Issuing Specialist For Portfolio Support

• 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