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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, Services Business Development (Greek speaking) All About UsMastercard Advisors, the professional services arm of Mastercard, provides payments-focused 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 payments lifecycle, Mastercard Data & 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.
All About The Role
The Mastercard Managing Consultant, Advisors Business Development is an active team member who drives business development and sales in the Greece, Cyprus and Malta markets. She or he acts as the key point of contact for Clients and internal stakeholders (e.g. Country Manager, Account Managers, Marketing) to drive the Advisors business across the different Client segments.
Key responsibilities include:
• Identify and develop new sales opportunities with Financial Institutions, Merchants and Government entities
• Build and maintain fruitful relationships with new and existing customers from mid to senior level management
• Leverage deep knowledge of all the Mastercard Advisors capabilities and how they fit together to create customized and relevant solutions for clients solving for their needs
• Understand client and market challenges and develop clear problem statements to address
• Create well-structured and persuasive proposals for Clients
• Work closely with Division Lead, Country Manager and local leadership to drive the Mastercard agenda in the market
• Develop a local Advisors Business Development strategy in alignment with regional and global priorities, pro-actively identify and drive new opportunities to enhance go-to-market
• Align efforts for sales success, including managing external and internal obstacles, as well as ensuring leadership alignment and building support
• Play key role in capturing of knowledge and development of intellectual capital
• Actively participate in recruiting, training and local office initiatives
Education Required:
• Top rated undergraduate degree required
All About You:
• Consulting experience from a top-rated consulting firm desired, as is payments/banking expertise and experience helping financial institutions at the executive leadership level
• Experience working within the Greek payment and banking industry
• Experience in Sales & Business Development or strong interest in moving into a Sales role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Greek and English, ability to communicate on executive level
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to work on a team, as well as driving processes independently
• Strong internal/external stakeholder management skills
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• High Attention to detail
Languages: Greek (native) and strong English skills required.
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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.
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