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
Counsel
This full-time role based in Istanbul, will support the sales opportunities in various existing, new and emerging technologies, relating to Mastercard Services (including consulting, loyalty, consulting and payment transaction security solutions. Reporting into the Senior Managing Counsel for Services legal term in EEMEA. You will take a major role in providing commercial sales support for the business. You will:
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• Work with business in bringing to market and/or scaling various products
• Provide support to the Services sales teams to support product sales initiatives.
• Provide legal advice to the business on a wide range of commercial and contractual matters.
• Create, draft and negotiate technology sales and reseller agreements
• Manage contractual negotiations with financial institutions, service providers, merchants and vendors.
• Work with internal and external regulatory counsel relating to the impact of local laws, government regulations and directives on Services products and solutions.
• Provide legal and business risk assessment and analysis on matters from new product constructs sales agreements and go to market strategies; specific to the EEMEA region;
• Take responsibility for special projects while continuing to handle a steady stream of day-to-day matters.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Manage external counsel within agreed policy and budget.
• Develop strong relationships with product development, business, sales, and senior management within the company.
• Provide applicable training to the LFI, sales and product teams.
All About You
• Qualified lawyer with a solid academic and training background.
• Extensive legal experience, preferably including in-house experience. Government contracting would be advantageous.
• Experience in technology agreements is a distinct advantage.
• Strong business acumen, and a keen interest in technology.
• Strong drafting and negotiating skills across a range of complex commercial contracts and the ability to analyze and identify core legal issues.
• Fast learner who can gain rapid familiarity with complex and evolving products and solutions.
• Exposure to a broad range of transactional, commercial and technology law issues.
• Strong working knowledge of data privacy and intellectual property issues.
• Team player and great attitude.
• Self-starter and ability to work independently.
• Experience working on global agreements, across multiple jurisdictions and time zones.
• Solutions-orientated and able to work flexibly, under pressure, and with tight deadlines.
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.