Associate Manager Product Management, Strategy & Growth

Mastercard Inc.; Portugal; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. in Portugal is seeking a Senior Specialist, Product Management, B&MI to lead the development of client-centric solutions, shape the product roadmap, and coordinate with Global Product Managers, sales, consulting, and regional teams across markets.

You will translate complex client needs into scalable offerings, influence roadmaps, drive go-to-market execution, and partner with stakeholders to deliver value across strategy, operations, and innovation.

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 Specialist, Product Management, B&MI

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, Product Management, B&MI

Overview

Business & Market Insights (B&MI) is Mastercard Services’ analytics and insights engine, translating complex data into clear, actionable decisions. By combining proprietary data assets, advanced analytics, and deep industry expertise, B&MI helps organizations improve performance today while unlocking new growth opportunities for tomorrow—across strategy, operations, and innovation.

The Senior Specialist, Product Management, B&MI plays a critical role in accelerating B&MI’s strategic growth by shaping, integrating, and scaling solutions that address both immediate and long term customer needs. This role will lead the development of compelling, client centric solutions and narratives and enable go to market execution across multiple sales channels, regions, and customer buying centers.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Solution Development

• Identify and define priority solutions aligned to client needs, market dynamics, and Mastercard’s strategic priorities.
• Design and develop best fit, cross B&MI solutions in close partnership with Global Product Managers, ensuring solutions are differentiated, scalable, and commercially viable across markets.
• Ensure solutions effectively balance near term client value with longer term strategic growth opportunities.

Cross Functional and Enterprise Collaboration

• Partner closely with key stakeholders across Mastercard Services and the broader Mastercard organization to enable cross Services and enterprise wide solutioning.
• Act as a connector across product, sales, consulting, and regional teams to ensure alignment from solution design through commercialization.
• Support integration of B&MI offerings into broader Mastercard propositions where relevant.

Product and Roadmap Partnership

• Monitor market feedback and client adoption to inform continuous solution refinement.
• Partner with Product leadership to inform prioritization of product and regional roadmap needs based on solution requirements, market demand, and GTM insights.
• Provide structured feedback loops from the field to help shape future product investments and enhancements.

All About You

• Strategic Solutioning: Ability to translate complex customer needs and Mastercard priorities into scalable, integrated solutions.
• Commercial & Go to Market Acumen: Strong understanding of enterprise buying centers and multi channel GTM models, with a focus on growth and adoption.
• Product Integration & Roadmap Influence: Proven experience partnering with product leaders to shape solution design and inform product and regional roadmap priorities.
• Cross Functional Leadership: Demonstrated success influencing and aligning diverse global teams across product, sales, consulting, and regions without direct authority.
• Client Centric Mindset: Deep focus on delivering client relevant, outcome driven solutions that balance immediate impact with long term value creation.
• Analytics & Insights Fluency: Strong familiarity with data driven decisioning, analytics led solutions, and insight based consulting offerings.
• Execution Excellence: Results driven mindset with experience moving from concept to commercialization and enabling sales teams to execute effectively.

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.