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Title and Summary

SVP Core Payments, Canada

Role Purpose

Core Payments is the foundation of the company and is focused on the delivery of seamless and secure payments at scale, contributing to a significant portion of the Company’s revenues.

The Core Payments team is responsible for combining our payments products (digital first consumer value propositions, ESG and processing solutions, acceptance and digital assets) and platforms (switching, authentication, gateway, lifecycle management, digital payments and optimization) with our comprehensive Real Time Payments capabilities that drive consumer trust through secure convenient, accepted and consistent payment solutions. The team is also responsible for managing the switching of transactions through deeply embedded transaction flows delivering services that improve and increase payments. By reaching beyond Mastercard switched or branded transactions, we are relevant to payment transactions in other ways, vastly expanding our addressable market for products and services.

The Canada Core Payments SVP role drives the go to market strategy ensuring product readiness and scalability across Core Payments within Canada, balancing the need for global scale with local market needs.

They will lead a team focused on accelerating market expansion, product development, management and delivery, and driving revenue through strong commercialisation across customer segments and product lines in collaboration with local market, regional, and global teams.

Reports to the Canada President, with a dotted line to the North America Core Payments Lead and is a member of both the Canada Leadership Team and North America Core Payments Leadership teams.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Owns the P&L and financial outcomes for Core Payments in Canada and co-manages the economic and commercial levers with global/North America product management teams.

• Partners with the Canada President, Market Leaders, Sales Teams and customers to identify and size market opportunities; develops and integrates the global strategic priorities into Canada go-to-market strategy to deliver and optimize commercialisation efforts.

• Partners closely with Global Product, Canada and North America Product, Customer Solutions Centre, Sales and Marketing teams to enable the go to market strategies; owns and drives the commercialisation plans, including pricing structures, and customization of global products to reflect local market needs.

• Drives the Core Payments strategy, defining and owning the product roadmaps and growth plans to deliver scale within Canada in partnership with market and key cross-functional partners in North America/Global.

• Contributes to the global Core Payment strategy and the Canada/North America strategies, leveraging insights from Canada customers and consideration of market drivers to enable product enhancements and customization, as well as driving a culture of innovation.

• Represents the Canada Core Payments function within Mastercard and to external markets (conferences, customer events, etc)

• Stays abreast of market, competitive, regulatory and industry issues to assess and address opportunities related to the competition, go-to-market approach, and time to market.

• Leads and develops a high-performing team responsible for influencing a diverse range of customers and key internal stakeholders to drive the product strategies and roadmaps, increasing revenue, share and volume.

• Develops strong internal executive level partnerships to ensure cross-functional alignment and maximum support.

• Partner with peers across the Canada Leadership Team, such as Legal, Finance, Government Affairs, Sales, etc.

• Engage in long term strategic planning for the Canada market as a member of the Canada Leadership team.

• Provide day to day leadership presence in the Toronto office, including executive sponsorship of Business Resource Groups, leadership panels, coaching, mentoring and other activities that foster a strong Team Canada culture.

Key Skills/Experiences

• Expertise in managing multiple products and services within Financial Institutions, Telcos, payment services providers or card schemes, with extensive product experience in all things Digital.

• Expertise in creating and driving go-to-market product strategies that enable significant revenue generation across multiple products/segments and a diverse customer base.

• Will have managed significant product and/or market P&L’s, strategies, plans and KPI’s which reflect revenue growth, acceptance, profitability, and market share increases.

• Expertise in building and managing strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders internally and externally to include Financial Institutions, Fin-Techs, merchants, governments, regulators, and internal partners. Strong influencing capabilities are essential.

• Ability to deliver significant value to customers through cross functional teams by solving complex problems, creating solutions and innovative products. Strategic leader with who builds, develops, and empowers teams and knows how to deploy and optimize organization resources in effective ways. Has led multi-function teams in matrixed organizations, and driven success through collaboration and strong influencing skills.

• In-depth understanding of the external landscape, and able to assess and understand the competition, the political and social environment, regulatory challenges, market dynamics and the impact for our business.

Mastercard Leader Profile

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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.