Director - Network Strategy and Execution

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 - Network Strategy and Execution
Role Overview
The Director, Network Strategy and Execution will support and co-own the strategic planning and execution of the Avanti migration initiative across key global markets. This role requires a deep understanding of market archetypes, switching capabilities, and platform infrastructure to drive successful transitions from Classic to Transaction Stream platform.
The Director will serve as a central point of coordination across regional, technical, and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring alignment on execution plans, success metrics, and resource deployment.
Key Responsibilities
Market Evaluation & Migration Planning
- Conduct detailed assessments of initial target markets to map current Classic platform features to the Transaction Switching (TS) platform.
- Develop customer migration plans and define success metrics and Go/No-Go decision criteria.
- Establish a standardized template for regional, technical, and cross-functional partner sign-off.
Competitive Gap Analysis
- Lead a formal study comparing current switching capabilities with competitive offerings and emerging market developments.
Platform Transition Strategy
- Evaluate the Classic platform setup and define migration strategies to Stream for:
As examples
- Brazil: Installments
- Indonesia: Local Infrastructure
- Australia: Domestic Routing and Least Cost Routing (LCR)
Platform Impact Assessment
- Assess implications of Avanti migration on standalone platforms such as MPGS,MNGS etc.
- Assess implications of Avanti migration on central platforms such as Tokenization, Data & Services platforms etc.
Market-Specific Expertise
- Provide in-depth leadership on strategic markets (examples)• Mexico / Japan Domestic switching • On Soil infrastructures like India, Indonesia etc.
Execution Ownership
- Directly own and drive execution for key markets including Kimberley, Sydney, Rafa and beyond.
Qualifications
- Proven leadership in network strategy, switching platforms, and global market execution.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Deep technical understanding of transaction switching and platform migration.
- Experience managing global teams and driving large-scale transformation initiatives.
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.