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Title and Summary

Specialist, Product Management

Job Overview: The role within Real Time Payments Global will have responsibility for oversight, helping define and shape Portfolio Management & Investment ROI practices, strategy, governance and stakeholder relationships, that looks to develop changing the ways we work and driving opportunities for profitable growth through robust investment governance and business case development.

Role - In this position, you will:
•\tDrive Portfolio Management and Investment strategy and develop working practices.
•\tDrive Return on Investment (ROI) opportunities through robust investment governance and business case quality assurance, cost management and manage end-to-end roadmaps.
•\tDevelop new ways of strategic thinking, value proposition and change management capabilities, using success metrics, dashboards and dynamic MI reporting.
•\tAdherence to activity timelines throughout Fiscal investment planning cycles, meeting deadlines at all times.
•\tDrive risk management, process adherence, governance/approvals and records management.
•\tDevelop a deep understanding of business strategy in order to design and execute plans in partnership across Product & Engineering.
•\tIdentifies ways for how the business can respond and commit to customer needs, partnering with cross-functional teams to establish the best outcome.
•\tOversight of demand management and ongoing maintenance of investment backlog and feature prioritisation.
•\tActing as secretary for appropriate RTP Global forums & LT meetings, documenting minutes & tracking actions, along with acting as a delegate when required.
•\tResponsible for continuous review, development, and implementation of new and creative approaches to ensure Mastercard business objectives are met.
•\tResponsible for preparation and document quality of portfolio management & investment artefacts on a monthly, quarterly, annual and ad-hoc basis.
•\tDrive business improvement initiatives, promoting innovation & efficiency and improving ways of working.
•\tActively partner with multiple internal teams across Mastercard to meet objectives and to deliver on the day-to-day business commitments, including driving effective relations across partnership functions, e.g. Product & Engineering, Operations & Technology, Delivery, Finance, Risk, Legal & Franchise Integrit.

All About You - The ideal candidate for this position exhibits the following skills and capabilities:
•\tExperience within the payments technology industry an advantage.
•\tGood customer empathy and the ability to act with a client-first philosophy.
•\tGood communication, presentation and interpersonal skills including the ability to work with and influence people across the matrix organization
•\tStrong project management skills, including planning and ability to control moving priorities and change effectively and highly organised to work effectively on multiple concurrent projects.
•\tAbility to work with different stakeholders at all levels across the business, always demonstrating credibility and competence.
•\tAbility to work under pressure and the disposition to work flexibly when needed.
•\tAbility to quickly conceptualize and express lines of thinking
•\tAbility to ask the right questions to drill in on issues to drive conclusions and actions
•\tAn eye for detail and a questioning/analytical mind-set.
•\tAble to work under pressure to meet deadlines and react quickly to changing priorities
•\tDemonstrates strong self-awareness, open to different approaches and ideas, and can adapt easily in different situations.
•\tSolid people management skills, acting with integrity and credibility.

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.