Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation

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

Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation

Sr Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation

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 (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 Business Expansion & Transformation (BET) in Business & Market Insights (B&MI). Business Expansion & Transformation is a new team within Business & Market Insights, charged with bridging B&MI’s current growth momentum with its 2030 growth ambition. BET does this by defining the strategic aperture for where the enterprise should source and originate new growth opportunities, identifying and interpreting internal and external signals, and translating those signals into tangible, investable opportunities.

BET owns the front end of the growth lifecycle—from opportunity sourcing and origination through evaluation, portfolio construction, and graduation into development. This includes standing up new business verticals—products outside existing portfolios with use cases spanning multiple portfolios—as well as foundational capabilities that strengthen the current portfolio and create pathways to businesses the company could not otherwise build. BET acts as the accountable end to end steward, first building and owning the opportunity pipeline, then coordinating product, technology, and go to market partners to advance initiatives from early concept to scale.

The Role. The Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation plays a critical role supporting the Vice President in building, operating, and scaling BET’s opportunity pipeline sourcing high potential new businesses and transformative technologies. This role is highly executional and exposure rich, sitting at the intersection of strategy, analytics, technology, and stakeholder coordination in a first of its kind team at Mastercard. The individual will operationalize and execute the prioritization, governance, and tooling that underpin BET’s opportunity engine. The individual will also support due diligence workstreams and act as a day to day liaison across internal and external stakeholders. The role is ideal for a high potential professional with strong analytical rigor, structured thinking, and an interest in how new businesses are discovered, validated, and built inside a complex global enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Pipeline Prioritization. Support the operation and evolution of BET’s opportunity prioritization framework by applying consistent evaluation criteria, tracking assumptions and risks, and monitoring pipeline health, stage progression, and portfolio balance across time horizons.

• Advanced Automation & Tooling. Partner closely with technology teams to design, pilot, and scale advanced, agentic, and automated approaches to opportunity discovery, signal ingestion, diligence workflows, and portfolio tracking that expand BET’s reach and efficiency.

• Opportunity Diligence & Analysis. Execute select structured due diligence across growth opportunities, including market sizing, customer and demand validation, competitive landscape analysis, business model assessment, and early commercial logic, in direct support of the Vice President and BET leadership.

• Investment Narratives. Develop clear, insight driven opportunity narratives and decision frameworks that synthesize analysis, assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs into executive ready briefs, diligence readouts, and multi scenario business cases to support VP and SVP level investment decisions.

• Stakeholder Liaison. Act as the day to day liaison and central point of coordination between Business Expansion & Transformation and cross functional internal partners (Technology, Product, Finance, Legal, Privacy, Foundry, GTM), as well as select external stakeholders, ensuring alignment, momentum, and transparency.

• Business to Tech Translation. Translate strategic and operational needs into clear requirements for data products, analytics, automation, and tooling, ensuring business objectives are effectively converted into scalable technical solutions.

• Executive Communication. Prepare concise, executive ready reporting materials, including dashboards, progress updates, and narrative summaries that clearly communicate insights, implications, and recommendations to senior leadership.

Qualifications Requirements. Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with comfort operating amid ambiguity and incomplete data. Experience supporting strategy, growth, business operations, consulting, product, or analytics teams, with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear, executive ready narratives. Demonstrated ability to coordinate across technical and business stakeholders, with high attention to detail, strong ownership, and a bias toward execution.

Nice to have. Exposure to payments, fintech, data products, or platform based business models is a plus, along with familiarity with opportunity evaluation or new business incubation. Experience with data automation, AI enabled workflows, or analytics tooling, and an understanding of data privacy, compliance, and security considerations, are beneficial.

All About You You are intellectually curious, structured, and motivated by building something new. You enjoy digging into problems, synthesizing insights, and helping senior leaders move from ideas to decisions. You are comfortable operating behind the scenes, enabling scale, rigor, and momentum—and you see this role as a unique vantage point into enterprise growth and transformation.

Corporate Security Responsibility Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must adhere to all applicable policies, practices, and training requirements.

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.