About This Role
This Vice President role in Enterprise Strategy is central to Mastercard's most critical decisions, partnering with senior executives to shape the company's long-term direction. The position involves leading major workstreams on strategic issues, conducting ad hoc strategic reviews, and informing the inorganic growth agenda. It suits a candidate with strong strategic consulting experience and leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Play a central role in shaping, evaluating, and communicating Mastercard's corporate strategy
- Lead major workstreams on emerging strategic issues and business unit strategies
- Conduct ad hoc strategic reviews for the Executive Leadership Team
- Partner closely with senior executives and the Corporate Development team to inform and drive Mastercard's inorganic growth agenda
- Lead high-priority strategic projects: frame and structure issues, build workplans, conduct complex analysis, and crystallize insights and recommendations
- Develop strategy presentations and memos for C-suite executives and the Board of Directors, synthesizing key issues, evaluating options, and articulating clear, fact-based recommendations
- Generate new growth ideas grounded in market dynamics and competitive context
- Refine the corporate strategy periodically to reflect material trends impacting the company
- Assess organic and inorganic opportunities based on the company's strategic priorities
- Partner with business leaders to design and advance their strategies, balancing facilitation, influence, and content leadership, while ensuring alignment with corporate strategy
- Coach and develop junior team members
- Maintain business landscape knowledge, to provide solid foundational context for projects
Requirements
- Extensive experience in strategy consulting or strategy roles within payments, financial services, or adjacent industries
- Strong understanding of Mastercard's products, services, and key revenue drivers, as well as the broader payment industry
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, enterprise-level initiatives end-to-end, effectively driving forward project plans in global, matrixed organizations
- Excellent presentation and writing skills, with the ability to independently develop high-quality executive-level outputs
- Ability to challenge established views and assumptions at all levels and facilitate/lead discussions and debates
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility, team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
- Executive presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior management and business partners
