Pre-Sales, Go To Market Manager

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.

Roles and Responsibilities

• The Pre-Sales Commercialization and Go To Market team for Corporate Solutions is the connective tissue between global product and regional execution, ensuring business development teams have what they need to translate product strategy to revenue generation.
• Engagement Strategy and Narrative
• Evolve and operationalize the business narrative, ensuring it drives strategic alignment and execution across the organization.
• Support Corporate Solutions' external narrative oversight in partnership with Investor Relations, including earnings preparation and other investor-facing moments (e.g. ICM), ensuring themes are strategically present and grounded in the most important proof points.
• Oversee sales pipeline and wins review to identify where case studies, client stories, and proof points should be developed to support external engagement and internal education.
• Develop strategy and execution plans to launch and accelerate product adoption, delivering a seamless "One Mastercard" experience for clients.
• Sales Readiness and Execution
• Support on creation of high-impact sales assets geared to target personas (pitch decks, case studies, demos, and GTM / solution sales playbooks) that translate product capabilities into compelling commercial storytelling in partnership with solutions collateral lead.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of enablement efforts through product adoption, sales engagement, and performance indicators and use success metrics to continuously refine narrative.
• Drive narrative alignment and content hygiene across the sales repository (e.g., Seismic), ensuring consistency, quality, and ease of use for sellers.
• Scale sales effectiveness moments (e.g., sales kick-offs, enablement programs), tracking training completion and pass rates and continuously improving materials based on field feedback and adoption data.
• Support GTM governance forums and routines (launch readiness, deal governance, adoption reviews) to surface issues early and drive course correction.
• Integrated Go To Market
• Partner with Marketing to drive client engagement and demand generation, aligning business strategy to campaign execution and ensuring coherence across thought leadership, campaigns, and sales motions.
• Collaborate with Marketing on client event strategy, integrated campaigns, and always-on demand generation efforts.
• Oversee prioritization and alignment of marketing investment to ensure tight linkage to strategic priorities, product deliverables and sales motions.

Requirements

• Experience crafting clear narratives and impactful client value propositions.
• Experience managing Salesforce data input / sales pipeline, reporting, hygiene, for a high performing, global sales organization.
• Experience in partnering with Marketing and Communications to execute strategy, lead generation efforts, and impact reporting.
• Experience partnering with or on global business development, sales enablement and operation teams.
• Self-starter that works autonomously and takes initiative. The perfect person for this role independently identifies organizational / process gaps and takes it upon themselves to create a solution.
• Strong business judgement, influencing skills, leadership and integrity.
• High EQ and collaborative team player who can drive consensus and build trusted relationships with business stakeholders.
• No task is too big or too small mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in B2B payments at a major financial institution or technology firm.
• Experience in Transaction Banking or at an Acquirer.
• Experience partnering with investor relations on quarterly updates and defining business perspectives.

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.