Principal Project Manager

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

Principal Project Manager

The Strategy, Enablement & Transformation team is composed of strong contributors with strong project management skills, leadership abilities, and consulting mindset.
The group acts as an internal consultant supporting the Global Business Solutions (GBS) organization, which today supports three primary departments: Finance, People and Capability and Law, Franchise, and Integrity.
The primary responsibility is to successfully execute projects within the GBS and stakeholder groups. The qualified candidate will be a member of a highly visible team working closely with operations and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop appropriate planning and execute on projects.
This position requires a highly collaborative individual with strong process and project management skills who will need to coordinate global relationships across multiple functional areas, third party providers and regional constituencies.

Role:
• Planning, developing, and executing project schedules to ensure timely completion of deadlines and milestones.
• Provide insights to enhance processes and tools, support implementation best practices and process improvements derived from identifying areas of weakness and strategizing improvements.
• Develop, run, and distribute status and progress reports to update leadership and project team members.
• Regularly communicates to senior management regarding the status of specific project deliverables.
• Perform analysis and assessment activities to provide stakeholders with timely updates.

All About You:
• Experience in leading large-scale, cross functional projects.
• Project and/or Program Management experience, with a good understanding of a typical lifecycle
• Experience evaluating business processes and providing advice on ways to effectively streamline business processes and efficiencies (i.e., Lean Six Sigma)
• Expert presenter using data and visuals to tell project status and stories to various audiences, up to executives.
• Excellent communication (written, oral and presentation) and people skills.
• Experience with project risk management and investigation, consulting and strategic judgement, and business process assessment.
• Experience in analysis of operational data to support business decisions and proven process management experience - inclusive of process design and system optimization.
• Professional services or consulting experience a plus.

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 View email address on click.appcast.io 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: $143,000 - $236,000 USD