Manager, Network Services Job Listing at Mastercard in Milan, Lombardy (Job ID R-243019-Milano, Italy, 20121)

Description

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, Network Services About Mastercard and our purpose

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 work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Role:

Network Services is a key driver for scaling the Mastercard Services business, generating revenue and value through Mastercard's 1-to-many go-to-market ("GTM") channels. The focus is on introducing new Services offerings that enhance the Mastercard network ecosystem and meet clients' needs, creating value for the entire network while generating scalable revenues for Services.

As the Network Services Manager, you will represent the Network Services team in the Western Europe division. Your responsibilities will include managing various initiatives within the Network Services scope, such as Pricing and Market-Wide Initiatives in your respective markets.

Key accountabilities include:

• Translating and executing the regional Network Services strategy in your markets.
• Building strong relationships with key Mastercard stakeholders in the division, including the Divisional President, Country Managers, and Services Leadership, to drive revenue-producing relationships and ensure the appropriate positioning of Network Services.
• Identifying, building, and managing the new Market-Wide initiatives pipeline, advancing early-stage opportunities to approvals and signature, and maintaining engagement post-sales by developing strong relationships with the delivery and product management teams.
• Leading various pricing initiatives at the regional level on behalf of Europe Network Services team and actively taking role in socialization of new pricing initiatives with divisional stakeholders.
• Creating and expanding new revenue streams through a one-to-many approach.
• Communicating market and client needs that can be addressed via Network Services channels back into product development.
• Collaborating with various internal teams, including product teams, legal, finance, and controllership, to ensure the successful and compliant execution of new initiatives in a timely manner.

All About You

• Undergraduate or master's degree
• Experience in a consulting organization as a consultant
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges
• Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English both verbally and in writing
• Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with colleagues and clients
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required,
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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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