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

Director, Enterprise Strategy México

Job Description Summary:

Overview:

• Contributes content and research insights to develop the Mexico strategy and advance solutions to ensure alignment with corporate strategy.
• Assists leadership in identifying key issues, defining problem structures, evaluation options and formulates underlying action plans to develop solutions.
• Leads projects or work streams related to refine growth and targets; develops presentations, generates research insights, undertakes complex analysis and guides others to finalize solutions.

Overview:

• Contributes content and research insights to develop country strategy and advance solutions to ensure alignment with corporate strategy.
• Assists leadership in identifying key issues, defining problem structures, evaluation options and formulates underlying action plans to develop solutions.
• Leads projects or work streams related to refine growth and targets; develops presentations, generates research insights, undertakes complex analysis and guides others to finalize solutions.

Role

• Ensures corporate strategic initiatives and/or business plans.

• Establish goals and priorities in conjunction with leadership team, monitors executions and identifies risks and opportunities

• Collaborate to determine annual target and objectives with the different business areas.

• Evaluates complex strategic initiatives, facilitating, influencing and contributing to design.

• Assess the economic landscape of key markets in the Division, and articulate how it will influence Master Card’s business and key account objectives.

• Draws insights from a broad range of industries and/or markets and reflecting them into solutions and strategies.

• Provides strategic and analytical support for business planning initiatives through interaction with team leaders.

• Understand of key initiatives, their drivers, determine progress and any adjustment of strategy implementation.

• Leads complex cross-functional projects or teams across markets.

• Promote accountability from support areas on key projects/initiatives (Business Development, Finance, Marketing, Customer Delivery, Product, Services etc.)

• Lead the Division’s Quarterly Business Review (QBR) preparation and execution.

• Promote in depth understanding of account P&Ls, with the objective to prioritize efforts on financially accretive activities.

• Ensures strategic executions through governance models, business reviews and implementation plans.

• All About You

• Bachelor in Business Administration, or Economics; MBA a Plus.

• Strong leadership skills.

• Excellent analytical skills:

• Comfortable obtaining business insights from ambiguous and incomplete datasets o Proficient manipulating large datasets, and combining unrelated data sources.

  • Proficient in Excel; knowledge of Access and Visual Basic a plus.

• Extensive experience in a financial planning and/or strategy role.

• Strong sense of urgency, comfortable operating in a fast paced environment.

• Customer focused, team player, and problem solver.

• Ability to build and to maintain relationships at multiple levels of the organization.

• Fluent in Spanish and English.

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.