Vice President, Enterprise Operations

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 Vice President, Enterprise Operations

Job Overview This position provides senior leadership to large, diverse, technology centers supporting MasterCard Business Partners processing needs, internal and external customer requirements and may represent MasterCard Worldwide to the local, city or county governments as well as other business partners or organizations. Financial, organizational and policy responsibilities are included within this position.

Major Accountabilities

• Responsible for provision of 24 by 7 by 365 processing, data, and network availability across multi-platform data center environments.
• Ensure approved staffing levels are maintained, departmental and staff education, training and cross training needs are met.
• Ensure that staff has skills and behaviors to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and, as necessary, improvement plans.
• Review, approve and implement policy changes with minimal customer or staff interruption.
• Review, approve and ensure the implementation of new or revised operational processes and procedures and provide strategic direction for the organization.
• Ensure technical platform or center wide disaster recovery processes and procedures are in place and viable.
• Provide appropriate resources and budget to deliver timely, effective, efficient and predictable processing services and continuing improvement of performance while managing multi-million dollar annual cost center budgets and appropriate expenditures within the approved budgets.
• Respond to operational and business concerns or issues relative to future business programs, projects, or enhancements to ensure consistent delivery of quality services.

All About You

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Master’s degree preferred)
• Minimum of 8 plus years of experience including management responsibilities within a large Network Operations environment.
• Extensive professional knowledge of complex Network Operations, networking and environmental operational techniques coupled with in-depth knowledge in infrastructure technologies.
• Extensive experience with managing a 24X7 shift environment of IT technical and operational staff, as well as managing relationships and performance of contract resources and service provider teams and the ability to integrate these resources into the overall MasterCard team environment is essential.
• Proven ability to lead large complex projects and the ability to work effectively with all areas within Global Technology Operations, Corporate Groups and outside solution providers.
• Proven verbal and written communications skills are a requirement for this role and experience with the following deliverables is critical: requirements documents, design documents, project financials

Skills/ Abilities

• Management and communication skills to direct senior technical individual contributor and multi-discipline management staffs and to interact across multiple organizational levels of internal and external customer groups.
• Ability to foster open communications across all internal or external organizational levels.
• Ability to provide organizational direction and sound judgment to motivate direct and indirect reports to deliver superior results and assure appropriate business outcomes of large or complex projects.
• Ability to approve and implement policy and provides strategic direction for the organization is essential.

Work Conditions

• 24 by 7 by 365 data center environment with staff shift work

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.

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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges O'Fallon, Missouri: $176,000 - $294,000 USD