Senior Project Manager, Deploy | Card Migration - FTC 20 Months

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 Senior Project Manager, Deploy | Card Migration - FTC 20 Months 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. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.

Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations:
Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Program Management consultants lead clients through business transformations by implementing strategically important Mastercard assets and services to bring value and drive growth. They serve as the Center of Engagement across all stakeholders within Mastercard and the client’s organization. Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings.

Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience:  

Roles and Responsibilities This is a hands-on fixed term role based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to program manage a large card migration program with one of Mastercard's key clients.

The role sits within a large, complex transformation initiative and is focused on delivering clear, timely and compliant migration of client's scheme cards to Mastercard. The role will work closely with cross functional program teams and delivery partners to ensure customer expectations are effectively managed and all teams are prepared for the migration. Past-experience of planning and delivering large scale change projects in developing markets would be prioritised.

Key Responsibilities
• Develop and execute a comprehensive Project plan aligned to program milestones, risk controls and customer outcomes.
• Project KPI and milestones tracking
• Program governance & executive rhythm:
Establish and run working groups, RAID (risks/actions/issues/decisions), and decision logs; surface trade-offs and recommendations for timely executive decisions
• Collaborate across work streams to ensure end-to-end project delivery.
• Act as the day-to-day Project Manager embedded within the client’s organisation, working closely with client stakeholders to integrate seamlessly with internal processes, decision-making forums, and delivery teams.
• Work closely with the Mastercard delivery team to ensure strong alignment through the key delivery milestones.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple teams including Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Marketing, Customer Care, and external partners, ensuring interdependencies are clearly understood and actively managed.
• Serve as the central point of contact for migration-related activities, providing clear, regular, and structured communication to senior stakeholders on progress, risks, issues, and decisions required.
• Proactively identify, assess, and manage delivery risks and issues associated with scheme migration, including customer impact, operational readiness, regulatory considerations, and cutover execution.
• Oversee migration readiness activities, including data validation, operational preparedness, and end-to-end rehearsals.…