Manager, Business Development - Global Platform Partnerships

Manager, Business Development - Global Platform Partnerships

Mastercard Services Overview

• Identify, qualify, and secure strategic partnership opportunities while building a robust pipeline of platform providers across issuing, acquiring, and merchant-enabler ecosystems.


• Own the full sales cycle from prospecting and discovery through business case development, proposal creation, negotiation, and execution.


• Consistently achieve and exceed annual bookings and revenue targets.


• Develop and execute territory and account plans focused on long-term market expansion.


• Design scalable partnership and commercial models, including reseller, referral, wholesale, embedded, marketplace, and revenue-share structures.


• Evaluate market trends, competitive offerings, and emerging ecosystem opportunities to inform growth initiatives, product strategy, and partnership investments.


• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including C-suite, product, commercial, and partnership leaders.


• Lead strategic discussions on fraud prevention, dispute management, customer experience, payments innovation, and consumer engagement.


• Deliver executive presentations, business reviews, and partnership proposals that advance customer objectives and commercial outcomes.


• Partner cross-functionally to onboard new partners, drive post-contract activation, support go-to-market execution, and monitor launch performance.


• Maintain deep expertise in payments, fraud prevention, chargeback management, Mastercard Services, and emerging industry trends.

• Experience in business development, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, payments, fintech, SaaS, or related industries, with a demonstrated ability to originate and close net new business.


• Proven record of achieving or exceeding revenue and bookings targets, supported by strong pipeline management and forecasting discipline.


• Experience negotiating complex partnership agreements and navigating enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholders.


• Expertise in consultative, value-based selling, with the ability to influence senior leaders internally and externally.


• Ability to identify scalable growth opportunities, build repeatable partnership models, and balance short-term bookings objectives with long-term strategic value.


• Strong commercial acumen, including experience developing revenue-based business cases, financial models, ROI analyses, and growth projections.


• Ability to leverage data to identify opportunities, quantify value, support recommendations, and translate complex insights into clear commercial actions.

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 us.fitly.work 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.

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.