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

Senior Specialist, Acceptance Solutions Product Manager / Senior Payments Product Specialist

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. Overview The Senior Specialist, Acceptance Solutions will be part of the European Core Product team which is responsible for advancing Mastercard acceptance solution efforts throughout the Europe region. The Senior Specialist, Acceptance Solutions, will play a critical role in the evolution of our acceptance product strategy as we evolve. They will be responsible for supporting the execution of acceptance solutions including scaling Tokenization, Click to Pay, analyzing underpenetrated verticals by driving our vision to commit to reaching 100% e-commerce tokenization by 2030 in Europe. The team supports merchants, PSPs, channel partners in the payment eco system through bringing state of art acceptance solutions. We are a highly cross-functional team that is focused on growing Mastercard’s footprint in the acceptance solutions space and providing our customers with best-in-class payment experience. The role will require strong coordination effort between regional & global product teams, sales organization, merchants, PSPs, channel partners to ensure execution of our strategy and drive revenue.

We are looking for a motivated self-starter with a strong sense of urgency who can think creatively, execute reliably, and work cross- functionally in a high performing team.

Role:
• Monitor key partner performances and address any underperforming issues in collaboration with Commercialization, global product and partner account team.
• Lead partner meeting preparations, slide deck creation including tailor made presentations
• Identify and drive the successful solution proposals and designs for acceptance solutions partners (merchants, PSPs, channel partners).
• Analyze to identify underpenetrated verticals to support GTM strategy
• Lead opportunity pipeline at product & partner level.
• Support GTM strategy workstreams including discovery and solution development workshops with the customers and design best in class consumer experiences in collaboration with Europe Product Management Team.
• Support interaction with regional and global acceptance product partnership teams to review and execute regional needs.
• Build detailed technical understanding of product features to identify and implement solutions in partnership with Europe Product Management team
• Work closely with the Product Commercialization team to support the creation of partner case studies, monitor performances, and quantify opportunities for partners in their respective areas.

All About You:
• A true team player who is open to learn, proactive and can work independently, operating through periods of ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator with strong analytical skills.
• Proven project management skills, with the ability to craft strategies, define workplans, and execute successfully while balancing many priorities.
• Strong ability to build effective cross-functional relationships and serve as an internal advocate for Europe acceptance solutions team.
• Can-do attitude and deep sense of intellectual curiosity.
• Demonstrated knowledge of payment eco system, acceptance solutions, card products, and/or the fintech landscape.
• Knowledge of (and passion for) acceptance solutions is a plus.
• Min 5 years of work experience in similar multinational environment is required.
• Excellent level English is a must, additional European language is plus.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

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.