Manager of Research & Insights, Mastercard
$124-199k
3 days a week in office (Purchase, NY)
Global payments technology company
Job no longer available
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$124-199k
3 days a week in office (Purchase, NY)
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
- The ideal candidate is passionate about bringing consumer/customer empathy and understanding into business decision-making
- They are a highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical/creative storyteller and possess an entrepreneurial mindset
- Previous experience in a strategic insights/planning role
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree, Advanced Degree preferred
- Client-side and partner/agency-side experience preferred; experience in payments/financial industry a plus, but not required
- Use empathy and understanding to look at business challenges through the eyes of consumers/customers
- Possess an analytical mindset, with a passion for deconstructing and reframing questions and an ability to distill datasets into clear and meaningful recommendations
- Have consultative abilities to diagnose research needs, influence senior stakeholders, and problem solve
- Continually keep a pro-active eye on the market, trends and competition in culture, our industry, and our partners’ industries
- Be a strong, confident writer and speaker, able to communicate vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
- Possess strong skills in persuasive and engaging presentation and creative deliverable writing
- Have a high-degree of self-initiative, moving nimbly and re-prioritizing projects based on business need; be deadline-driven and own multiple projects at one time
- Have a fundamental understanding of how to educate and inspire others across various departments and levels of experience
- Be an enthusiastic, resourceful team-player
- Be detail-oriented and possess operational skills to maximize team efficiency (i.e., project management) Technical skills:
- Draft RFP’s, facilitate questionnaire changes/updates, manage shifting project schedules, provide presentation feedback
- Have a solid understanding of business objectives, marketing objectives and KPI’s and how this translates to research approaches
- Have solid quantitative research experience (i.e., cluster analysis, concept testing, ad testing, segmentation, MaxDiff, Conjoint Analysis) and qualitative approaches (i.e., human-design thinking, creative methodologies)
- Experience with detailed analysis and aligning disparate data sources; familiarity with using syndicated data platforms, data analysis and or/data visualization tools (any of the following: Domo, Tableau, crunch.io, YouGov BrandIndex/Profiles, MRI, Simmons, SPSS)
- Advanced excel and powerpoint/storytelling skills
- Have supported development of thought leadership materials
What the job involves
- The NAM Research & Insights team is looking for a manager to drive our consumer and customer-centric culture forward through leading research studies that push boundaries across marketing/communications, product innovation, and business development
- As Mastercard is a leader in the payments industry, this role delves into topics that cover culturally relevant topics, such as: commerce/payment, finance, technology, small business, retail, travel, experiences and purpose
- Leverage existing intelligence – both external: primary, secondary, and culturally relevant trends (including syndicated data tools) and internal: primary research from other teams (global, etc.) - to shape and inform the foundation of research projects and to answer ad-hoc business questions
- Identify emerging consumer behaviors and culturally relevant trends; manage insights repository
- Partner with cross-functional teams – consumer and B2B marketing/comms, product, small business, business development, account management, etc. to identify gaps in knowledge, uncover hypotheses, and formulate research recommendations (i.e., partner selection, appropriate methodologies)
- Manage and execute custom qualitative/quantitative research projects with external partners/vendors, including identifying key consumer and customer unmet needs, wants, desires to provide decision-making and recommendations across business units
- Push the boundaries in research approaches and team efficiencies – provide creative ideas on interesting methodologies, progressive research partners/vendors, innovative data visualization tools, etc
- Be a storytelling expert, an analytical master of spotting nuances in data analysis, shape creative narratives and outputs, and push findings to “so what” recommendations for the business
- Provide creative ideas on socializing insights and developing thought leadership materials from research, possessing a “marketing of insights” mentality
- Provide team operational support in monthly project tracking, etc
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 digitised, 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 digitised payments world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently 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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