Latest Job Openings at MasterCard

Mastercard - We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives.  We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Manager, Product Management, Cyber Products

Job ID: R-129152
Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Overview
Mastercard Cyber and Intelligence (C&I) develops and delivers world-class risk, security products, and services for Mastercard customers across the globe. As part of this organization, Cyber Products Team is responsible for:

• Marketing and distribution of cyber security products and interacting with key customers and stakeholders (issuers, acquirers, processors, government entities, etc.
• Ongoing management and enhancements of key products, analysis and evaluation of performance and insight generation,

Responsibilities

• Develops regional go-to-market strategies and leads execution to ensure maximum penetration of product and value delivered to customers. This includes aligning with global teams and supporting the sales team with go-to-market plans, material, pricing and training
• Manage and maintain existing product lines on an on-going basis
• Analyze market trends, dynamics, and competition in order to inform product and go-to-market strategies
• Interface with market teams, sales, finance, legal, marketing, operations, implementations as the product owner to ensure successful launch of products
• Engage in idea generation, concept validation, business case development, and in some instances financial modeling and planning
• Monitor and evaluate product performance; ability to locate and use relevant data to support performance measurement, tracking, and product insights. Build reporting templates and tools
• Become the subject matter expert in Cyber Security (especially in Cyber Risk Management and Cyber Security Standards compliance) to guide customers and internal stakeholders
• Build overall understanding of Cyber & Intelligence Solutions offerings and broader Mastercard products and services to leverage synergies within the organization to maximize value delivered to customers

All About You

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, data analytics, mathematics, or equivalent experience
• 5 - 8 years prior related work experience. Experience from a cybersecurity consulting firm desirable
• Knowledge of cybersecurity risk management, general cybersecurity concepts knowledge is required.
• Self-motivated, problem solver who is result driven and has a proven track record of delivering success while operating within a team environment
• Excellent analytical skills with an ability to conduct structured analysis and synthesize large amounts of data.
• Ability to effectively manage cross-functional partners while performing multiple functions
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to multi-task
• Detail-oriented with an ability to understand and manage operational processes
• Strong interpersonal skills to influence and build credibility, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills.

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply
 

Job Position: Senior Managing Consultant (West Africa)

Ref No: R-128720
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Our Purpose

• 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.
• Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. 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.

Overview

• MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard Worldwide, provides payments-focused consulting, marketing, information and risk management services to financial institutions and merchants worldwide.
• With its unique category expertise, deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the payments lifecycle, MasterCard Advisors addresses the challenges and opportunities of its clients, enhances MasterCard's strategic and tactical performance and establishes MasterCard's global thought-leadership pre-eminence

Role

• Drive business development efforts for MasterCard Advisors Business (Consulting Services, Managed Services and Information Services) for clients across Anglophone and Francophone West Africa
• Deliver against sales targets for existing accounts and/or contribute to MasterCard Worldwide deal bids
• Capture senior and mid-level clients’ implicit business needs in addition to articulated requests, and identify most critical aspects of the problem
• Translate objectives into key hypotheses and structure work for large/complex projects or ill-defined problems
• Contribute to formal and informal pitches, from “storyboarding” through face-to-face presentation
• Create succinct, persuasive written materials tailored to the “level” of the audience
• Provide input into project delivery, quickly identifying shortcomings in projects and take remedial action
• Manage complete capture of assignment knowledge and drive to ensure it is available firm-wide (knowledge management)
• Drive thought leadership to the development of intellectual capital, point of views, articles, and blogs
• Leverage deep knowledge of all the MasterCard Advisors capabilities and how they fit together to offer new innovative solutions

All About You
Education:

• Undergraduate degree required
• MBA or relevant post-graduate degree is an advantage

Experience and Skills:

• Experience in top management consulting firms or experience as an ‘internal consultant’/change leader in a relevant industry
• Knowledge of payments market, trends and opportunities
• Demonstrates the ability to initiate, develop, and close a sale
• Strong presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both English & French
• Excellent analytical skills, including ability to frame the customer’s opportunity in financial terms (i.e. value quantification)
• Ability to think from the perspective of the customer
• Ability to gain consensus with others and coordinate team of consultants and subject matter experts around goal
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience of working extensively in Francophone Africa is an advantage

Interested and qualified candidates should:Click here to apply

Note

• Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.
• Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact: reasonable.accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting.  Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.