Pre-Engagement Director

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

Pre-Engagement Director

Overview
The Advisors Client Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, this team provides consulting, marketing, loyalty and analytics to financial institutions and merchants globally.

Specialized Product Delivery (SPD) is a department within Advisors Client Services organization and focuses on the building out of new in-house capabilities to service our clients.

The Pre-Engagement role within SPD is focused on in-housing services that are currently being outsourced to third party supplier and actively collaborate with SBLs and the CA&E Commercial Lead to define the client opportunities for new CA&E engagements

As the ACD Creative Pre-Engagement Director, you will be working closely with SBLs and CA&E Commercial Lead to define the client opportunities for new CA&E engagements, securing business growth. Support the sales process by providing subject-matter expertise.

Role:

• Full alignment and strong partnership with SBLs and CA&E to guarantee best results
• Review, analyze and present clear and strategic recommendations to deliver result-driven marketing solutions
• Constant tracking of business and market trends to be able to design and deliver the best solutions
• P&L management – tracking and acting over the business important KPIs, such as Revenue, Margin and Expenses
• Contribute to closing sales opportunities identified by the Business Development team
• Client facing whenever necessary
• Be ACD eyes and voice in the market, both for internal stakeholders and customers
• Extract from the markets the necessities and inspiration that will drive the Creative Desk delivery
• Influence all relevant stakeholders to get necessary support and partnerships to the business development

All About You:

• Experienced Marketeer (+10y) with digital Data Driven background
• Strong business acumen
• Strong people management & leadership skills
• Growth-hacking mindset with solution driven mindset
• Constantly applying initiative to improve
• Structured and organized, proven to work independently in a remote team
• Curious and Innovative behavior
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills with stakeholders of different seniorities
• Excellent oral and written presentation skills
• Fully proficient in English, any other language considered a plus

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.