As a Director in Services Specialist Sales you will develop sales strategies for financial institutions drive revenue through client acquisition and leverage the Test & Learn platform to enhance business performance through data-driven insights and experiments.

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
Director Specialist Sales Test & Learn - US Financial Institutions
Mastercard Services is the professional services arm of Mastercard Worldwide providing consulting marketing information and risk management services to financial institutions and merchants worldwide. With its unique category expertise deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the customer lifecycle
Mastercard Services addresses the challenges and opportunities of its clients enhances Mastercard's strategic and tactical performance and establishes Mastercard's global thought-leadership pre-eminence.
Summary:
As a Director Specialist Sales Test & Learn - US Financial Institutions you will focus on our Test & Learn platform leveraged by 300+ clients globally and growing revenue with new clients in our financial services segment.
The Test & Learn Platform enables firms to better design and analyze business experiments and predictive analytics to generate actionable insights that improve performance. Providing businesses the ability to run experiments and test initiatives in areas like physical distribution pricing marketing and customer experience. We do this by using machine learning and proprietary approaches to analyze data understand the true impact of initiatives and identify key drivers of performance.
Job Responsibilities: • Responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy for Financial Institutions within the U.S. market to secure multimillion-dollar multi-year deals • Collaborate with other account management and sales teams to identify opportunities for Mastercard clients to benefit from Test & Learn capabilities• Build and develop a cold pipeline into an active one through hunting new opportunities and/or bringing over your existing relevant network of potential clients ultimately progressing to signed platform deals • Ability to message the benefits of bundling Test & Learn with other Services offerings (Loyalty Marketing Insights etc.)• Strong communication and influencing skills should be a compelling presenter to senior client audiences and able to influence large deals• Ability to seamlessly partner across our Services sales and consulting teams• Excellent problem solving and analytics skills and should be able to engage directly with internal stakeholders and customers alike with fact-based thinking • Will serve as the face of Mastercard Services to senior-level client stakeholders including c-suite
All About You • Strong commercial drive with ability to build and monetize senior client relationships based on empathy thought leadership and subject matter expertise• Progressively complex engagement and sales within Financial Institutions; rolodex of C-Level / EVP / SVP contacts preferred • Analytic mindset applied in software or data driven solution selling with success with 12-18+ month sales cycles; never give up attitude excellent at 'pounding the pavement' through email/phone cold outreach and collaborating with internal stakeholders who maintain relationships with potential clients• Ability to thrive and build robust pipeline with limited lead generation support• Strong networker across relevant stakeholder base with the ability to listen build common ground and influence on effectively advance business opportunities and generate revenues• Revenue management experience• Top-level sales skills (internally and externally) combined with strong negotiation capabilities required for large deals
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Mastercard is a merit-based inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors including but not limited to location job-related knowledge skills and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical prescription drug dental vision disability life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
Purchase New York: $141000 - $197000 USD
Arlington Virginia: $141000 - $197000 USD
Atlanta Georgia: $123000 - $171000 USD
Boston Massachusetts: $141000 - $197000 USD
Chicago Illinois: $123000 - $171000 USD
San Francisco California: $148000 - $205000 USD