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Title and Summary

Senior Vice President, Government Engagement, Latin America and Caribbean

Overview
• Mastercard is dedicated to promoting inclusive growth and financial inclusion. The mandate of the LAC Regional Public Sector unit is to build durable, trusted relationships with key government agencies to accelerate their transition to a cashless ecosystem though digitalization, while increasing revenues and seeding new markets for Mastercard. We drive relevance and revenues in the government space by developing effective regional go to market campaigns supported by clear priorities, success metrics and incentives. We provide expert sales support to both country managers and local sales resources through a solid client engagement playbook approach. We guide the transition from reactive solutions sales to strategic government engagement programs. And we ensure alignment between regional demand and our global solutions.
• LAC Regional Public Sector role focuses on aligning Mastercard’s product, service and ecosystem capabilities to solve for the challenges government clients face today in the areas of financial inclusion, citizen services, economic development and operational excellence. We do this by engaging, listening and leading. The role requires industry subject matter expertise, relationship building at the most senior levels and closing deal. We apply Mastercard’s capabilities and market organizing skills to support client success. We have a good idea what works. But we also have a passion for learning, exploring new capabilities, and applying the best methodologies and insights to the government business.
• This role is at the heart of our intent to build commercial engagements in the government space and scale our business across the region to drive revenues, market relevance and societal-economic impact. The unit is regionally deployed and focuses on a select number of priority markets and clients, directly agreed with – and accountable to - the senior leadership in the region.
• The LAC Regional Public Sector business lead is accountable for:
-\tThe development of the LAC regional government strategy, including a list of prioritized client and solution opportunities.
o\tDemand analysis at regional and division level, engaging with division & country market development teams and country managers.
o\tMapping demand into existing Mastercard solutions.
o\tIdentifying gaps in our solutions portfolio and actively engaging the relevant units, regionally or gobally through the Global Govermnent Center of Excellence, to address gaps and influence roamaps.
o\tIdentifying new locally developed solutions, running opportunity demand analysis and developing the business case for replication, engaging the relevant units. Driving those new solutions to market.
o\tEstablishing the overall business model for Mastercard’s engagement in LAC.
-\tThe development of regional relevant thought leadership and solution / engagement innovation programs
-\tThe direct engagement on prioritized, strategic client opportunities to provide:
o\tExpert sales support to local market development and sales teams
o\tAssistance to country managers in understand existing business requirements, government engagement strategy, building relationship maps and helping win strategic deals
o\tAligment of global, regional and local resources to drive project execution at the client level, in close coordination with all relevant regional and local units, and with other parts of the Mastercard Strategic Growth unit.
-\tThe development of a scaling program across the region, including:
o\tThe capacity building at the division and country level through organizing sales trainings on relevant Mastercard solutions, on global and regional narratives and on client references.
o\tThe growth of the existing regional community of practice to cross-fertilize regional and global best practices
•\tThis position reports directly to the LAC Market Development EVP with dual reporting to the Head of Public Sector and Strategic Growth globally.
Role
• Primary accountability for development and execution of the regional government strategy, starting from:
-\tUnderstanding regional, national and local priorities, both for the various governments and Mastercard
-\tEngaging region and division leadership to prioritize clients and solution opportunities.
-\tSecuring global, regional and local resources to execute on the plan and drive marquee wins
-\tMeasuring the clients pipeline across the region in order to grow it, and developing new approaches to improving pipeline conversion into revenues
-\tAccelerating solutions deployment and capacity development by providing regional trainings, facilitating best practice and solution exchanges, developing locally relevant engagement playbooks and providing expert sales support for prioritized engagements.
•\tRepresent the Region within Strategic Growth. Drive strategic alignment.
•\tBuild and curate the regional community of practice. Act as first line of support for regional & divisional presidents for thought leadership and strategic engagements.
All About You
•\tExperience working for or closely with government agencies, managing process improvement and transformative change initiatives, as well as proven experience in engaging very senior government leaders to build durable relations.
•\tProven track in leading and closing large and complex government deals in the region.
•\tConsultative selling focused, with deep product, services, and solutions expertise.
•\tAdept at interacting with senior Mastercard stakeholders in terms of engagement, communication and transparency of purpose. Can skillfully lead complex regional initiatives that require collaboration across functional, geographical and cultural lines.
•\tDemonstrated ability to work across divisional boundaries, within the region.
•\tSelf-motivated, thrives in a fast paced environment; readiness to take-on stretch goals.
•\tStrong gravitas, exceptional relationship management, influencing and communication skills.
•\tUndergraduate degree required. MBA or graduate degree preferred.
•\tEnglish and Spanish fluency is required.

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In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.