Director, Products and Solutions - Mastercard Payment Gateway

Mastercard Data & Services; Johannesburg; On-site; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in payment technology is seeking a Director of Products and Solutions. This role involves driving the commercialization of their Payment Gateway Services across Southern Africa, requiring a strong product management background, local market knowledge, and the ability to influence product strategies. The ideal candidate will be an expert in merchant payment solutions and omni-channel payment systems with extensive experience in launching products successfully.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in product management, especially in eCommerce.
• Excellent knowledge of payment acceptance solutions.
• Experience with Tier 1 merchants and acquiring banks.

Responsibilities

• Drive commercialization of the Product Gateway Services in Southern Africa.
• Develop go-to-market plans leveraging local market knowledge.
• Monitor product financial performance and key metrics.

Skills

Product management

Market strategy

Revenue generation

Business development

Omni-Channel payments

Job description

Director, Products and Solutions - Mastercard Payment GatewayOverview

Mastercard Payment Gateway Services provides an end to end Omni-Channel gateway solution for merchants, payment facilitators and acquiring banks.

This Product manager role will be responsible for developing, commercial roll-out and scaling Mastercard Payment Gateway Services capability within Southern Africa.

The successful candidate will be responsible for :

• Drive commercialization of the MPGS solution within Souther Africa markets
• Leverage knowledge of local market and regulation to develop go-to-market plans and identify new revenue or business development opportunities
• Be the subject matter expert / business owner and champion product enhancements by building compelling business cases and required product development features
• Uses market knowledge to influence product strategy, product roadmaps and priorities
• Building strong working relationships with partners and suppliers required to offer the MPGS proposition.
• Selects and monitors a product's key performance metrics
• Responsible for in-market product financial performance
• Works closely with Account Teams, Customer Delivery and Marketing to help define and drive execution of go-to-market strategies
• Supports business development through relevant customer meetings, RFP response support, translates deal-specific needs into product requirements (where applicable)

Experiences

• Strong product management background with a proven track record of defining product strategies, launching new products in the eCommerce domain gained through working with Tier 1 merchants, acquiring banks or Payment technology Providers.
• An excellent knowledge of merchant payment acceptances solutions and Omni-Channel payments across key merchant industries such as retail, transit and hospitality.
• A strong knowledge of merchant point of sale systems, payment terminal infrastructure and integration models required to build an end-to-end solution.
• Extensive experience working on product launches in multiple market
• Experience independently developing a

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.

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