- Term: 12 months
- Job location: Dubai UAE
- Project scope: Issuing specialist for Portfolio support
- Experience: 10 years
Job Summary:
The roles and responsibilities of the Issuing Specialist are as follows:
- Program assessment and planning:
- Develop a thorough understanding of the Client business and priorities;
- Evaluate and quantify Clientspecific opportunities and risks in the local market context;
- Integrate insights from recent market trends into business performance improvement plans;
- Handle all aspects of scheme pricing (interchange and scheme pricing).
- Deployment and implementation of initiatives:
- Set up a Center of Engagement to coordinate across key often concurrent Mastercard initiatives;
- Implement the priority value realization activities with rigor discipline and focus on Client impact;
- Deploy selected optimal mix of Mastercard products and services needed to improve Clients business performance;
- Coordinate resources Mastercard Client as well as third parties to ensure sustained quality of Client activities (Deliverables and timelines);
- Ensure compliance with scheme mandates and regulations; and
- Provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis and collaborate with the team to optimize pricing strategies;
- Review P&L (profit and loss) lines for issuing business to ensure financial feasibility; and
- Actively and efficiently liaison with Mastercard Product and Account Management functions with feedback;
- Monitoring and ongoing analysis of progress:
- Continuously track performance of relevant target portfolios products and services;
- Create value visibility for priority initiatives across relevant metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) with actiondriving dashboard; and
- Set up and manage a Client control tower to improve speed and quality of decision making.
The SBOS resource will fulfill the following requirements:
- Over 10 (ten) years of proven experience in project management with a focus on endtoend project management of complex projects in the payments domain
- Extensive experience working on payment products and proposition launches
- In depth understanding on Interchange scheme pricing and regulations.
- Solid organizational abilities with keen attention to detail and effective multitasking
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Bachelors Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
Remote Work :
No