Specialist, Product Management in Greater London

Job description

Our Purpose

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

Title and Summary

Specialist, Product Management

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The European Optimisation team is looking for a highly motivated, self-starting Specialist to support our issuing customers engagements to unlock the latent revenue that exists within their existing consumer card programmes. To be successful you will need to establish and maintain internal contacts across our customer facing teams to identify and project manage the implementation of successful strategies, utilising internal tools to produce relevant evidence and content. The ideal candidate is passionate about performance management, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses a collegiate mindset to be able to work closely with others. This role offers exposure to senior stakeholders, opportunities to lead strategic initiatives, and a platform to develop thought leadership in the consumer card space.

Role
In this predominantly internal-facing position, you will:
• Partner with our internal stakeholders to identify and present optimisation opportunities, and track progress
• Provide strategic ideas/thinking to internal teams by synthesising insights and advising on performance related decision-making.
• Assist in the construct of evidence based areas of focus at customer specific level and build/deliver solutions.
• Establish and maintain relationships across both our regional and global teams and to be the focal point for all optimisation based questions and content requests
• Be comfortable working with Microsoft Office tools, such as Excel and PowerPoint, to create, manipulate and interpret data and present findings in a clear and unambiguous manner for the mutual benefit of internal teams and external customers
• Have a project management mindset for taking ideas from initiation, through customer engagement, into execution/delivery and the systemic measurement of any uplift in performance
• Take responsibility for being the subject matter expert and main contact point across the Europe region.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Have an inquisitive and curious mindset to question and challenge more senior individuals to ensure the best approach is being taken
• Be confident in speaking up in front of peers and seniors and adding a well thought-through opinion to back up any hypothesis or change in strategy
• Have experience of dealing with customers and consider their need for a simplistic way of being more successful and profitable
• Have a collegiate mindset to include those around you to supplement your skills and areas of responsibilities to be able to present the best customer facing solutions to meet their needs
• Be confident extracting, manipulating and dealing with data to be able to support a strategic story and hypothesis
• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly
• Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Always look for potential solutions to solve problems
• Have a strong aptitude when working with the full suite of Microsoft Office products and tools
• Be curious, open to fresh ideas and new approaches to accelerate success

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

Corporate Security Responsibility

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.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Greater London

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Published at

12-10-2025

Profession type

Management

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English