Senior Project Manager

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
Senior Project Manager
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our Global Business Solutions Center and support Global Brand Strategy & Innovation operations. This position requires a highly collaborative individual with strong process and project management skills with the ability to coordinate global relationships across multiple functional areas, third party providers and regional leaders.
Role• Support the Global Innovation & Insights team with intake, pipeline management, implementation, and reporting of critical innovation projects.• Lead the end-to-end coordination of key internal project members within the Marketing, Tech, and Product, among others.• Gather and consolidate project updates from workstream leads for weekly updates to Project sponsorships/leadership and steering committee members.• Act as a key liaison between Global Marketing, technical project managers, and 3rd party teams, flagging and escalating key risks and dependencies with projects as they progress.• Responsible for planning, developing, and executing schedules to ensure timely completion of project deadlines and milestones• Develop, run and distribute status and progress reports to update leadership and project team members• Regularly communicates to senior management regarding the status of specific project deliverables• Provide insights to enhance processes and tooling, support implementation best practices and process improvements derived from identifying areas of weakness and strategizing improvements• Perform analysis and assessment activities to provide stakeholders with timely updates.
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Strong & proven experience in large-scale, cross-functional initiatives• Familiarity with Agile methodology, design thinking, and software development lifecycle• Excellent written and verbal communication skills• High proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint & Word• Solid understanding and experience working on platforms like Monday.com, Adobe Workfront, Adobe Analytics, etc.• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and deliver actionable insights.• A self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently while collaborating across teams.• Understanding of GenAI, Agentic AI, and emerging technologies is a plus
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
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.