Our Purpose

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Title and Summary

Manager, Products and Solutions

Manager, Products and Solutions, Acceptance
The Customer Solutions Center is a structure which enables Mastercard to develop better solutions & bundles for prioritized customer segments in markets in line with evolving customer needs.
It is the housing for all Mastercard capabilities in a geography, and it aims to drive Mastercard growth and revenue by creating and selling compelling data-driven, scalable needs-based solutions to new and existing customers by tapping into Mastercard’s extensive repertoire of products and services offerings.
Products and Solutions, Acceptance support the Customer Solution Center Lead (CSCL) & Solution Architects (SA) to bring together existing MA capabilities, products, and solutions in a holistic, bundled way to customers.
They also act as an expert for their products/solutions portfolio in their geography, to drive market enablement and support sales as well as acting as key interface with regional product teams to ensure an effective feedback loop.
Manager, Products and Solutions, Acceptance reports to the Acceptance Lead in East Arabia.
Key responsibilities
Act as an expert for their geography/solution portfolio
•\tAn understanding of acquiring landscape in Pakistan and the regulations pertaining to it.
•\tBring their deep knowledge of products, services, or platform capabilities in a solution-selling environment.
•\tAccountable for being the torch bearer for rolling out and help scale new acquiring and acceptance concepts and initiatives like contactless, Tap on Phone, Mastercard payment gateway, QR, etc.
•\tProactively monitor and engage with customers to ensure customer success and benefit from Mastercard’s products and solutions.
•\tWork closely with account managers for FI, digital and government verticals to build holistic propositions for clients and markets in respective verticals.
Enable an environment of digital payments by working with acquirers and aggregators in the market to build a comprehensive acceptance network amongst merchants, ecommerce entities, service providers, government offices, etc, Support CSC value proposition development and sale:
•\tProvide the Solution Architects (SA) and the Customer Solution Center Lead (CSCL) with their solution expertise in crafting the value proposition
•\tCoordinate with the help of SA and CSCL, with other sales specialists in developing an end-to-end value proposition
•\tProvide their expertise and deep knowledge of product implementation and success with clients during solution selling process (upon the request of the CSCL or AM/BD)
•\tBe customer centric and provide visibility to the CSCL and SA on latest product requirements pertaining to acceptance solutions. Ensure understanding of new product development within their purview and communicate accurate solution knowledge to tackle client opportunities. Work with internal experts and clients to co-create solutions when required.
Drive localization, market enablement and support sales:
•\tEnabling new capabilities in the market e.g. SRC, MDES, Contactless, QR etc. and ensuring market readiness
•\tSupporting AM’s in their market to optimize what we have today
Work directly with client counterparts on non-complex, one solution focused opportunities when the AM needs their support.
Knowledge and best practice sharing:
•\tShare information on latest customer needs and opportunities as well as relevant market intelligence with the product management teams to drive smart solutioning internally within MA
Share best practices and knowledge with other SSs to improve solutioning of their product, service, or platform within client contexts.
Required Skills
•\tDeep technical expertise in assigned product, service or platform capability
•\tAbility to collaborate and work on internal squads created to develop end-to-end solutions for clients with multiple MA capabilities i.e. products, services or platforms
•\tClear ability to problem solve and understand relationship with the client’s needs
•\tAbility to communicate with and build relationship with client counterparts when requested by account managers or business development managers
•\tStrong communication skills

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.