Specialist, Strategy Pricing & Interchange

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
Specialist, Strategy Pricing & Interchange
The Customer Economics team is responsible for defining Mastercard's pricing and interchange strategy for Europe. The Specialist, Strategy, Pricing and Interchange is a key function within the team as it enables the correct execution in terms of implementation and communication of this strategy.
In this role you will be responsible for managing the interchange-related implementations, communications and new interchange developments for the whole of Europe. As such, you will become a technical expert on interchange-related topics. You will be able to answer customer questions, provide trainings, guide more senior team members in defining the technical most optimal solutions for their strategies. In this role you have the opportunity to develop an in depth expertise of the interchange system, which is at the heart of our business model.
You will be part of a collaborative cross-functional team delivering on Mastercard's strategies focusing on pricing and interchange. You will be working with multiple teams across our company including MC Operations & Technology in St. Louis, Customer Delivery, GP&S (Product), country teams etc.
The key activities include:• Ensure correct implementation of interchange rates in Europe, managing the process from submission of new rates to validation of new rates• Coordinate new interchange developments for Europe, driving the process from inception to implementation• Manage the publications of interchange customer notifications, and technical specifications• Manage the publication of the Europe Region Interchange Manual • Manage the Customer Economics intranet• Address internal and external interchange-related questions
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate:• A passion for technology, and wanting to understand "how things work"• Attention to detail, and able to manage extensive data sets.• Project management skills. Ability to multi-task and work on multiple projects• Communication skills. Ability to adapt the message to the audience• Reliability and accountability• Ability to work independently• Resourcefulness, out of the box thinking and creativity to identify new approaches and processes• Good team player• Strong technical and PC skills (Excel, Access)• Fluency in English• A good sense of humor
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.