Mastercard
Job title:
Vice President, Sustainability Solutions
Company
Mastercard
Job description
Our PurposeMastercard 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 SummaryVice President, Sustainability SolutionsOverview
Digital Donations – Commercialization is a newly formed team, focused on driving innovation in the charitable donations / individual giving vertical (valued at ~$600B globally), capturing the secular shift from cash to incremental MA volumes, and in doing so, enabling wider societal benefits.
Key markets where the secular shift opportunity is highest have been evaluated. Within these markets, pilots are being developed that focus on leveraging our assets (tap on phone, Click to Pay etc) and partnerships towards cash displacement and digital optimisation.The team’s remit extends to the global management and operation of the Priceless Planet Coalition (PPC), given the strong synergies with stimulating consumer and corporate donations to meet MA’s public pledge to restore 100M trees and play a meaningful role in addressing the climate crisis.
The PPC employs a forest restoration model dedicated to regrowing forests in locations that represent a heightened global need. We partner with Conservation International (CI) and World Resources Institute, who lead the PPC’s mobilization and coordination of restoration efforts, collaborating with local communities and stakeholders for long-term forest stewardship and employing science-based best practices for the selection, implementation and long-term monitoring of restoration efforts.This team owns our 100M tree external pledge and negotiates across the company to secure support for the required fundraising. This team oversees the daily operation of the PPC including supporting regional colleagues to secure fundraising through development of marketing toolkits and campaigns, facilitation of contracts and fund flows with CI, partnering with Corporate Sustainability on developing global partner donation agreements, negotiation with regions and markets on reforestation sites, advocating for and encouraging support for PPC across the company.Role
Reporting to the global Sustainability Solutions lead, the successful candidate will own the Digital Donations secular shift strategy and go to market plan. They will lead and inspire a team accountable for evolving, testing, and scaling up pilots that will capture incremental GDV and MA revenues within the individual giving vertical, aligned with our business case projections.
The successful candidate will define, refine and execute PPC fundraising strategies to support regional fundraising KPIs and campaign design, engaging new and existing PPC partners to donate funds towards our goal.Additional responsibilities will include:
– Fostering a close relationship between MA’s global and regional teams as well as other key stakeholders – including sales & account teams, acceptance, and subject matter experts – to gather feedback and drive initiatives and ongoing program improvements
– Identifying and managing globally owned pilots and scaled fundraising opportunities
– Oversee the improvement of operational process, policies and procedures associated with PPCAll About You
You will have relevant experience in the fundraising/NGO sector, program management, market development. You will have a strong interest in charitable and sustainability programs and initiatives and may have had recent involvement. You will have exceptional relationship management expertise and a strong knowledge of activities and developments in the individual giving / sustainability sector as they relate to the payments sector and more broadly.Other key attributes:
– This position requires a highly collaborative and self-driven individual who will need to develop and inspire their team to optimal performance. They will manage relationships across multiple functional areas, regions, executives as well as external partners
– Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to identify key issues, structure analysis and synthesize large amounts of data, and provide recommendations effectively
– Personal presence and ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to executive management and business partners both internally and externally
– Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility; team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
– Ability to embrace complexity, but deliver/articulate simplicity
– Strong verbal and written communication skillsRequired Skills:
– Bachelors degree required, Master’s degree preferredCorporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:53:40 GMT
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