Director, Customer Success Africa and East Arabia

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 Director, Customer Success Africa and East Arabia Director, Customer Success Africa and East Arabia Overview Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. To drive more consistency and alignment across Customer Success (CS) in Services, we are standing up new Regional Customer Success teams, which will play a crucial role in ensuring our customers achieve their desired outcomes while maximizing the value of our products and services. As advocates for the customer experience, this team is accountable for a good onboarding experience, providing ongoing strategic support, and fostering long-term relationships. They work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to address customer needs, gather feedback for product improvements, develop tailored strategies that enhance customer satisfaction and retention, build customer advocacy to support our B2B marketing campaigns and create leads for value expansion for our Business Development teams. By focusing on proactive engagement and personalized service, the Services Customer Success team is dedicated to driving customer success and contributing to the overall growth of the organization. Responsibilities The Director of Customer Success role will report to the EEMEA VP Customer Success and will support in the development and delivery of strategic priorities within the region. The candidate will focus on ensuring the priority customers and segments they work with experience positive change through more effective use of Services network products. The Director will work closely with cross functional teams including Network Services, Account Management, Sales, Product, Technical Account Managers and support/delivery teams to realize the full value proposition of Mastercard Network Products on behalf of the customer. The three areas of primary responsibility include: 1) Delivering value to customers and 2) growing the business. Delivering value to customers Cultivate a strong customer partnership through a deep understanding of their business and managing customer health and value realization during network product launch and post-sale Identify optimization opportunities for customers with the goals of driving customer value and enhanced strategic goals through our products Articulate key performance indicators related to cost, performance and optimization and the insights associated with them Growing the Business: Leverage Mastercard Services’ offerings to achieve customer goals and realize value propositions of Mastercard products Identify opportunities for additional Mastercard products to create greater value potential for customers and enhance impact of Network Product offerings Ability to work with highly technical internal solutions and identify information that will inform customer decision-making and enable enhanced visibility into achieving product value realization All About You: Enthusiastic manager of talent who builds, energizes and unlocks the potential of a diverse high performing team, nurtures a winning and inclusive culture, and a focus on development at the individual and team level Advanced experience working with both large and emerging Technology, Financial Services, Acquirers/Processors, Service Providers, and/or digital platform partners Knowledge and understanding of payments technology and application of that knowledge to address customer/market needs Successful track record of identifying “next opportunity” for customers to partner with Mastercard to further enhance the strength and value of the partnership for both parties Successful record in developing and implementing sustainable customer success strategies that align with the organization's goals Extensive experience in analyzing customer metrics and leveraging data to drive customer success initiatives that contribute to mutual profitability and growth Highly skilled at leveraging insights from market analysis, customer engagements, and identified opportunities to inform strategic decisions, drive innovation, and sustain competitive advantage Experience in creative thinking and development of innovative solutions to complex customer challenges Demonstrated experience building and maintaining relationships with the ability to create followership by generating value with key stakeholders across the organization Advanced ability to translate complex technical capabilities into effective solutions that address customer needs in a clear and customer-centric manner Must speak fluent English, additional languages like French and Arabic welcome 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.