Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy in Waterloo, Belgium

Our Purpose

We work 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, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Policy

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, or 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

The Senior Vice President, Public Policy for Europe will lead Mastercard’s public policy advocacy efforts and will be responsible for delivering the government relations and regulatory affairs disciplines, acting as point person for relationships with Mastercard’s legislative and regulatory audiences and for building other third party allies.

The role will focus on developing how Mastercard’s interests and reputation can be advanced through engagement with Government, consumer and business groups as well as other influencers in each priority market of the Europe region.

The successful candidate will develop thought-leadership programs as well as having direct responsibility for issue management, advocacy, social responsibility and public policy.

Role

• Lead the policy function in an effort to establish Mastercard as a recognized expert and resource in the payments industry, while delivering a measurable positive impact for Mastercard in achieving its overall corporate objectives and goals

• Develop and implement creative strategies to effectively identify and influence the passage or defeat of legislation impacting the corporation, as well as the associated regulatory environment in addition to supporting and coordinating major corporate customer groups in these same areas

• Drive the development of corporate positions on pending legislation and regulation and hold tactical responsibility for drafting relevant responses

• Anticipate significant domestic and regional political trends while developing and modifying strategies to manage these trends

• Establish and maintain key relationships with opinion formers and influencers across the government (legislative and executive), business, consumers and customer segments

• Direct and coordinate all of the company’s political activities across the region and provide leadership and input to senior management in reviewing and analyzing policies affecting the company while serving as a member of the larger public policy team.

• Assist Mastercard’s other public policy and regulatory functions and business units, as appropriate

• Provide executive management with guidance and analysis to enable fully informed policy decisions

• Actively foster the establishment and participation in multi-industry coalitions that protect the corporate brand while delivering policy results for the company, major customer groups and other parties as necessary

• Oversee lobbying activities and manage lobbying consultants and provide lobbying assignments, manage budgets, registration, lobbying laws, ethics laws, and performance management of contract lobbyists and consultants

• Serve as the lead company representative with key trade associations, coalitions and industry peers across the EU region

• Supervises regional Public Policy team, conducts goal-setting and performance appraisal, coaches and develops employees as an organizational resource

All About You

• Educated to degree level (a law degree would be considered an advantage), with management experience in similar Public Policy/Government Relations roles in a major multinational business or agency or high profile association and with strong background in dealing with Government and influencers.

• Significant policy experience, preferably including policy experience in technology or financial services issues

• Strong leadership and management skills with particular success building and enhancing credibility for the function with the organization.

• Proven experience and comfort with Executive level policy interactions

• A team player who will work well with senior business and functional leaders. Must be able to work independently and also constructively as a collaborative team-player. High-energy, self-motivated, results-driven and politically savvy

• Maturity, tact and judgment, strong negotiation skills

• Must possess strong analytical approach to problem solving, ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems, able to deal with short deadlines and work productively in high pressure situations in dynamic commercial and policy environments.

Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.