Manager of Localization & Transformation, Mastercard
Mastercard Strategic Growth
End Date: August 31, 2026
Office located in Angel Lane, London
Global payments technology company
Job no longer available
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
End Date: August 31, 2026
Office located in Angel Lane, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- Excel fluency required
- Able to translate data into clear, insightful narratives
- Familiarity with Mastercard internal platforms and databases an advantage
- Proven ability to produce crisp, structured, high-quality written content (e.g., newsletters, reports, briefings)
- Strong editorial judgment and attention to detail
- Intellectually curious with the ability to connect business, payments innovation, and global/regulatory dynamics
- Self-starter who can build from scratch, iterate quickly, and “get hands dirty”
- Strong execution mindset in ambiguous environments
- Team-oriented with a strong sense of shared ownership; willing to lean in to ensure team success
- High attention to detail and pride in producing accurate, polished work
- Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Experience working across markets strongly preferred
- English fluency required; additional languages a plus
What the job involves
- This is a high-visibility Manager role at the intersection of analytics, market intelligence, and strategic storytelling
- The role is fundamentally about making sense of a complex, fast-evolving external environment, and shaping how Mastercard understands and responds to it
- You will own core strategic products that inform leadership thinking and decision-making
- The role offers a unique opportunity to shape how Mastercard anticipates change, positions itself in markets, and communicates its point of view on the evolving future of payments
- Success requires the ability to move fluidly between data, narrative, and judgment: spotting patterns early, structuring ambiguity, and articulating clear implications for the business
- This role requires a high degree of ownership across both strategic thinking and execution: taking pride in producing high-quality outputs at every level of detail
- Own and maintain the team's core intelligence resources, ensuring they remain accurate, current, and aligned to evolving market, policy, and industry developments
- Oversee the ongoing curation, quality assurance, and enhancement of key datasets that underpin the team's thought leadership, research, and strategic insights
- Identify emerging trends, gaps, and opportunities within these resources and translate findings into actionable intelligence for stakeholders
- Partner with colleagues across MA to leverage these resources in reports, publications, presentations, and strategic initiatives. Produce Thought Leadership & Written Insights
- Support ongoing signals monitoring by tracking external developments across markets, policy, and competitors
- Author high-quality newsletters and insight pieces on the future of payments, geopolitics, and localization trends
- Translate complex concepts into clear, structured, and compelling narratives
- Help shape Mastercard’s internal perspective on market, regulatory, and ecosystem shifts Own KPI Dashboards & Reporting
- Design, build, and maintain dashboards tracking localization and business performance metrics
- Generate insights, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and clarity for executive audiences Support Strategy & Execution
- Contribute to strategy development, executive presentations, and playbooks
- Partner with cross-functional and regional teams to drive initiatives forward Enable Team Effectiveness & Communications
- Support team communications, knowledge management, and content platforms
- Improve processes and ways of working with an entrepreneurial mindset
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitized, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitized payments world.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)Michael has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. They are currently a Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
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