Senior Specialist, Product Strategy & Commercialization

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 Specialist, Product Strategy & Commercialization

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 Arcus Commercialization team in Mexico City is looking for a Sr. Specialist to support the commercialization and ongoing management of Arcus solutions. The role willl combine product go-to-market strategy, business analytics, cross-functional execution, and business operations. The ideal candidate is analytical, proactive, customer-oriented with strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Role

In this position, you will:
• Support and develop product value propositions, pricing and go-to-market strategies, leveraging customer, market, competitive and business insights.
• Partner with Business Development and Product teams to support commercializaton initiatives and engage with customers to understand their needs and translate them into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives across Product, Business Development, Finance, Operations, and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment, timely execution, and resolution of dependencies.
• Conduct business and quantitative analyses to support strategic and commercial decisions and develop recommendations and supporting materials.
• Proactively identify opportunities, risks, and business needs, taking ownership of workstreams and driving them to completion with appropiate autonomy and sense of urgency.
• Manage Arcus activities with the Mastercard Billing System, coordinating billing inputs and processes and supporting accurate and timely execution.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Have a degree in Industrial Engineering, Economics, Finance, or related with advanced english proficiency.
• Show experience with real time payments (SPEI), fintech, and/or financial services in product strategy, go-to-market strategy, commercialization, business strategy or related areas.
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including advanced proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint and other office tools as well as the ability to develop clear analyses and presentations.
• Have a strong written and verbal communication with stakeholders, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions.
• Demonstrate strong ownership, autonomy, proactivity, and sense of urgency, prioritizing workload with limited supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and build relationships across different areas of the organization.
• Strong commercial and customer orientation, with the ability to understand customer needs and connect them to product and business opportunities.
• Adaptability and learning agility, with the ability to quickly understand new products, systems, processes, and business environments.

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.