Mastercard Hiring for Senior Specialist, Product Management at Pune, India Full Time

Our Purpose

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Title and Summary

Senior Specialist, Product Management

Overview

The Cross-Border Services Global Product team is looking for a Senior Analyst who will manage long-term and short-term strategic initiatives using innovative thinking and problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate is passionate about product management, communication, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Role

• Assist the Product Management team with key tasks including but not limited to preparing presentation, market research, participation in internal and external meetings and corresponding follow-up materials.

• Articulate and quantify market problems and defines opportunities leveraging our inherent capabilities and competence.

• Development, management, and dissemination of structured collateral materials communicating product capabilities.

• Collaborates frequently with internal stakeholders to align on key deliverables.

• Partner with Product Owners to quantify and elaborate business requirements and ensure what is delivered meets the Product needs and requirements.

• Monitors achievement of corporate key performance indicators (KPIs) and defines KPIs for their area of responsibility.

• Performs specific and time-boxed tasks in support of business goals to deliver new or manage existing products/processes.

All About You

• Exposure to collecting and/or working with data including standardizing, summarizing, offering initial observations and highlighting inconsistencies

• Understanding of the product management lifecycle, with API-based products and solutions be a plus.

• Ability to organize and capture product and process details, communicate information, set, and conduct meetings, and engage with internal partners.

• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical skills, and ability to think strategically and translate concepts into clear, actionable strategies and tactics.

• Strong self-motivation and organizational skills.

• Ability to build and maintain strong, productive, collaborative working relationships with internal stakeholders over cross-functional teams from multiple countries.

• An understanding of Cross-Border payment flow, SWIFT formats, FX management and compliance is a plus.

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.