Specialist, Product Management

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
Specialist, Product Management
Overview:
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.
The Services Business represents over a third of Mastercard revenues and is a key differentiator for Mastercard. Services use our unique and proprietary data, technology, insights and expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers. Services is critical for the sustained, long-term growth of Mastercard.
Within the Services organization, this role sits within the Business & Markets Insights (BMI) organization. The Business & Market Insights vertical is focused on creating products and solutions that create value for customers through Analytics, Insights, Business Experimentation, and Payment Consulting & Innovation.
The BMI's global product team is seeking an accomplished Manager to lead the evolution of its Mastercard Portfolio Intelligence products.
Mastercard Portfolio Intelligence team is at the heart of a business intelligence eco-system built on a universe of Mastercard data and payment insights. It helps customers across the globe make smarter decisions, stay competitive, and embrace new trends. We are currently on a transformation journey to further evolve our platforms, this is a great opportunity to be part of a high-growth, diverse, agile and innovative team.
Bring your Passion and Expertise
We recruit for and value the following core competencies:
Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.
Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
Communication and Presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, positioning Mastercard's solutions as high value solutions in sales and delivery conversations.
Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.
Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.
Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
Qualifications:
Undergraduate or master's degree with experience in a consulting/analytics organization . Expertise on one or more of SQL, Python, Big data / Hadoop (Pyspark / ScalaSpark / SparkR), HQL, Hive, R .
Experience with one or more of Segmentation, Campaign insights, A/B testing, data-driven product development .
Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges .
Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or retail/eCommerce, BFSI merchants preferred .
Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and the local office language(s) .
Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with colleagues and clients . Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment .
Advanced Word, Excel, PowerPoint and data analytics skills. Advanced Strategy and Consulting skills. Expertise in building executive level documentations.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.
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.
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.