Jobs at Mastercard in United Kingdom

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

Manager, Sustainability Solutions-1

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, digital partners, businesses and other organizations worldwide by enabling electronic payments and making those payment transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.
Our company's aspiration is to power economies and empower people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers. Every day, our dedicated teams around the world are focused on addressing real needs and building toward this goal. They bring their creativity, their knowledge and their unique perspectives to drive innovation and our business in meaningful ways.
Our network, services and partnerships drive our commitment of doing well by doing good. We know that we can only prosper when the world prospers. That comes when growth is sustainable and inclusive and when prosperity is shared.

Overview
Increasingly, companies and consumers are taking action against the impacts of climate change. At Mastercard, we have an opportunity to leverage our technology to make it simple and convenient for them to do so.
Through existing and emerging products, we can inform consumers about the carbon footprint of their purchases to make mindful spending choices. The Carbon Calculator (CC), powered by Doconomy's Aland Index, offers consumers such a way to approach environmentally friendly spending by supplying them with actionable climate information and support. Our capabilities also support the successful progress of our flagship forest reforestation program - the Priceless Planet Coalition (PPC) - towards its 100M tree goal.
We continue to enhance and scale our Sustainability Solutions assets, identifying and developing differentiating features to maintain our competitive advantage.

Role
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting product development and management, analysis and reporting, and sharing best practices for Sustainability Solutions products, globally. In addition, the individual will play a critical role in future proofing our Sustainability Solutions strategy, including enhancements to the value proposition, driving scale, and supporting our customers in enabling a better consumer experience.
Responsibilities will include:
• Contributing to the management and go-to-market execution of Sustainability Solutions products
• Creating sales materials and other tools for internal and external audiences, to support product scaling
• Supporting the development of innovative and differentiated products to meet current and emerging needs of Mastercard customers and consumers
• Creating and maintaining a library of best practices and case studies on Sustainability Solutions products, to be shared with Product Sales, Account Teams and Customers
• Monitoring the landscape of competitive products and industry trends via desktop research or primary research engagements, understanding their implications on Sustainability Solutions, and making necessary adjustments to our product suite.
• Supporting the deployment of product enhancements and new solutions to market including go-to-market activities and driving the product development roadmap.
• Effectively communicating product enhancements and new capabilities to internal stakeholders and external customers

All About You
The ideal candidate should be intellectually curious, energetic, and able to operate with urgency. In addition, the role requires an individual who can demonstrate a disciplined approach to prioritization. Candidate must have strong communication skills with an ability to secure buy-in from executive leadership and experience in driving execution and alignment with regional and cross-functional teams.

Key attributes should include:
• Product Management and/or Product Development experience in relevant or related field; Experience in building solutions for credit card issuers a plus
• Self-starter and motivated to work independently and as an effective team member
• Multi-disciplinary knowledge, i.e., product management, consulting, marketing, business development
• Strong research and analytical skills - ability to turn qualitative and quantitative data and information analysis into actionable 'insights' that can influence decision making
• Ability to support the development of business requirements, for communication to Engineering teams as part of roadmap planning and execution
• Understanding of technical concepts like APIs, databases, and payment processing
• Ability to comfortably lead strategic product conversations with senior internal stakeholders
• Excellent presentation (oral and written) skills, tailored to the needs of different audiences at varying levels
• Experience leading projects through all phases of the project / product development lifecycle
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and projects in parallel, from initiation to completion
• Excellent interpersonal skills, negotiation, conflict resolution and project management skills
• Understanding of competitive offerings and industry trends
• Intermediate technical/operations experience within financial payments industry
• Strong analytical and organizational skills - ability to identify process/efficiency enhancements and attention to detail

Required Skills:
• Bachelors degree required. MBA preferred.

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.