Director, Enterprise Strategy

Mastercard; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment solutions provider in the UK is seeking a Director of Enterprise Strategy to develop and strengthen its business strategy within a newly established function. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the UK payments industry, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders. This role is pivotal in overseeing business performance and aligning strategies with organizational goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in a complex, multiple stakeholder environment.
• Ability to communicate clearly to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Strategic thinking to develop and communicate direction.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and embed effective business planning aligned to strategic priorities.
• Deliver effective business performance metrics (KPIs).
• Align functional strategies with overall business strategy.
• Analyze key strategic issues for effective decision-making.

Skills

Experience in UK payments industry

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Commercial acumen

Job 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

Director, Enterprise Strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to join Vocalink Limited (VLL) into a role within a newly set up function accountable for the development of the Vocalink Limited Business Strategy.

Vocalink designs, builds and operates industry‑leading account‑based payment systems. Our technology powers the UK’s real‑time payments, settlement, and direct debit systems, enabling the payments of 90% of salaries, 70% of utility bills, most ATM transactions and every cheque cleared in the UK. The successful candidate will become part of a high‑functioning team, dedicated to delivering a robust, secure, and resilient service to 60+ million people every day with a transactional volume of £11 billion/year and a total annual transactional value of more than £6 trillion.

Working directly with Business Leaders, this role will operate across multiple functions in VLL developing and strengthening our strategic focus and delivery. This will cover developing consistent identification of strategic priorities, measurement of business performance, and overseeing the business planning activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with and through key executives to oversee and embed effective business planning, aligned to strategic priorities.
• Ownership and delivery, alongside the business change function, of effective business performance metrics (KPIs) across the business.
• Working with executives to align Vocalink functional strategies and plans with the overall business strategy.
• Identification and analysis of key strategic issues within the business, supporting rapid and effective decision-making and communication.

About You

• Experience from working within UK Payments industry.
• Relevant experience of working in a complex, multiple stakeholder environment.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to a broad range of senior and junior stakeholders, both verbally and in writing.
• Confident in engaging and directing multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of presenting and communicating to senior levels.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Focus on business excellence and being the best.
• Strong personal and professional ethics.
• Highly motivated and conscientious.
• Embodies and demonstrates all the brand values required by Vocalink and Mastercard.
• Strategic thinker – able to develop and communicate direction.
• Commercially adept.
• Successful candidates could come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including: Business leadership at a company involved in UK payments; Strategic consulting or internal strategy function.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.