and coordinates business strategies to achieve an integrated business approach and achieve synergies across MEA. The jobholder should also be able to proactively contribute to the identification and pursuit of strategic development opportunities across MEA.
• Oversees market strategy plans across the division, areas and countries to ensure divisional priorities are embedded into strategy documents and ensure cross market synergies can be leveraged upon within the division. Engage in discussions with the Divisional President, Area Heads and other Head of Functions to re-shape strategy where cross-purposes are identified when reviewing plans across the division.
• Ensure on behalf of the division that respective areas and countries follow through on their execution of strategic plans and are not be diverted into delivering solely based on short-term wins.
• Support the Divisional President, Area Heads and other Heads of Function as required Headed in developing business deals with specific customers in support of divisional plans.
  
  
  

Act as the lead liaison officer and coordinator between MEA and APMEA, and broader MasterCard geographies in relation to all Strategy matters.

Key Skills & Experience

• A deep understanding of strategic planning and go-to-market processes.
• Understanding of customer and constituent needs, marketplace dynamics, industry trends and the competitive landscape.
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of a customer and segment led strategy, as well as economic modeling. Understanding the regulatory landscape across the region a critical component for all strategic initiatives.
• Experience of managing multiple stakeholders in a multicultural environment, across multiple geographic locations. Strong negotiating and influencing skills, with the ability to manage delivery through others who do not report directly.
• Strong and proven experience in the business, with sound financial skills and high levels of commercial awareness. Also, the ability to clearly communicate strategies and complex financial information in an easy to understand manner.
• Strategic planning skills, with the ability to develop sound business cases and meaningful financial analytics.
• Experience of preparing and managing budgets across geographies and markets.
• A proven leader who is results driven and who takes a disciplined approach to achieve results.
• Ability to work collaboratively and both independently and in a team environment.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills, extensive experience in communicating in international environment at senior management level
• 10+ years of progressive business experience and demonstrated results in strategic, financial and/or commercially focused roles.
  
  
  

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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