Senior Creative Project Manger (Managing Consultant)

Mastercard Inc.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. is seeking a Senior Creative Project Manager (Managing Consultant) to lead project delivery for ACD's Global Facility India.

You will work with the Creative Director, GFI, champion creative quality, and drive efficiency at scale in a fast-paced environment. Role requires extensive stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration across regions, and a strong track record in marketing/creative project leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in marketing, project or creative account management.
• Strong business growth mindset with interest in creative/marketing.
• Proven project and stakeholder management experience.
• Experience with client management and collaborating with sales.
• Skilled at briefing creative teams and reporting into clients.
• Able to work under pressure in fast-paced environments.
• Bachelor degree; postgraduate qualifications desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage relations with ACD colleagues globally by responding to inquiries and maintaining regular communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work on creative projects including receiving briefs, monitoring timelines, and ensuring on-time deliverables.
• Collaborate with Marketing Services colleagues and other creative team members to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Demonstrate superior communication and interpersonal skills while handling multiple projects across time-zones.
• Exhibit excellent time-management in a fast-paced environment.
• Identify opportunities to grow and optimize ACD and the GFI, coordinating with the Creative Director, GFI.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Client management

Briefing creative teams

Time management

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Postgraduate qualifications

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 Senior Creative Project Manger (Managing Consultant)

Overview

The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, this team provides consulting, marketing, loyalty and analytics to financial institutions and merchants globally. Marketing Services is the organisation within Services that develops and executes the marketing programs that help our clients achieve their marketing goals. The Advisors Creative Desk (ACD) sits within Services and is responsible for ideating and creating engaging, forward-thinking, on-brand content solutions that connect our advertising partners, platforms, and our portfolio of brands. As Creative Project Manager leading project delivery for ACD's Global Facility India (GFI), you will play a key role in advancing ACD's global capabilities, consistency, and growth. You will work closely with the Creative Director, GFI to champion creative quality, foster innovation, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. With strong stakeholder management and people leadership skills, you will drive project delivery excellence and efficiency at scale.

Role

• Your primary responsibility is to effectively manage relations with ACD colleagues globally by responding to their inquiries, meeting specific requests, and maintaining regular communication throughout every project delivery lifecycle.
• You will primarily be working on creative projects involving receiving creative briefs, monitoring project timelines, and ensuring that all project deliverables reach the stakeholder on time.
• This is a highly collaborative role, as you will communicate not only with internal colleagues in ACD, but also Marketing Services colleagues and other members of our creative team to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• To excel in this role, you need to possess superior communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to tackle numerous creative projects simultaneously, and across time-zones.
• You are also expected to possess excellent time-management skills to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Understanding our clients’ business needs and identifying effective solutions and opportunities
• Identify opportunities to further grow and optimize ACD and the GFI, acting as a central coordination point for ACD's global delivery ecosystem, driving interoperability, consistency, and best-practice sharing across regions with the Creative Director, GFI.

All About You

• 10yrs+ professional experience as a marketing, project or creative account manager.
• A strong business growth mindset, with experience, or an interest, in creative or marketing
• Proven project and stakeholder management experience
• Experienced with client management and collaborating with sales
• Adept at briefing creative teams and reporting into clients
• Skilled at working under pressure
• Bachelor degree qualified, with post graduate qualifications desirable

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.