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Primary responsibilities include overall accountability and leadership for a complex projects successful and timely implementation as well as satisfying the intended business results. Core responsibility for managing relationships and communicating with the project sponsor, senior management and a wide range of project contributors. Identifies key barriers to a projects success and actively manages all mitigation activities.
Job Responsibility:
Overall accountability and leadership for a complex projects successful and timely implementation
Managing relationships and communicating with the project sponsor, senior management and a wide range of project contributors
Identifies key barriers to a projects success and actively manages all mitigation activities
Manages, evaluates and develops clients programs to support business, products, marketing, and technology needs for all MasterCard cards and payment products and services
Responsible for Programs and Projects Management w/ External and Internal Customer Interaction
Provide leadership and oversight on various projects of a complex nature
Responsible for planning, developing, and executing schedules to ensure timely completion of project deadlines and milestones
Ensure methodology compliance and manage resolutions, reporting to management when necessary
Ensure timely and accurate communication with project staff throughout the life cycle of the project
Maintains a work plan identifying responsibilities, deliverables and processes that must be executed in order to achieve expected results
Monitor and manage the project budget
Must be familiar with the system’s scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member in order to effectively coordinate the activities of the teams
Identify and monitor project risks
Regularly communicates to management regarding the status of specific project deliverables
Provide measurable input into new products, processes, standards or plans in support of the business
Effectively lead the project team to align with the business objectives, project schedule, and project budget
Effectively deal with difficult situations and help develop solutions to complex problems
Supports pipeline management function as needed
Support Customer Delivery Geography managing high impact initiatives as defined with geography head
Manages kick off meeting of initiatives and ensures key components for successful delivery are in place
Coordinates MasterCard internal functions to ensure delivery of initiatives within budget, within established time frames and ensuring internal and external customer satisfaction
Alerts and manages deviations from original plans to ensure actions taken to minimize impacts on budgets and time frames
Provides regular updates to customer and MasterCard internal teams
Ensures smooth transition to production environment and maintenance pieces are in place to support on-going operation with customer
Manages/ work on several projects concurrently
Ability to travel at least 30% of the time for meetings with customers, training and staff meetings as needed
Requirements:
Demonstrated expertise in the areas of strategy, planning and project management
4 to 7 years of experience with structured methodology and project planning tools
Knowledge of payments industry preferred
Project management, planning, analytical skills
Ability to communicate and present/report
Interpersonal skills to lead a diverse team (internal and customers)
Bachelor's degree required
PMP certification is desired
Listening, oral, written and presentation skills and effective interpersonal skills
Organizational and planning and multi-tasking skills
Strong analytical/problem solving and planning skills
Strong leadership, interpersonal, relationship-building and negotiation skills required with a solid track record for developing internal and external relationships
English is a must, written and oral communication skills