Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Card Platform

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Title and Summary

Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Card Platform

The SVP, Global Commercial Card Platform lead will develop and optimize the core platform services that support the Commercial Cards offering globally, in close partnership with the Commercial Solutions Engineering team across the tech hubs. The SVP will design and execute global Commercial Card Platform strategy roadmap, in close coordination with the Global and Region Product teams, as well as the Global Digital Product team.
Commercial is one of the fastest growing segments at Mastercard with astounding opportunities for our company in this space. The individual will be responsible for the performance of the Commercial Card Platform services globally. This role sits at the core of our business value proposition, with responsibility for our data bases and storage, the processing of card payments and management of card controls. These are essential functions that drive the daily user experience of our 500,000+ corporate customers, and define our differentiation in the marketplace, both in terms of performance and offering.
The SVP of Global Commercial Card Platform is a significant leadership role within Mastercard’s Global Commercial Card team and will report to the EVP Global Head of Commercial Card. The leader in this role is a key stakeholder in developing, expanding, and executing the Commercial Card product offering for Mastercard, in close collaboration with key internal stakeholders, including the Commercial Solutions Engineering and Commercial Card Product teams across the globe. The key mandates of the position are (1) optimize the performance of our card management & control capabilities, (2) modernize our data base and storage infrastructure, (3) execute our commercial acceptance product roadmap, (4) deliver the franchise’s product commitments to several of our largest global issuers and (5) develop and execute our data-as-a-service strategy.
The position will:
• Grow the current team and expand to build out an efficient team structure focused to deliver the commercial card product roadmap
• Be the customer facing voice of resiliency, stability, and client commitments
• Be accountable for health and maintenance of platform – getting to well-managed from an operational AND financial perspective
• Partners with head of commercial card product on transformation agenda (location strategy, team performance, technical upskill, etc.)
• Create thought leadership content related to key mandates outlined above
• The individual must have a deep understanding of delivering successful solutions at scale, possess executive presence across influential stakeholders, and be a skilled leader to ensure the delivery of programs and services across cross functional teams. They must be deeply embedded in the product & engineering communities and can support products in various industry verticals and/or geography. Their understanding will be deeply embedded in the payments industry and an expert in B2B and travel card payments.
• They will have proven ability to build and leverage payments technology and innovation to drive results. They require demonstrated multi-disciplinary knowledge, i.e., product development, data strategies, modern technology infrastructure (including micro-services and cloud readiness), experience with tech stack transformation, familiarity with APIs, product operations & risk, management of large teams, close collaboration with engineering teams and leadership, etc.
• The role holder is deeply embedded in the tech community and can support products in various industry verticals. They will liaise across product and engineering functions to ensure our B2B and travel commercial card agenda is aligned and prioritized. They will define the performance and evolution of the Commercial Card Platform strategy closely with the global Commercial Product and Engineering leads. The role will make introductions, develop, and proactively maintain relationships with