
Director, Specialist Sales (Northern Europe)
- Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Vast
- Voltijds
The Mastercard Move Northern Europe team is looking for a Director, Specialist Sales focusing on driving long-term and short-term strategic initiatives in commercializing Mastercard Move across Northern Europe.
The role oversees go-to-market strategy, driving business development/sales (including salesforce training), crafting compelling value propositions and management of the regional P&L, while maintaining a constant alignment with the regional product team and other global NPP teams to guarantee product’s evolutions in line with European markets’ needs.
You would also lead a high performing team of Specialist Sales Managers.Responsibilities:
- Manage and lead a team across Northern Europe cluster. Develop and drive a sales & execution culture.
- Manages several products and solutions for a market/cluster and provides knowledge of products, services or platform capabilities to support localization and market enablement.
- Partners with other solutions experts to support CSC value proposition development, with a focus on their local market and/or segment.
- Serves as a go-to expert and supports the development of differentiated products and solutions to meet the needs of Mastercard's clients, within their market and/or segment.
- Models functional knowledge and best practice sharing and provides thought leadership on technology trends and holistic-system thinking to improve solutioning for their clients.
- Identifies complex issues related to products and solutions development for their market and/or segment and recommends improvements to the market's portfolio or solutions strategy.
- Supports initiatives to drive product revenues from their specific group, within their defined market and/or segment.
- Drives competitive analysis and pricing strategy for Mastercard's solutions, and shares findings/analysis with regional product teams.
- Identifies local partners to drive joint initiatives
- Proven experience in leading and developing high-performing teams, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and drive results through effective people management and strategic direction.
- Experience executing business development across different payment types, technologies and customer segments
- Experience executing strategies into clear action plans in multiple markets
- Successful track record managing P&L and sales objectives for multiple markets. Sales & results driven individual with an execution focus
- Knowledge of Cross Border transactions (Transaction Banking), market economics and dynamics of FX rates is a plus
- Consulting background is a plus, as is consultative selling.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification. Advanced degree or MBA preferred
- Professional-level English language capability and preferably one other European language (e.g Dutch, Swedish)
- Strong presence & communication skills
- Proven team player with ability to work with all levels in a highly intellectual, collaborative, and fast-paced environment