
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
Manager, Global Communications Summary:The Global Communications team advances and protects Mastercard's brand, drives business performance, and fosters a world-class culture by inspiring, engaging, educating, and connecting employees, customers, partners and shareholders. We're seeking a skilled communications manager to collaborate with our Global Marketing team, with a focus on brand innovation. The ideal candidate excels across communications disciplines—through strategic media relations, social media, industry engagement, event management, and employee communications—while influencing key internal and external stakeholders.
The role will work closely with partners in Marketing, Communications and other functional areas.
Specifically, the role will focus on building our brand reputation:
• Storytelling: Bringing compelling brand stories to life with internal and external audiences (media, influencers, employees, customers)
• Executive Communications: Providing strategic counsel and day-to-day support for our Marketing Leadership Team, including our CMO
• Event Placement and support: Helping to secure and support key speaking opportunities, with a focus on the marketing industry
• Executive Social Media Management: Leveraging social platforms to engage and inform
• Influencer Management: Driving engagement with top-tier media and influencers, proactively building, managing and strengthening trusted relationships
• Collaboration: Partnering closely with regional communications and marketing teams to drive locally relevant global initiatives
• Cross-Channel Campaign Strategy: Craft strategic plans that leverage social and traditional media, among other channels, to reach consumer and business audiences around Priceless and the power of our brand
Characteristics:
The successful candidate must:
• Be a strategic thinker as well as a practical doer, comfortable with rolling up your sleeves to get things done while focusing on bringing new ideas to the table
• Be able to make strategic, prudent decisions (at times without full information), without leaning on agency support
• Take risks, identifying emerging ideas and consider ways that we can experiment to add fresh value and thinking
• Be able to navigate and influence stakeholders in a fast-paced environment against fast-breaking developments and timelines
• Have excellent written and oral communications skills to craft compelling narratives around complex, emerging topics; flawless editing to support clear ideas
• Demonstrated track record of media relationships and placements
• Strong executive presence and ability to work collaboratively and deliver results in a fast-paced, dynamic, and global work environment
• Entrepreneurial, creative thinker, pursuing new ideas and bringing best practices
• Strict attention to detail and enthusiasm for collaboration
• Be able to multitask multiple priorities and take end-to-end ownership of programs
• And you are a passionate communicator with deep attention to detail, motivated by metrics-led success, and a true partnership with the business and its leadership Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.
Pay Ranges
Purchase, New York: $124,000 - $199,000 USDApply on company website