Senior Vice President, Government Affairs & Policy, Latin America and Caribbean

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We are a global technology company in the payments industry.
The Role
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 Vice President, Government Affairs & Policy, Latin America and Caribbean
Who is Mastercard?
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
The Senior Vice President, Public Policy for Latin America & Caribbean will lead Mastercard's public policy advocacy efforts and will be responsible for delivering the government relations and regulatory affairs disciplines, acting as point person for relationships with Mastercard's legislative and regulatory audiences and for building other third party allies.
The role will focus on developing how Mastercard's interests and reputation can be advanced through engagement with Government, consumer and business groups as well as other influencers in each priority market of the Latin America region.
The successful candidate will develop thought-leadership programs as well as having direct responsibility for issue management, advocacy, social responsibility and public policy.
Role • Lead the policy function in an effort to establish Mastercard as a recognized expert and resource in the payments industry, while delivering a measurable positive impact for Mastercard in achieving its overall corporate objectives and goals • Develop and implement creative strategies to effectively identify and influence the passage or defeat of legislation impacting the corporation, as well as the associated regulatory environment in addition to supporting and coordinating major corporate customer groups in these same areas • Drive the development of corporate positions on pending legislation and regulation and hold tactical responsibility for drafting relevant responses • Anticipate significant domestic and regional political trends while developing and modifying strategies to manage these trends • Establish and maintain key relationships with opinion formers and influencers across the government (legislative and executive), business, consumers and customer segments • Direct and coordinate all of the company's political activities across the region and
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.

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The Company
HQ: Purchase, NY
35,300 Employees
Year Founded: 1966

What We Do

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient 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.

Why Work With Us

We live the Mastercard Way: creating value in the communities we touch, growing together through the opportunities we see, and moving fast to innovate and scale. Our collaborative culture and our passionate people are the key to what we do, driving meaningful change as one team and connecting everyone to priceless possibilities.

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