Director Strategy, Commercial and New Payment Flows (CNPF)

Mastercard; London; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A global payment technology firm in London seeks a Director of Strategy for Commercial and New Payment Flows. The role supports business strategy design and implementation for payments, requiring extensive strategy consulting experience and strong stakeholder management. Candidates must demonstrate analytical skills and an understanding of the payment industry's landscape. This is an opportunity to drive innovative solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to translate strategies into execution plans.
• Experience working in cross-functional environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support business leaders in designing and advancing strategies.
• Contribute to overall strategies through thought leadership.
• Build alignment with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Identify and prioritize cross-functional initiatives.

Skills

Extensive experience in strategy consulting

Strong understanding of payment industry

Excellent communication skills

Analytical and solutions-oriented

Job description

Overview

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 Strategy, Commercial and New Payment Flows (CNPF) – Director Strategy, Enterprise Strategy

Join our dynamic Strategy and Execution team. This strategy role is ideal for someone passionate about payments and innovation. Our team focuses on Commercial and New Payment flows – payments made and received by small business & large corporations, and money movement transactions (e.g., P2P) via our Mastercard Move capabilities.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Support business leaders within CNPF to design, evaluate and advance their strategies, with a strong focus on in-market delivery and implementation.
• Contribute to the CNPF’s overall strategy through thought leadership and creativity.
• Build strong, cross-functional alignment with key stakeholders across MA (e.g., Core Payments, Services, regional leadership and other function groups) to drive execution.
• Identify, structure, and prioritize cross-functional initiatives (e.g., secular shift opportunities, market-level execution plans, key product priorities) to generate actionable recommendations.
• Apply strategic and analytical rigor to product and regional strategies, acting as a thought partner.
• Maintain knowledge of the commercial and money movement landscape and market trends to develop innovative solutions and product strategies.
• Share learnings and insights with global product teams, regional product teams, and other key stakeholders, where relevant.
• Work with and lead cross-functional teams to drive outputs and deliverables.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in strategy consulting or developing go-to-market strategies for payments.
• Extensive experience translating strategies to execution plans, driving end-to-end execution – particularly in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong understanding of Mastercard's products, services, and key revenue drivers, as well as the larger payment industry.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to work with internal and external stakeholders.
• Analytical and solutions-oriented with the ability to drive thought leadership in commercial payments & money movement.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.