Director, Direct to Corporate Business Development

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Overview

Driving growth in B2B payments with new customers is amongst our highest priorities and greatest opportunities. Deepening our participation in carded commercial flows and B2B accounts payables is essential to realizing our ambitions in capturing new B2B payments flows. While the opportunity is significant, these are new areas for us that will require new product offerings and go-to-market strategies, informed by the input and active participation of our corporate customers.

Mastercard is creating a new global business development team to drive our expansion into business-to-business payments in the Large Market corporate segment, solving for their payment needs across the procurement cycle. The focus of this team is building and expanding the two-sided network of Buyers & Suppliers to deliver accelerated GDV & Revenue growth in our Large & Multinational Corporate segments.

The Director, Business Development - Canada position is responsible to deliver GDV & Net Revenue KPIs against the customers and segments that are allocated to their portfolio.

Role

Working in direct collaboration with our Account Management and Market Development colleagues that manage/own customer relationships, the B2B Regional & Global product teams, Data & Services and other cross functional teams, the successful candidate will:

• Grow, maintain, convert, and track a healthy pipeline of Large Market/B2B opportunities across all issuers, including new players in this space. Meet and exceed KPIs on Pipeline Value, Conversion rate, time-to-revenue and Y1/Y2 revenue.
• Support issuers through the LM/B2B journey by clearly and simply articulate the value MC can bring both around Product, D&S and other Services capabilities (Cyber & Intelligence, New Payment Platforms, etc.).
• Bring to bear the entire Mastercard capability set, across all functions, to close out deals
• Where it is optimal, undertake Direct -to-Corporate (D2C) activities, working directly with Large Market/Multinational corporates that have significant procurement activity. Assist them in identifying pain points in their procure to pay processes, articulate solutions that leverage Mastercard platforms & products and have them make the brand decision in favor of Mastercard. Once that is done, take these prospective LM/MN corporate customers to Issuers/FI partners in a completely agnostic manner and help them make decisions around which partners to go with.
• Own deal implementation & go-live in partnership with B2B Program Managers where available or directly interface with Bank account managers to drive implementation of deals
• Develop and manage a Commercial BD events schedule

KPIs
• GDV
• Net Revenue
• Pipeline size & conversion of pipeline deals
• Deal activation rates
• Other strategic & tactical KPIs that may be added from time to time

All About You

• Outstanding knowledge of the Commercial Large Market segment and it's AP/Procure-to-Pay pain points
• Robust working knowledge of the Commercial Card / Transaction Banking industry with a demonstrated experience in sales/product/corporate customer management in these businesses.
• Self-motivated with a demonstrated track record of success.
• Ability to build relationships & interact with corporate decision makers and C-level executives.
• Successful salesperson with ability to generate and follow up on leads independently.
• Outstanding communication skills and active participation to contribute to team settings
• Proactivity, curiosity to learn and eagerness to innovate.
• Demonstrated success in commercial management/relationship roles with a strong track record of success.
• Superior interpersonal and communications skills and an ability to bring together internal and external stakeholders to create solutions for customers and have them implemented.
• Experience in identifying strategic opportunities and of managing multiple stakeholder projects.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges
Purchase, New York: $164,000 - $263,000 USD