Senior Specialist, Product Management

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

Job Title: Senior Specialist (Commercialization), Global Product Management, Operational Insights Program

MasterCard Data & Services enables customers across industries and geographies to make smarter decisions and reach better outcomes with a tailored portfolio of solutions beyond the transaction.
• We harness the power of real-time, anonymized, aggregated transaction data; powerful software platforms; and a wealth of expertise
• We empower customers to make better data-driven decisions by unlocking a holistic view of consumer behavior beyond their four walls and distilling actionable insights from data
• We work with financial institutions, retailers, telecommunications organizations, travel companies, and more
We are looking for an experienced analyst within the Operational Insights Program Global Product Management team to play a key role in supporting commercialization/go-to-market strategy for its products. This person will support the product enablement team, bridging customer-specific initiatives with the larger business expansion. This person will drive key activities including conducting data analysis for go-to-market activities, e.g., price modeling, revenue analysis, KPI analysis and reporting etc.

Product Managers in Data & Services at Mastercard
• Build revolutionary products that advance how businesses all over the world derive the most value from their data assets
• Translate a deep understanding of our customers into products and solutions that drive significant customer value
• Balance the long-term direction of a product with today’s needs and constraints by fully understanding the technical, competitive, and commercial contexts of our products
• Act as connectors to ensure the commercial success of our products by working with Sales and Marketing while ensuring technical success through close partnership with Technology teams
• Drive globally relevant solutions by understanding regional needs and tradeoffs, and build scalable products that serve an array of customer segments
• Set product direction with coordination, not isolation—considering how our products all work together to serve customer needs

Role

• Support product enablement effort, maximizing customer retention and driving increased penetration
• Synthesize customer data and input to expand Operational Insights business
• Act as an expert, advocate, and champion for OI program products
• Coordinate across cross-functional teams for product sales, usage, and continuous product enhancement
• Lead critical analysis for product activities including customer segmentation, pricing, KPI reporting, and sales/marketing campaigns. Support other activities like market research and business case development
• Effectively communicate data insights and their relevance to the business context
• Build strong working relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders to achieve product goals

All About You

• Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant experience
• Highly experienced in conducting data analysis to support commercial activities of a product business
• Strong experience with analytical solutions designed for payments or a related financial services sectors preferred
• Well-versed in Excel, Python, Hadoop, Tableau, and related analytics tools and experience running analysis on large datasets
• Strategic mindset to solve complex and ambiguous problems
• Highly organized and able to deal with multiple and competing priorities; strong ability to decode customer/stakeholder requests
• Experience of developing and driving end to end execution of initiatives – particularly in a cross-functional environment, managing and prioritizing competing initiatives
• Strong communication & influencing skills to work with internal and external stakeholders, with ability to clearly articulate problem statements and opportunity areas

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic prote