Director, Small Business Payments, Southeast Asia

Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Director, Small Business Payments, Southeast Asia
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
Commercial Payments team drives opportunities within Southeast Asia to grow and defend our business in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our key activities include:

• Provide deep sales expertise to our partners and power their growth
• Identifying and developing new business
• Identify and drive strategic partnerships

The Director, Small Business Segment is part of the Commercial/B2B team which is responsible for advancing Mastercard’s small business efforts in Southeast Asia (SEA), and reports to Vice President, Commercial/B2B lead, SEA division.
The individual will be responsible for supporting small business prepaid, debit and credit cards performance, which includes driving strategy, product development, analysis and reporting, and sharing best practices.
This role will be a point of contact for Small Business product development and sales to internal partners and issuers, and the individual will be partnering with the Regional Product organization to deliver GDV, new customers, market share and revenue objectives for the market.
Role
Role
The key objectives of this role are to drive growth of the Small Business prepaid, debit and credit card portfolios, and achieve agreed targets in terms of new wins, spend volumes, revenue and market share through the following activities

• Develop strategy and recommend new, differentiated features and benefits to enhance sales and optimization strategy for existing and prospective Bank partners, 3rd party partners, Fintech partners and startup community in order to drive new business and incremental growth for Mastercard's Small Business portfolio
• Effectively communicate launch of new products, services & platforms and/or enhancements to internal stakeholders and external customers through bulletin announcements, briefing sessions, PR, customer pitches, etc.
• Monitor the landscape of competitive products and industry trends via desktop research or primary research engagements, understand their implications on the Mastercard Small Business cards portfolio, and make necessary adjustments
• Possess deep knowledge of payment market products and programs from both issuer and end-user client perspective.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across Account Teams, Marketing, Loyalty, Finance, Pricing and Interchange, Franchise, Legal and Customer Delivery, as well as 3rd party partners to support new launches and go-to-market initiatives
• Champion digital enablement (e.g. digital first, contactless, tokenization) within Small Business space and drive adoption with best-in-class customer experience
• Provide consultative sales enablement, especially during complex and cross-departmental discussions through the combination of functional skills and a thorough understanding of Mastercard's assets, positioning the organization as the best product partner for the customer.

All About You

• Track record of initiating new approaches to doing business and driving implementation to deliver tangible business results
• Strong in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Self-motivated and able to operate within a cross-functional team environment
• Strong research, analytical and technical skills
• Skilled at management reporting and gathering insights from granular data to influence decision making
• Relevant industry experience preferred, such as payments, cards, financial services, fintech, start-up world etc.
• 8-12 years of work experience with at least a Bachelor’s degree
• Strong product development & management skills, with demonstrated ability to deliver
• Strong team player with good communication and presentation skills

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

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and