Manager, Strategy & Operations - Mastercard Economics Institute

About Mastercard Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building 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.

Mastercard

Powering economies and empowering people

global digital payments/commercetechnologyinnovative mobile payment solutionsand processing

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mastercard.com

10,001+ employees

IT Services and IT Consulting

Purchase, NY

Public Company

2.6M LinkedIn followers

• Develop executive presentations, briefings, decision materials, and strategic narratives for leadership and senior stakeholders
• Lead strategic planning, budgeting, portfolio management, operating model development, group-wide objectives setting, and roadmap creation
• Coordinate major annual milestones, including strategic reviews, offsites, and planning sessions
• Manage quarterly business reviews with regional Growth & Engagement teams to identify growth opportunities and priorities
• Support resource allocation decisions across headcount, subscription assets including dataset evaluation and acquistion, budget, and shared services
• Drive management of MEI’s forward-looking thought leadership calendar in partnership with Chiefs, Marketing, and Communications
• Oversee feedback mechanisms and continuous improvement initiatives
• Manage the Business Operations Analyst and support senior stakeholder engagement for the Global Head of Growth & Operations, including overseeing cadence and alignment with key stakeholders – finance, HR, Marketing, Comms, Product et al.
• Executive briefings, LT presentations, QBRs, offsite materials, decision memos, and stakeholder communications
• Strategic plans, multi-year roadmaps, investment cases, portfolio reviews, and initiative trackers
• Growth narratives, value propositions, impact summaries, and advocacy materials
• Business cases, opportunity assessments, capacity analyses, resource-allocation scenarios, and operating procedures
• New structures for improving MEI operating procedures
• 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.
• In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.THIS POSTING IS NOT FOR A CURRENT VACANCY, BUT MASTERCARD IS SEEKING RESUMES TO REVIEW IN THE FUTURE WHEN JOBS BECOME AVAILABLE.
• Pay Ranges
• Purchase, New York: $150,000 - $254,000 USD
• Boston, Massachusetts: $150,000 - $254,000 USD

• Extensive professional and/or academic experience in operations, strategy, consulting, finance, project management or similar
• Proven ability to drive results across complex, matrixed organizations
• Strong executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to tailor messages to diverse audiences
• Demonstrated success managing complex projects and priorities in evolving environments
• Highly accountable with strong stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable influencing without authority and navigating cross-functional teams
• Enthusiastic about building AI-enabled and AI-native ways of working
• Strong analytical, visualization, and presentation skills

• Medical insurance
• Prescription drug insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Paid parental leave
• Bereavement leave
• Paid sick time
• Vacation time
• Personal days
• Paid holidays
• 401k with company match
• Deferred compensation
• Fitness reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement