Director, Area Marketing Job Listing at Mastercard in Pune, MH (Job ID R-273072)

Description

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

Director, Area Marketing Director, Area Marketing

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
We are seeking a Director who will operate as a strategic extension of our GBSC marketing enablement function, partnering closely with senior regional and functional leaders to elevate how insights, performance, and strategy are communicated. This role focuses on transforming complex data, analysis, and business context into clear, compelling narratives that inform decision-making, align stakeholders, and demonstrate impact.

The ideal candidate blends analytical rigor, exceptional presentation craft, financial and monetization fluency, and a strong executive presence. This role requires the ability to influence and lead conversations with SVP+ stakeholders, develop strategic frameworks, and articulate insights with clarity, polish, and confidence.

Role
• Translate complex data, performance results, and business insights into crisp, high-impact narratives for executive audiences.
• Design and deliver visually compelling, executive-ready presentations that clearly articulate strategy, performance, risks, and recommendations.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders on message architecture, presentation flow, and data-backed storytelling.
• Support leadership forums such as planning cycles, budget discussions, operating reviews, and executive leadership engagements.
• Provide flexible, on-demand narrative and presentation support across priority initiatives, enabling teams to scale impact without duplicating capabilities.
• Champion structured approaches to reporting, insight synthesis, and leadership communication to improve consistency and quality.
• Manage high-visibility executive deliverables with strong attention to detail, accuracy, and strategic alignment.
• Regularly communicate status, risks, and progress of assigned initiatives to senior stakeholders.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Demonstrated ability to craft executive‑ready narratives using data, insights, and marketing performance results.
• Experience influencing and presenting to senior executives (SVP/EVP level).
• Strong understanding of marketing strategy, value creation, and an ability to interpret marketing monetization models.
• Expert in designing polished, compelling decks for executive audiences.
• Ability to interpret dashboards, campaign data, ROI models, and performance analytics; comfortable simplifying complexity.
• Ability to connect insights into strategic recommendations and business outcomes.
• Confident communicator who can lead discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work across functions, time zones, and senior levels.
• High attention to detail, strong organizational ability, and disciplined communication habits.

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.

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