Specialist, Strategic Product Initiatives

Mastercard
Lisbon, London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunitySkills: ["Communication","Problem-solving","Strategic thinking","Storytelling"]

Specialist in Core Payments driving growth of digital payments in underpenetrated verticals. Leads acceptance-led strategies, partners with global and regional teams to scale solutions, improve adoption and customer outcomes, and translates market research into clear strategic plans.

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Specialist, Strategic Product Initiatives

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Job Summary

Specialist in Core Payments driving growth of digital payments in underpenetrated verticals. Leads acceptance-led strategies, partners with global and regional teams to scale solutions, improve adoption and customer outcomes, and translates market research into clear strategic plans.
Location: Lisbon, London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community

Key Responsibilities

  • •Strategy & Market Development: Identify and prioritise high-impact markets, use cases, and verticals to drive payment volume growth and translate research into actionable plans.
  • •Product & Solution Enablement: Support the design and evolution of payment solutions and embed acceptance capabilities into broader product strategies and go-to-market programmes.
  • •Ecosystem, Partnership & Cross-functional Collaboration: Develop channel partnership strategies and align with Acceptance, Product, Sales, Marketing and Regional Teams to ensure execution.
  • •Insights, Reporting & Thought Leadership: Lead research and insights to inform strategy and decision-making and synthesize inputs into executive-ready materials.
  • •Act as a connector between global strategy and market execution, ensuring consistency and scalability.

Key Requirements

  • •Consulting background.
  • •Strategic thinking and problem-solving – translates complex insights into clear, actionable strategies across multiple markets.
  • •Excellent communication and storytelling, with the ability to craft executive-ready narratives.
Experience:Payments
Skills:CommunicationProblem-solvingStrategic thinkingStorytelling
Languages:English

Company Brief

Mastercard
Mastercard is a global payments and technology company that processes transactions, provides fraud prevention and data services, and builds payment infrastructure for consumers, businesses, merchants and governments across 200+ countries.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Purchase, New York, United States
Founded: 1966
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