Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors Business

Our PurposeWe work 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.We cultivate aculture of inclusionfor all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences.We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.Title and SummarySenior Managing Consultant, Advisors Business DevelopmentSenior Managing Consultant, Advisors Business DevelopmentOverview:The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow.Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base.Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.- Do you enjoy client interaction?- Are you motivated by developing new insights into issues and developing recommendations that add real value to clients?- Can you develop strategies and programs for local, regional and global clients?- Do you revel in closing deals?- Do you want to play a key role in driving a world beyond cash?If so, this is the role for youMastercard Data & Services Business Development is primarily responsible for:- Working with Mastercard client account teams to effectively manage and help solve issues for client accounts- Providing clients with custom Consulting and Innovation Services, Digital Labs, Marketing Services, Targeting Analytics and Mastercard Worldwide solutions that drive sales for Data & Services and Mastercard- Managing internal and external relationships to help drive Data & Services and Mastercard's businesses**Responsibilities**:- Lead sales calls and new client development across all lines of Business for a large account or an assigned set of accounts- Deliver against sales targets for existing accounts and contribute to Mastercard deal bids- Capture senior and mid-level clients' implicit business needs in addition to articulated requests, and identify most critical aspects of the problem- Translate objectives into key hypotheses and structure work for large/complex projects or ill-defined problems- Leverage deep knowledge of all the Mastercard Data & Services capabilities and how they fit together to offer new innovative solutions- Contribute to formal and informal pitches, from "storyboarding" through face-to-face presentation- Create succinct, persuasive written materials tailored to the "level" of the audience- Contribute to project delivery, quickly identifying shortcomings in projects and taking remedial action- Manage complete capture of assignment knowledge and drive to ensure it is available firm-wide (knowledge management)- Contribute as a thought leader to the development of intellectual capital, point of views, articles, and blogs- Leads Data & Services participation in Mastercard account team meetings as well as client meetings- Leads data & Services participation in account planning sessionsAll About You- Undergraduate degree required- MBA or relevant post graduate degree recommended- Payments and specifically cards experience recommended**Experience**:- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage and sell to a large client or cluster of clients- Demonstrated ability to initiate and develop a sale- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, including ability to frame the customer's opportunity in financial terms- Ability to think from the perspective of the customer- Practical, yet creative and innovative- Track record of overachievement- High energy/passion/output- Positive attitude and team player- Knowledge of payment eco-system- Demonstrated ability to oversee large, complex project executionMastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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 sec