Senior Managing Consultant ? Strategy & Transformation ? Disbursements

Job Title:Senior Managing Consultant ? Strategy & Transformation ? Disbursements Overview: Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard?s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants. The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client?s overall strategy, performance, and operations.We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for data-driven consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team. Roles and Responsibilities ASenior Managing Consultant focused on leading client engagements that are focused around Disbursements / Payouts, which may be consulting in nature or data and analytics driven. Client Impact ? Lead a project Delivery team providing best in class insights and solutions to support clients in defining their strategies for building, deploying, growing and optimizing products driven by disbursements capabilities, leveraging digital payment rails ?Act as a resource to others in identifying creative and efficient solutions and guide the team to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value ? Direct the development of strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value ? Own senior client relationships from mid-level to C-suite to drive commercial success ? Proactively engage on the client agenda, internal culture, and relationship risks. ? Serve as a trusted client business advisor and generate enthusiasm for the Mastercard team and our recommendations Team Collaboration & Culture ?Guide team through complex problem solving to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value ? Motivate the project delivery team to produce superior quality deliverables, and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all levels ? Own relationship with internal Mastercard stakeholders including Product and Business Development to scope projects, create relevant solutions for clients, and build the firm's intellectual capital ? Mentor and coach junior teammates inside and outside of direct engagement teams ?Engender effective contribution to Mastercard?s Commercial and New Payment Flows knowledge management and best practices Qualifications ? Subject Matter Expertise: Strong prior experience with launching or scaling disbursement features or capabilities in North America (as a consultant or product manager), including managing key enabler partnerships, identifying client/prospect pipeline, sizing and estimating opportunities, assessing technical capabilities, understanding of key stakeholders required for execution (internal and vendor) ?Knowledge and understanding of domestic and cross border disbursement rails ? Problem Solving: Leads teams to identify the most critical aspects of a problem, and guides team to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value. Initiates changes to project direction where required, and able to decide and act without the total picture. ? Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills, and leads team to effective and efficient technical capability usage regardless of context.? Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions. ? Client Management: Inspire client confidence through timely and reliable execution, and develop stakeholder management plans to align priorities and address support and resistance. ? Communication and Presence: Leads composition of complete deliverables and other written communication, and demonstrates an ability to communicate verbally in a wide range of complex scenarios and up to senior management levels.? Commercial Orientation: Ability to identify strong opportunities to leverage Services capabilities, including identification of cross-sell opportunities beyond direct project work, and partner with broader Services teammates on contracting activities, leveraging knowledge of Services capabilities and how they fit together to create relevant solutions for clients. ? Leadership: Instill a sense of urgency, ownership, and empowerment and thoughtful risk taking into leaders at all levels. Structures work so it aligns with team members?goals and motivators. ? Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity. ? Undergraduate or master?s degree ? Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively ? both verbally and in writing ? in English ? Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs ? Candidate must be willing to travel Apply tot his job