Principal Project 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.

Title and Summary

Principal Project Manager

The Strategy, Enablement & Transformation team is composed of strong contributors with strong project management skills, leadership abilities, and consulting mindset.
The group acts as an internal consultant supporting the Shared Services Organization which today supports three primary departments: Finance, People and Capability and Law, Franchise, and Integrity.

The primary responsibility is to successfully execute projects within the Shared Services Organization and stakeholder groups. The qualified candidate will be a member of a highly visible team working closely with operations and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop appropriate planning and execute on projects.

This position requires a highly collaborative individual with strong process and project management skills who will need to coordinate global relationships across multiple functional areas, third party providers and regional constituencies.

Role:
• Planning, developing, and executing project schedules to ensure timely completion of deadlines and milestones.
• Provide insights to enhance processes and tooling, support implementation best practices and process improvements derived from identifying areas of weakness and strategizing improvements.
• Develop, run, and distribute status and progress reports to update leadership and project team members.
• Regularly communicates to senior management regarding the status of specific project deliverables.
• Perform analysis and assessment activities to provide stakeholders with timely updates.

All About You:
• Experience in large-scale, cross functional projects.
• Project and/or Program Management experience, with a good understanding of a typical lifecycle
• Experience evaluating business processes and providing advice on ways to effectively streamline business processes and efficiencies (i.e., Lean Six Sigma)
• Expert presenter using data and visuals to tell project status and stories to various audiences, up to executives.
• Excellent communication (written, oral and presentation) and people skills.
• Experience with project risk management and investigation, consulting and strategic judgement, and business process assessment.
• Professional services or consulting experience a plus
• Experience in analysis of operational data to support business decisions and proven process management experience - inclusive of process design and system optimization.

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.