Vice President, Enterprise Strategy

Overview

In this role, you will shape and communicate Mastercard’s corporate strategy, leading major strategic workstreams and advising senior leadership. You will partner with executives and Corporate Development to advance organic and inorganic growth, synthesizing insights into executive-ready recommendations. You drive strategic alignment across business units and mentor junior team members, contributing to Mastercard’s long-term direction and market positioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-priority strategic projects including framing issues, building workplans, and delivering insights and recommendations
• Create strategy presentations and memos for C-suite and Board, synthesizing issues and options
• Generate growth ideas grounded in market dynamics and competitive context
• Refine corporate strategy to reflect material trends impacting the company
• Assess organic and inorganic opportunities aligned with strategic priorities
• Partner with business leaders to design and advance their strategies while ensuring alignment with corporate strategy
• Coach and develop junior team members
• Maintain market landscape knowledge to support project work

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in strategy consulting or strategy roles within payments, financial services, or adjacent industries
• Strong understanding of Mastercard products, services, and key revenue drivers, plus the broader payment industry
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to lead complex, enterprise-level initiatives end-to-end in global, matrixed organizations
• Excellent presentation and writing skills with ability to develop executive-level outputs
• Ability to challenge established views and lead discussions & debates
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
• Executive presence with clear communication to senior management and business partners

• leadership
• collaboration
• influence
• strategic analysis
• financial modeling
• storytelling and slide deck creation

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