Director, Account Management, Financial Institutions Partnerships, Canada

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
Director, Account Management, Financial Institutions Partnerships, Canada
Join an enterprise sales team that brings the breadth of Mastercard's capabilities to leading financial institution partners across Canada.
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Financial Institutions Partnerships team works with clients to advance Mastercard's strategy by growing core, commercial, and emerging payments, and by delivering value-added services, including cyber and intelligence solutions.
We are building a diverse, strategic, consultative team of sales leaders, problem-solvers, and relationship managers. We value initiative, strong enterprise sales capabilities, intellectual curiosity, resilience, and the ability to mobilize resources to deliver results.
The team supports Retail and Commercial growth by partnering across Payments, Treasury, Everyday Banking, Digital Channels, Data & Analytics, Marketing, Fraud/Risk, and Finance.
Reports to the Vice-President, Account Management, and is based in Toronto.
Role• Provide superior strategic account management driven by robust planning - building a deep understanding of customer needs, defining creative solutions to meet those needs, and working effectively across internal functions to bring together the resources required to deliver enhanced value to the customer• Identify and develop new business opportunities (with both existing and new customers) that provide the best potential for future business growth, and appreciable return on financial investments. Qualify opportunities by working with internal product experts & other stakeholders to then progress the sales process• Support strategically significant organizational initiatives, including cross-selling of key Mastercard products, capabilities and solutions to deepen relationships• Work with customers to build an in-depth understanding of their business and a point of view on how Mastercard solutions can address the needs of their business, leveraging internal stakeholders to efficiently move prospect through highly matrixed buy cycles• Develop detailed business cases, including financial analysis/modeling, in support of FI initiatives• Negotiate, execute and manage the customer contract agreement process, ensuring global linkage of resources and information sharing
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position:• Enterprise sales experience in payments or technology with exposure to Financial Institutions or experience in the FI space with some responsibility for payments, co-brand and business development is desirable• Demonstrated track record of planning, managing, and closing complex, competitive sales efforts and delivering results in a fast-paced environment with a sense of urgency and accuracy• Dynamic, forward-thinking positive team player, adept at engaging and leveraging internal resources to achieve success and contribute to the wider team environment• Ability to manage and grow internal and external cross functional relationships and partnerships with executives at all levels• Sound business judgment with established strategic and conceptual thinking and planning skills• Excellent strategic thinking and analytical skills with a proven track record in problem-solving and creating solutions that increase revenue• Proficiency in Excel and Powerpoint, and excellent presentation skills and executive presence• Strong project management skills• Familiarity with Salesforce• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
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.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. This posting reflects one or more current openings on our team.
Pay Ranges
Toronto, Canada: $138,000 - $221,000 CAD