Job ID: R-235769
Job Role
This is a PreSales Solutioning roles at its heart where you will work with new prospects and existing clients in providing the commercial and technical solution, to drive sale and launch of Mastercard’s Cross Border Payments asset to the large pan African Banks.
Own the Sales Solutioning cycle, end-to-end, when working with large / multi-market prospects, positioning Mastercard’s Cross-Border Payments assets, either as a standalone deal or as part of a clubbed multi-product engagement.
Partner with MA Account Management, and in-country Cross-Border Sales teams during the Sales and / or Implementation Cycle with a Customer and provide deep subject matter expertise required for the opportunity conversion.
You can either choose to be – Accountable for successful conversion of the opportunity cycle. In short, while you own the Commercial and Techno-Functional Solution, your counterpart teams in MA owns the Relationship and Revenue Realization cycle. OR,
Alternatively – be accountable to lead, with minimal supervision, the complete Sales and GTM efforts within assigned territories and Accounts, including relationship and full scale PnL responsibilities.
Internal concept selling within the company, at an Account / Country level, for appropriate customer engagement required to drive conversion. Responsible for driving market adoption of Mastercard’s cross-border solutions, in partnership with the Cluster teams.
Be able to independently and in teams communicate the needed product capabilities for the markets and clients, and work with various teams within the organization to get them to life.
Develops and maintains strong working relationships, working closely with cross-functional teams across the organization, to drive the Transfer Solutions agenda.
Corporate Security Responsibilities
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.
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
Have worked in Product Management roles in Cross Border Payments processing teams of large Transaction Banks working in / focused on Africa.
Alternate, have worked in Sales Solutioning role within Cross Border Payments industry OR Market Infrastructure providers, preferably in Africa.
Understand and know how NOSTRO pricing works, along with Africa specific challenges of Currency Control, Correspondent De-Risking etc.
Understand SWIFT, RTGS, ACH, and emerging Multi-lateral payment schemes and the constructs that exists in Africa. Knowledge of alternate technical architecture is a big plus.
Have firsthand experienced business and sales lifecycle of products and offerings along with prospecting, conversion funnel, launch, and PnL responsibilities.
Known face in the markets, with existing relationship and credibility to hold deep subject-matter conversations on the topics.
You enjoy learning new things and can pick up concepts quickly and connect the dots independently without the need of formal & extensive training.
Demonstrated success working with stakeholders across other business units, functions, and markets in support of cross-functional projects / programs.
Apply via :
careers.mastercard.com
