Manager, Network Economics & Value Optimization

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.

Manager, Network Economics & Value Optimization

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.

Manager, Network Economics & Value Optimization

Manager, Network Economics & Value Optimization

The Network Economics & Value Optimization (NEVO) team plays a critical role in shaping Mastercard's network economics by driving governance, strategic alignment, value optimization, and execution across pricing and interchange initiatives globally. The Team partners with regional teams, product organizations, finance, legal, compliance, and other business functions to ensure economics related decisions support Mastercard's growth strategy while maintaining consistency, transparency, and regulatory readiness.

As Mastercard continues to expand its products, services, and ecosystem, the need for scalable governance frameworks, disciplined execution has never been greater. This role will support the development and management of governance processes, pricing and interchange policies, strategic initiatives, and performance management practices that help optimize value, improve decision making, and strengthen organizational accountability.

This position offers a unique opportunity to influence high impact initiatives across the organization, providing visibility into critical business decisions while partnering with senior stakeholders to enhance governance, operational effectiveness, and commercial outcomes.

• Play a key role in developing & implementing network economics and value optimization strategies, building new tools to inform how we set our pricing and interchange, and conducting analysis as needed on strategic questions & issues.
• In addition, the position serves as the main liaison to regional and services organizations.
• Effectively manage and prioritize execution of portfolio of key transformational initiatives.
• Successfully drive initiatives from ideation to creation, regional syndication, and execution.
• Identify and develop creative solutions, with a strong analytical and fact-based foundation, and lead teams toward its implementation.
• Develop and refine strategies that are consistent with our business objectives cross-regionally
• Leverage and contribute to developing models and frameworks for assessing pricing and interchange through competitive benchmarking vs. traditional and emerging payments providers, comparison vs. alternatives (e.g., cash/check) and the value created and delivered to each part of the four-party system
• Conduct strategic analysis as needed to help evaluate new ideas, benchmark across Master Card’s products and services, and inform decisions on pricing and interchange levels
• Contribute (with rest of team) to the development of global pricing & interchange strategies and roadmap
• Partner and…