Manager, Business Insights

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

Manager, Business Insights

Overview
The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.

The Business Insights team is focused on ensuring that all of Services can make data-driven decisions and operate effectively and efficiently. The Manager, Business Insights will respond positively to the following:

• Have you effectively partnered with leadership across Sales, Delivery, Product and other functions to enhance strategic decision making through facts and data?
• Are you passionate about diagnosing strategic gaps and opportunities within a function's operations -- and identifying how they can be corrected and addressed?
• Do you have a strong experience with building data-driven infrastructure, including system configuration, data storage and usage of BI platforms?
• Do you have experience in driving productivity enhancements through the identification, procurement and/or development of technology solutions to match business needs?

Role
• Influences the decision-making process to produce better outcomes in a dedicated Services function (Sales, Delivery, Product, Strategy, HR, etc.) -- providing a fact-base and thought-partnership to functional leaders
• Establishes the right measurement frameworks, KPIs and analysis questions to identify the health of the business for a dedicated function
• Ensures team members can maximize their time on intended work (i.e. Sales and Delivery with Clients; Product on Code Development), minimizing other efforts through automation, process simplification and hands-on partnership
• Leads the execution of special projects without a clear owner -- building cross-functional teams for topics like M&A integration, Agile Initiatives, etc.
• Drives the development of overall Data & Services analytic infrastructure, with a focus on ensuring all systems are configured optimally and data is centrally aggregated

All About You
• Excellent problem solving skills, with a strong emphasis on the development of frameworks and processes that are scalable and automated
• Strong business knowledge relevant to a given Services function -- and a passion for increasing knowledge
• Excellent command of relevant data sets (e.g. Financial, Sales & Marketing, Costs, etc.) and strong comfort with databases and data analytic tools (e.g. SQL, ETL Processes, Tableau, Salesforce, etc.)
• Strong technical orientation, with experience on both Product Management-style collaboration with internal developers and the configuration of third-party technical system
• Generalist mentality with a well-rounded skill set; Previous consulting experience a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communicator at all levels of the organization

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.