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

Manager, Area Marketing

Overview

The Mastercard Western Europe team is looking for a Manager of Marketing & Communications, Iberia to join our amazing team. We’re looking for a talented team player who has the ability to drive our next era of growth and win the hearts and minds of consumers, clients, media, analysts, and business decision-makers.

About You

You’re a strategic thinker who brings value to every project by approaching it with a curious mind, a great deal of creativity and precision when executing. You are a natural team player, you lead by example, and you’re always looking for ways to infuse a creative edge into everything you do.

You have a passion or interest in payments and digital technologies, and a willingness to keep up with the latest trends and developments in our industry.

Finally, you have a growth mindset. You’re passionate about skill development, continual learning, and maximizing every opportunity to push yourself and those around you.

You know when to be honest, when to be diplomatic, and when to say “No” – regardless of who made the request. You understand our client’s pain points and our mission, and you work tirelessly to bring them together.

All About You

Key attributes

• Be a team player and know how to have fun
• Be curious, and passionate about technology
• Be creative, and execute with unparalleled precision
  
  
  

Key skills

• Have agency experience, managing multiple clients/stakeholders
• Have strong project management skills
• Speak English, Spanish and Portuguese
• Have experience leading marketing campaigns
• Have strong presentation, written communication, and influencing skills
  
  
  

Business skills

• Collaborate with and serve as a strategic partner to clients, internal teams and stakeholders across the company
• Understand the business goals and source marketing strategies to meet them
• Work effectively with others to identify challenges and opportunities and use creative and strategic thinking to generate solutions
• Demonstrate a curiosity to stay on top of emerging trends in the technology and payments space
  
  
  

Workstyle

• A quick learner with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced team environment
• Passionate problem solver with a love of marketing, and storytelling
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with a positive “get stuff done” mindset
• Possesses a growth mindset and a willingness to give and receive feedback
• Collaborative and respectful of diverse perspectives and other creative skill sets
  
  
  

• In charge of all B2C brand marketing activities, including sponsorship properties contracted and leveraged in market, B2B and B2B2C activities including issuer, merchants and product marketing.
• Plays a critical role in the matrix organization driving through cluster and major market objectives while supporting global marketing and communications strategy and product priorities.
• Customer facing and responsible to drive the marketing value proposition including attendance and speaking at events, customer executive steercos and contributing to RFPs.
• Drives outsized impact across Iberia and Western Europe.
  
  
  

Experience:

• Proven ability in building and strengthening collaborative relationships with global Marketing counterparts and representing the voice of the cluster and local market.
• Significant experience and proven success in one or more marketing families, with extensive experience in three or more marketing families, including PR and communications, B2B and Consumer Marketing.
• Experience operating in sophisticated advertising and media markets.
• Proven track record of major contract negotiation driving to win/win and or sound commercial success aligning marketing and communications with the business.
• Experience engaging at C-suite level within both own organization and customer/partner organizations.
• Experience operating in an organization where the customer is B2B but the brand is also B2C.
• Strength in building partnerships and relationships with proven ability to influence.
• Ability to operate with agility and be comfortable to carve out strategy where there is ambiguity.
• Clear experience in empowering teams to take thoughtful risks using every experience as a growth opportunity to drive a culture of innovation and growth.
  
  
  

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.