Lead, Canada Strategy

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada Mastercard Full time

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.

Title and Summary

Lead, Canada Strategy

OVERVIEW:
The Mastercard Canada team is looking for a strategy lead to drive our Canadian annual planning forward and quarterly business reviews efficiency by working across functional teams in Canada, and cross-market strategy teams. The mission of the strategy lead is to provide thought leadership to Canada’s management team and ensure the goals and objectives of the company are successfully executed in the market. They have been tasked with driving a culture and instituting an internal/external consultative approach to help the Canada market team achieve its business objectives. The individual is expected to gather and analyze information, formulate, and test hypothesis, develop and communicate recommendations as well as an execution mindset. Additionally, keep track of main product KPIs, Financial and Market Drivers. They will lead the development and execution of Mastercard Canada’s product roadmap strategy, business risks and new product development prioritization critical to the delivery of innovation and revenue growth.

This role requires an experienced leader with demonstrated ability to manage the strategy across product and sales teams to influence, evaluate and guide the go to market prioritization and planning process for new products, and lead innovation to bundle capabilities in support of revenue optimization and growth in Canada.

Oversee development and most importantly the execution of business strategy to support business growth and risk management

Supports the gathering, interpretation, of key KPI data to develop actionable steps that will improve processes and optimize results for all product teams

Work cross functionally to lead project management and decisions for cohesive, need based solutions w/revenue focused outcomes.

Lead prioritization with product and account managers to develop and manage a multi-year growth strategy in consumer and business teams, with annual objectives, KPI setting and reporting, for both internal and external delivery.

Provide leadership on cross functional accountabilities with consumer, business product teams, legal, account management, market development, marketing and finance (planning, prioritization, progress).

This position will also help to advance the broader “digital by default” strategy, and end to end solution integration of open banking, fraud and money movement assets supporting the creation of a consistent checkout and tokenization framework across non-traditional payment methodologies.

ROLE:
Lead Canada annual and long term strategic planning process, and contribute to the development of execution framework against strategic plan

Lead Strategic projects for the (design and execution) structuring ambiguous problems and take action to solve them acting as a Consultant to the organization.

Build strong business partnerships with leaders of all levels and functions across the Canada and US markets

Lead priorities and target setting process in conjunction with the Canadian Leadership team.

Manage the ongoing reporting of progress on product strategy execution providing guidance on cross-functional team objectives and synergies across workstreams.

Be the conduit with finance and product teams on forecasts and key KPI analytics.

Work with cross-functional team to develop internal reporting on success metrics, and attribution of initiatives towards market objectives.

Support identification of strategic focus areas in market, along with tactical and programmatic investment opportunities for leadership review.

Provide perspective, strategic rationale, synergy considerations and prioritization recommendations for strategic initiatives with US and Canadian leadership.

Coordinate the Product Studio review and approval process for Canada, ensuring consistency across all teams, prioritization and driving for continuous process improvement and alignment with annual and multi-year market objectives.

Manage and facilitate the Quarterly Business reporting process and risk sessions

Help business leaders across the group gain key insights into business performance by market and segment, and identify key strategic priorities

Integrate with account plan process for target

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