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About the Role
The Director – Strategy & Planning supports the President of UK&I and the Division Leadership Team by translating strategy into clear priorities, strengthening execution discipline, and enabling effective decision-making. This role acts as a trusted advisor, connector, and facilitator, ensuring senior leadership focuses on high-value opportunities, risks, and outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the President and Division Leadership Team to translate strategic priorities into clear plans, actions, and measurable outcomes.
- Drive high-priority strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects from conception to delivery, ensuring accountability, timely execution, and visible impact.
- Monitor relevant market developments, identifying emerging risks, opportunities, and implications for the division.
- Own and continuously improve the Division Leadership Team’s operating cadence, ensuring meetings are purposeful, action-oriented, and tied to business priorities.
- Lead the planning, design, and facilitation of Leadership Team meetings, annual planning processes, and strategy reviews.
- Track decisions, actions, and follow-through to strengthen execution discipline and leadership alignment.
- Own executive-level reporting, business updates, scorecards, and leadership communications for internal and external audiences.
- Prepare briefing materials, talking points, meeting objectives, and follow-up actions for executive client meetings, strategic customer engagements, industry events, and speaking opportunities.
- Develop leadership communication strategies that increase transparency, connectivity, and employee understanding of organizational priorities.
- Ensure the division has a clear data strategy that equips the Division Leadership Team and broader teams with the data, analytics, and insights needed to monitor market trends, understand customer performance, and inform strategic decision-making.
- Drive alignment on divisional data priorities, working across relevant teams to strengthen the quality, accessibility, and effective use of data and insights.
- Establish and oversee an effective market-level process for managing pricing proposals, working with Account Teams, Product Teams, and Customer Economics to ensure proposals are robust, coordinated, and progressed efficiently.
- Ensure the customer and Division P&L impacts of pricing proposals are clearly understood and that proposals are aligned with applicable regulatory requirements.
- Drive the UK&I commercial strategy, identifying and enabling opportunities to generate material, sustainable incremental revenue for the division.
- Provide people leadership for the Pricing & Commercial Strategy Manager and Data Strategy & Analytics Manager, setting clear direction, expectations, and priorities.
- Support team effectiveness and development by coaching individuals, strengthening capability, and creating clarity on ownership, deliverables, and ways of working.
- Ensure the work of your direct reports is well connected to divisional priorities, leadership decision-making, and the broader UK&I strategic agenda.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and proactive problem-solving across the division.
- Build strong relationships across senior stakeholders, business partners, and cross-functional teams to enable effective alignment and delivery.
- 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.
Requirements
- Translate strategy into clear priorities.
- Strengthen execution discipline.
- Enable effective decision-making.
- Act as a trusted advisor, connector, and facilitator.
- Ensure senior leadership time is focused on the highest-value opportunities, risks, and outcomes.
- Drive high-priority strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects.
- Monitor relevant market developments.
- Own and improve the Division Leadership Team’s operating cadence.
- Lead planning, design, and facilitation of Leadership Team meetings, annual planning processes, and strategy reviews.
- Track decisions, actions, and follow-through.
- Own executive-level reporting, business updates, scorecards, and leadership communications.
- Prepare briefing materials, talking points, meeting objectives, and follow-up actions.
- Develop leadership communication strategies.
- Ensure a clear data strategy for the division.
- Drive alignment on divisional data priorities.
- Establish and oversee an effective market-level process for managing pricing proposals.
- Ensure customer and Division P&L impacts of pricing proposals are understood.
- Ensure proposals align with applicable regulatory requirements.
- Drive the UK&I commercial strategy.
- Provide people leadership for direct reports.
- Support team effectiveness and development.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and proactive problem-solving.
- Build strong relationships across senior stakeholders, business partners, and cross-functional teams.
Skills
- Strategic Alignment
- Execution
- Project Management
- Market Analysis
- Leadership
- Meeting Facilitation
- Executive Reporting
- Communication Strategy
- Data Strategy
- Data Analysis
- Pricing Strategy
- Commercial Strategy
- People Management
- Team Development
- Collaboration
- Problem-Solving
- Stakeholder Management
Location
- UK&I
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
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.