Lead strategic sales engagements for Mastercard Services within regional banks, grow services revenue across existing accounts and prospects, craft and deliver persuasive pitches, manage complex projects to completion, collaborate cross-functionally to deploy integrated solutions, and contribute thought leadership to advance service offerings.
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
VP/Principal, Services Business Development-USFI, Regionals
Job Description Summary
Overview
Mastercard Services encompasses Mastercard's (NYSE: MA) offerings beyond the transaction. We provide customers across industries and geographies with a tailored portfolio of solutions to address their business pain points.
By harnessing the power of our real-time, anonymized and aggregated transaction data, powerful software platforms and wealth of expertise, we empower customers to unlock a holistic view of consumer behavior beyond their four walls, distill actionable insights and make more data-driven decisions. With compelling offerings for financial institutions, retailers, telecommunications organizations, travel companies and more, our services drive efficiency and value and enable our customers to solve business problems from end to end.
The Principal of Regionals, USFI, will lead sales to existing customers and prospects. The primary focus areas include; growth of Services with existing customers and prospects.
Role: • Lead strategic sales engagements with existing customers and prospects in the Regional Bank Segment.• Exceed sales targets by expanding Mastercard Services offerings within a robust portfolio of existing accounts.• Discover and articulate business needs, identifying key issues and opportunities to deliver tailored solutions.• Craft persuasive pitches and presentations, from initial concept to polished delivery for senior and mid-level audiences.• Guide complex projects to successful completion, identifying challenges and implementing agile solutions.• Develop intellectual capital through thought leadership, contributing to blogs, articles, and points of view.• Collaborate across teams to deliver innovative solutions that integrate Mastercard Services capabilities seamlessly.
All About You• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree preferred.• A strong background in payments, ideally with direct experience in Regional Banks or selling to them.• Proven ability to build trusted, long-term partnerships with clients.• Exceptional ability to frame opportunities from the customer's perspective.• Demonstrated success managing client clusters and driving growth using consultative sales approaches.• Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills, paired with a creative and results-oriented mindset.• Experience working in cross-functional teams and fostering innovation across diverse groups.
National Salary Range (Applies Regardless of Location): $221,000 - $349,000
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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:
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
VP/Principal, Services Business Development-USFI, Regionals
Job Description Summary
Overview
Mastercard Services encompasses Mastercard's (NYSE: MA) offerings beyond the transaction. We provide customers across industries and geographies with a tailored portfolio of solutions to address their business pain points.
By harnessing the power of our real-time, anonymized and aggregated transaction data, powerful software platforms and wealth of expertise, we empower customers to unlock a holistic view of consumer behavior beyond their four walls, distill actionable insights and make more data-driven decisions. With compelling offerings for financial institutions, retailers, telecommunications organizations, travel companies and more, our services drive efficiency and value and enable our customers to solve business problems from end to end.
The Principal of Regionals, USFI, will lead sales to existing customers and prospects. The primary focus areas include; growth of Services with existing customers and prospects.
Role: • Lead strategic sales engagements with existing customers and prospects in the Regional Bank Segment.• Exceed sales targets by expanding Mastercard Services offerings within a robust portfolio of existing accounts.• Discover and articulate business needs, identifying key issues and opportunities to deliver tailored solutions.• Craft persuasive pitches and presentations, from initial concept to polished delivery for senior and mid-level audiences.• Guide complex projects to successful completion, identifying challenges and implementing agile solutions.• Develop intellectual capital through thought leadership, contributing to blogs, articles, and points of view.• Collaborate across teams to deliver innovative solutions that integrate Mastercard Services capabilities seamlessly.
All About You• Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree preferred.• A strong background in payments, ideally with direct experience in Regional Banks or selling to them.• Proven ability to build trusted, long-term partnerships with clients.• Exceptional ability to frame opportunities from the customer's perspective.• Demonstrated success managing client clusters and driving growth using consultative sales approaches.• Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills, paired with a creative and results-oriented mindset.• Experience working in cross-functional teams and fostering innovation across diverse groups.
National Salary Range (Applies Regardless of Location): $221,000 - $349,000
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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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