Job Openings at Mastercard

Role

• Working closely with Creative Desk Project Manager and the Production leads to ensure end-to-end development and delivery of campaigns for assigned customers. Main region: Middle East & Africa
• Maintain rigorous adherence of the Creative Desk in their use of resource management and project management platforms, such as monday.com , Salesforce and Aprimo
• Overall responsibility for the production of communications material on time and to budget by sound resource planning and management
• Co-ordinating the resourcing of project from initial stages through to delivery
• Ensuring the stages of the project are met according to client and creative brief, budget, resource and deadline deliverables
• Monitoring current traffic processes and inputting ideas on how to improve current practices where required
• Managing campaign resources and updating key stakeholders on requirements and supply
• Manage vendors and any required SOWs and PO requirements
• Support Regional Creative Desk lead on business reporting
• Building effective relationships with key departments across the D&S and Mastercard business, such as Sourcing, Finance, Legal, Compliance and the broader Advisors Client Services team

All About You

• Proven project and account management experience
• Experience with end to end high volume traffic projects
• Ability to collaborate with internal and external stackholders 
• Adept at briefing creative teams and reporting into clients
• Skilled at working under pressure
• Bachelor degree qualified, with post graduate qualifications in creative or digital marketing

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Role

• This Senior Counsel role requires strong commercial acumen and experience in supporting new product development in the financial services space. The role will support the development and distribution of Commercial Solutions offerings, including drafting and negotiating contracts, and legal risk management related to B2B and Travel payments automation and trade platforms.

The key responsibilities for the role include: 

• Partnering with product, sales, franchise, marketing, and other teams to develop and launch innovative products and solutions that differentiate Mastercard and meet our customers’ rapidly changing needs.
• Structuring and negotiating a wide range of contracts (including complex technology agreements, customer and vendor agreements) to drive issuer, merchant acceptance and consumer adoption of Commercial Solutions. 
• Collaborating with in-house and external specialists (including regulatory, compliance, data protection, and intellectual property counsel) to identify relevant issues and help the business effectively navigate legal risks.
• Providing support to the Commercial Solutions business development teams to support product sales initiatives.
• Advising business on a wide range of commercial and contractual matters including legal and business risk assessment and analysis on diverse matters from new product constructs to commercial agreements.
• Taking responsibility for special projects while continuing to handle a steady stream of day-to-day matters.
• Ensuring compliance with Mastercard’s policies and procedures and providing applicable training to the business.
• Managing external counsel within agreed policy and budget.

All About You

• Qualified lawyer with a solid academic and training background, licensed to practice in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Extensive legal experience, preferably including in-house work experience.
• Familiarity with laws and regulations in the commercial banking and payments space will be considered favorably.
• Ability to grasp complex new business concepts and develop and implement creative approaches to problems while identifying and balancing risks with results. 
• Strong business acumen, and a keen interest in technology. 
• Strong drafting and negotiating skills across a range of complex commercial contracts and the ability to analyze and identify core legal issues.
• Exposure to a broad range of transactional, commercial and technology law issues.
• Strong working knowledge of data privacy and intellectual property issues.
• Team player and great attitude. 
• Self-starter and ability to work independently.
• Experience working on global agreements, across multiple jurisdictions and time zones.
• Solutions-orientated and able to work flexibly, under pressure, and with tight deadlines.
• Lively interest in the business of Mastercard and an enjoyment of working in a fast-paced environment.