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Position: Managing Consultant, Advisors Program Management (Payments & Program Management Consultant)

Managing Consultant, Advisors Program Management (Payments & Program Management Consultant) 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.

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Managing Consultant, Advisors Program Management (Payments & Program Management Consultant)

Summary

The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing end-to-end services that help our customers grow. We combine traditional management consulting with rich data assets and in-house technology to deliver strategic insights and measurable outcomes. Advisors Program Management (Deploy) focuses on expert execution support-deployment and value realization-from implementation to adoption, usage, and product evolution. Own high-visibility payments programs — design the roadmap, execute delivery, and prove value with data.

This Managing Consultant role blends strategy + execution: shaping issuer/acquirer changes and platform rollouts, shipping activation sprints and merchant initiatives, and landing regulatory/scheme updates with clean controls. You’ll partner cross-functionally (Product, Risk, Operations, Compliance, Tech/Processor, Marketing) to lift activation, digital adoption, spend, balances, retention, and fee income, while maintaining an auditable control environment.

Why this is compelling for top performers

• Direct impact:
  You’ll move the metrics that matter and engage senior stakeholders on outcomes.
• Autonomy with backing:
  Decision space plus access to data, platforms, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to move fast and smart.
• Scale & variety:
  Multi-program mandates across Saudi Arabia/EEMEA, spanning consumer and SME portfolios and omnichannel delivery.

The Role

As a Managing Consultant, Advisors Program Management (Payments & Program Management Consultant) you will have the following responsibilities:

Drive outcomes (not just activities)

• Program strategy & roadmap:
  Co-create multi-workstream plans (card issuance, card acquiring, product launches, ops readiness, analytics, marketing etc) and convert into quarterly objectives and key results with gated KPIs and risk-controlled milestones.
• Payments delivery:
  Lead execution for platform enablement, digital payments adoption, issuer/acquirer change deliveries, authorization/fraud improvements, and regulatory/scheme updates-on time, on budget, in control.
• Lifecycle programs:
  Design and run activation, usage, balance build, retention across CRM, digital, branch/tele, and merchant channels-owning testing, targeting, controls, and in-life optimization.
• Commercials & revenue levers:
  Recommend pricing constructs, fees, and merchant/GTM partnerships to grow program profitability within policy and customer‑experience guardrails.
• Analytics partnership:
  Build decisioning dashboards (activation, digital adoption, spend, attrition, balances) and test‑and‑learn experiments; rapidly operationalize insights.
• Change delivery & controls:
  Run structured delivery (RAID, gating, cutovers) for complex changes; maintain auditable documentation, sign‑offs, and evidence packs for compliance reviews.
• Stakeholder leadership:
  Align Product, Risk, Ops, Compliance, Marketing, Tech/Processor, and vendors; sustain weekly performance cadences and unblock decisions quickly.
• Value realization:
  Set success benchmarks (e.g., early‑life activation, digital adoption, usage, retention) and drive post‑launch optimization sprints to sustain gains.
• Activation & digital adoption:
  Uplift activation and wallet/tokenization/Click‑to‑Pay adoption.
• Spend & balances:
  Achieve measurable growth in monthly spend, balances, and fee income through orchestrated program.
• Retention & experience:
  Reduce churn via proactive playbooks and improve portfolio health metrics.
• Delivery excellence:
  Ma…

Title: Managing Consultant, Advisors Program Management Program Management Consultant

Company: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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