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About the Role
This Manager role sits at the intersection of analytics, market intelligence, and strategic storytelling. The role is fundamentally about making sense of a complex, fast-evolving external environment, and shaping how Mastercard understands and responds to it. You will own core strategic products that inform leadership thinking and decision-making, offering a unique opportunity to shape how Mastercard anticipates change, positions itself in markets, and communicates its point of view on the evolving future of payments.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the team's core intelligence resources, ensuring they remain accurate, current, and aligned to evolving market, policy, and industry developments.
- Oversee the ongoing curation, quality assurance, and enhancement of key datasets that underpin the team's thought leadership, research, and strategic insights.
- Identify emerging trends, gaps, and opportunities within these resources and translate findings into actionable intelligence for stakeholders.
- Partner with colleagues across MA to leverage these resources in reports, publications, presentations, and strategic initiatives.
- Support ongoing signals monitoring by tracking external developments across markets, policy, and competitors.
- Author high-quality newsletters and insight pieces on the future of payments, geopolitics, and localization trends.
- Translate complex concepts into clear, structured, and compelling narratives.
- Help shape Mastercard’s internal perspective on market, regulatory, and ecosystem shifts.
- Design, build, and maintain dashboards tracking localization and business performance metrics.
- Generate insights, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and clarity for executive audiences.
- Contribute to strategy development, executive presentations, and playbooks.
- Partner with cross-functional and regional teams to drive initiatives forward.
- Support team communications, knowledge management, and content platforms.
- Improve processes and ways of working with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Requirements
- Excel fluency required.
- Able to translate data into clear, insightful narratives.
- Familiarity with Mastercard internal platforms and databases an advantage.
- Proven ability to produce crisp, structured, high-quality written content (e.g., newsletters, reports, briefings).
- Strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.
- Intellectually curious with the ability to connect business, payments innovation, and global/regulatory dynamics.
- Self-starter who can build from scratch, iterate quickly, and “get hands dirty”.
- Strong execution mindset in ambiguous environments.
- Team-oriented with a strong sense of shared ownership; willing to lean in to ensure team success.
- High attention to detail and pride in producing accurate, polished work.
- Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Experience working across markets strongly preferred.
- English fluency required; additional languages a plus.
- 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.
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
Skills
- Analytics
- Market intelligence
- Strategic storytelling
- Data analysis
- Strategic thinking
- Execution
- Writing
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Organization
- Information security
Location
- 200+ countries and territories worldwide
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
About the Company
- 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.
- The global payments landscape is undergoing rapid and structural change, driven by geopolitical fragmentation, regulatory activism, and the rise of sovereign digital infrastructure.
- Governments are playing an increasingly active role in shaping domestic payments ecosystems, redefining competitive dynamics and creating both risk and opportunity for global networks like Mastercard.
- The Localization & Transformation team exists in response to this environment.
- We drive Mastercard’s enterprise-wide commitment to showing up locally and winning domestically (“Domestic Relevance”), ensuring our strategies, solutions, and narratives are credible, competitive, and effective in local markets and with governments.
- Within this, the Signals & Localization Readiness team sits at the forefront of anticipating change.
- The team identifies emerging signals across payments, geopolitics, and technology, translates them into business implications, and enables Mastercard to proactively position for advantage.