Vice President, Business Development

New York, NY

The Cyber & Intelligence (C&I) solutions North America team is responsible for sales of world-class risk, fraud, cyber security, and authentication products and services in the US and Canada. The products we support help protect the integrity of the electronic payment system as well as ensure payments and interactions are simple, safe and secure in the digital and physical world. The solutions are primarily focused on fraud prevention, artificial intelligence, risk mitigation, authentication, identity, biometrics and dispute resolution including Mastercard’s latest acquisitions.

The Vice President will lead a team of Directors to achieve the regional sales targets and support Mastercard account managers in security/fraud related conversations. This role will report to the SVP, Business Development.

You will be solving unique business challenges partnering closely with Mastercard account teams and product teams to define the sales strategies for C&I products across diverse business segments. The role will drive scaling of sales and the broad penetration of C&I solutions through deep product expertise and solutions sales discipline.

Accountable for ensuring that established sales revenue targets are met for C&I solutions in the US and Canada
Responsible to lead a team of NAM C&I sales experts
Identifies new opportunities and defines market growth strategy for C&I
Partner with Nudata (Bahvioral Biometrics) Brighterion (AI Modeling) Ethoca (Dispute Resolution) Ekata (Identity Verification) and RiskRecon (Cyber Security risk assessment) sales teams to drive synergies and efficiencies
Lead integrated account planning process for C&I in US and Canada
Develop C&I sales strategy with account management teams
Develop new ways to go to market with other Mastercard product groups (New Payment Flows, D&S, Digital, Merchants)
Lead C-level customer meetings across issuer, merchant, acquirer and digital partner segments to drive business for Mastercard and C&I
Become a specialist on the solutions that C&I provide to the market and an active thought leader on Mastercard’s approach to Cyber Security
Accountable for delivering on individual sales target and C&I team target
Build and maintain sales pipeline with accurate information to drive proper forecasting
Help design and rollout of sales playbooks, documentation and provide market feedback for product managers to improve existing solutions
Work cross functionally to close sales opportunities with legal, marketing, product and account teams
Captures customer feedback on product and emerging needs and communicates feedback to regional product teams.
Effective partnering with internal and external stakeholders to reach agreements

All About You:

Excel at account research and planning
Be well versed at navigating medium and large org charts
Be practiced at qualifying opportunities and managing your time
Understand your customers' businesses at a technical and operational level
Create trust and value while building enduring relationships
Demonstrate business value through a solutions sales approach to meet/exceed goals
Identify and secure executive sponsorship to solidify business relationships and opportunities
Negotiate commercial terms with contracts up to C-level executives
Strategize and prioritize your own sales pipeline
Meet and exceed sales goals and quotas
Strong presentation and communication skills
Proven people management and employee development experience
Experience in fraud/risk or authentication business is required
Payments experience is highly desired.
Technical cyber, fraud product sales
Proven track record selling technology solutions directly and through partner channels
Overnight travel required (50%)

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.

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Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.