Manager, Consumer Products & Solutions – WA at Mastercard Foundation

Mastercard Foundation is a global foundation based across four hubs in Kigali, Rwanda, Nairobi, Kenya, Accra, Ghana and Toronto, Canada. Our programs promote financial inclusion and advance education and learning in Africa, primarily for young people, and in Canada for Indigenous youth. The Foundation was established in 2006 through the generosity of Mastercard when it became a public company. From inception, the Foundation was designed to be a separate entity and independent from Mastercard. Our policies, operations, and funding decisions are made by our President and Board of Directors.

The Foundation believes that youth employment is key to unlocking prosperity, both for youth and their societies. Enabling young women and men from disadvantaged communities to secure dignified and fulfilling work will ensure inclusive development and economic growth in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Manager, Consumer Products & Solutions

Job No: R-158906
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description
Products and Solutions:

• The Customer Solutions Center is a new structure which enables Mastercard to develop better solutions & bundles for prioritized customer segments in markets.
• It is the housing for all Mastercard capabilities in a geography, and it aims to drive Mastercard growth and revenue by creating and selling compelling data-driven, scalable needs-based solutions to new and existing customers by tapping into Mastercard’s extensive toolbox of products and services offerings.
• Products and Solutions roles will support the Customer Solution Center Lead & Solution Architects to bring together existing MA capabilities, products and solutions in a holistic, bundled way to customers.
• They also act as an expert for their products / solutions portfolio in their geography, to drive market enablement and support sales as well as acting as key interface with regional product teams to ensure an effective feedback loop.
• This role reports to the Customer Solution Center Lead + regional function team (e.g. regional Consumer Product lead).

Key Responsibilities
Act as an expert for their Geography / Solution Portfolio:

• Ensure consumer products strategy is implemented in close alignment to market objectives and deliver core product launches and success.
• The candidate will align the regional & global product development organization with the in-market account management, merchant management and operations teams to deliver on performance indicators.
• The candidate will be part of this environment and will demonstrate the initiative and ownership as an individual contributor, raise the bar and challenge the boundaries to make payments safer and more convenient for our market.
• Bring their deep knowledge of products, services or platform capabilities to a solution-selling environment
• Accountable for having a deep understanding of the assigned product, service or platform
• Provide visibility to the CSCL and SA on latest product developments within their purview and communicate accurate solution knowledge to tackle client opportunities
• Proactively monitor and engage with customers to ensure customer success and benefit from Mastercard’s products and solutions
• Support CSC value proposition development and sale:
• Provide the Solution Architects (SA) and the Customer Solution Center Lead (CSCL) with their solution expertise in crafting the value proposition
• Coordinate with the help of SA and CSCL, with other sales specialists in developing an end-to-end value proposition
• Provide their expertise and deep knowledge of product implementation and success with clients during solution selling process (upon the request of the CSCL or AM/BD)
• Drive localization, market enablement and support sales:
• Enabling new capabilities in the market and ensuring market readiness
• Supporting AM’s in their market to optimize what we have today e.g. providing expert advice/ guidance on product penetration for an existing relationship
• Work directly with client counterparts on non-complex, one solution focused opportunities when the AM needs their support

Knowledge and Best Practice Sharing:

• Share information on latest customer needs and opportunities as well as relevant market intelligence with the product management teams to drive smart solutioning internally within MA
• Share best practices and knowledge with other SSs to improve solutioning of their product, service, or platform within client contexts

Required Skills

• Deep technical expertise in assigned product, service or platform capability
• Ability to collaborate and work on internal squads created to develop end-to-end solutions for clients with multiple MA capabilities i.e. products, services or platforms
• Clear ability to problem solve and understand relationship with the client’s needs
• Ability to communicate with and build relationship with client counterparts when requested by account managers or business development managers
• Strong communication skills
• KPIs

Incentive Plan: AICP

• Revenues for supported geography
• Specific KPIs from supported product, solution or platform incl. customer success metrics
• Voice of customer survey results
• Market specific objectives

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.