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Title and Summary

Manager, Account Management

The Digital Partnerships team works with digital players large and small to create innovative, differentiated products and solutions that shape the future of commerce. As our world becomes borderless and even more digitally connected, the team keep a pulse on the market to ensure Mastercard delivers relevant, impactful, and industry-leading capabilities. Through a consultative approach, we enable partners around the globe to build best-in-class solutions tapping Mastercard technology and deliver them at scale. Inspired by Mastercard’s longstanding focus on inclusive growth, we are passionate about working hand in hand with mission-aligned companies to solve real-world problems for people and businesses around the world.

The Manager role is responsible for cultivating strategic partnerships and managing our relationships with partners across global strategic digital partners. This person will work across global and local teams to leverage Mastercard’s technological capabilities to solve real world problems for our partners and their customers, create new product propositions, and ensure seamless, secure and inclusive payments.

Are you passionate about problem solving? Do you enjoy learning and thinking about the new and the different? Are you an impactful, collaborative team player that can lead and influence without authority? Are you a creative thinker looking to make a material impact on the business?

About the role:

In this high-profile, customer-facing position, you will:

• Manage day-today relationships our key global digital partners.

• Help execute Mastercard’s go-to-market strategy across a holistic suite of products and services.

• Co-innovate with partners to build new product propositions through close collaboration with Mastercard product development and innovation teams.

• Build and cultivate partnerships that advance Mastercard’s Environmental, Sustainability, and Inclusive Growth agenda.

• Drive Mastercard revenue growth and be comfortable developing business cases including ROI analyses as well as supporting responses to RFPs.

• Support negotiations with partners and with internal stakeholders and develop terms sheets and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Use analytical problem solving and data tools to advise customers regarding program development, optimization & growth, as well as market strategies.

• Support and lead project execution across multiple business functions including account management, and business development, marketing/communications and product management.

• Support and lead business conversations with key decision makers internally and externally.

• Contribute to the delivery of integrated solutions that address customer needs.

• Drive and support both account management and business development efforts, internal partners and key stakeholders.

• Support the development and review of sales presentations, proposals, and internal business case development.

• Work closely and develop relationships with internal stakeholders across the business unit. Liaise with different regions to drive alignment on global strategy and local/regional requirements.

All About You / Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to balance command of the details with ability to deliver clear, concise summary.

• A passion and comfort in meeting new people and building meaningful relationships with senior-level executives.

• Passion for B2B sales and working in a sales environment to drive results.

• Possess a blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence and able to dive deep on all areas of the business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems.

• Comfortable aptitude for onboarding complex business and technical knowledge to a level sufficient to engage in meaningful partner discussions and identify and drive solutions.

• Enjoy collaborating with a team while working independently towards a goal.

• Strong analytical skills: aptitude for working with financial information and operational data; experience with developing business cases & strategic analysis.

• Self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering multiple projects within a team environment. Ability to collaborate and build relationships with account team and across multiples functions.

• Some professional experience in financial services, cards, payments or another related field preferred.

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.