OA- Mastercard Hiring for Director, Product Management at Dubai 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.

Title and Summary

Director, Product ManagementDirector, Product and Solutions – MENA
Overview
Develop and execute a market strategy for Local Platforms, Send Product and ACH Systems across EEMEA countries. This role will involve strategy creation, business development including new investments, strategic alliances, developing bespoke solutions to drive domestic relevance and managing & deploying existing partnerships and commercializing existing assets to establish MasterCard brand leadership in the payment space.
Role

• Develop and execute market strategy aligned with the global Mastercard Transfer Solutions strategy

• Proven track record of developing and managing local platform business and global product management in multiple countries

• Strong technical and business background

• Deep knowledge about multiple stakeholder management

• Experience for negotiate, execute and manage large customer commercial relationships and agreement processes with clients

• Interpersonal and negotiation skills – extensive experience in communicating in international environment at senior management level.

• Developing bespoke solutions to develop ecosystem infrastructure build

• Develop region specific Product/sales strategies to help drive sales of ACH, Send and Local Money Transfer Platforms and associated Value Added services

• Conduct opportunity assessments on new ideas and concepts and provide design specifications for product enhancements to Product Development

• Develop new partner/alliance relationships and maintain and strengthen existing partner/alliance relationships Managing Platforms team for day to day business

• Dealing with multiple stakeholders for technical and operational tasks

• Designing economics of the business for EEMEA countries
All About You

• Bachelor’s degree and equivalent work experience

• Expert relevant work experience with a core knowledge of data processing concepts and financial industry/banking operations practices

• Deep knowledge and understanding of payment solutions, with significant experience in product, sales and business development

• Action oriented and results driven and with a disciplined approach to deliver sales targets, financial analysis, and strategic development

• Strong relationship management skills – experience of managing multiple stakeholders in a multicultural environment. Strong negotiating and influencing skills, with the ability to execute through others who do not report directly to you.

• Committed to quality with a strong focus on customer needs

• Team management experience

• Strong people management and coaching skills

• Language: fluent English

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.