Managing Consultant, Services Business Development

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
Managing Consultant, Services Business Development
Overview-We are pursuing highly motivated individuals with experience in consultative sales across data products, platforms, and / or other analytic services. Individuals should display strong achievement orientation, intellectual curiosity, openness, resilience, diligence, and the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas in simple ways. As a Managing Consultant, you will be at the frontline of generating excitement and demand for our unique solutions and forming successful lasting partnerships across a diverse customer base including financial institutions, fintechs, acquirers and retailers.
Role-
• Responsible for business development and gradually taking on account ownership for Services within several clients in Azerbaijan with direct revenue, account ownership and sales responsibilities.• Support and take ownership of the sales process, from prospecting to executing commercial contracts, ensuring a seamless and efficient sales cycles.• Translate objectives into key hypotheses and structure work for large/complex projects or ill-defined problems• Be capable of developing and maintaining relationships with customers at the most senior levels• Strong communication and influencing skills, should be a compelling presenter to senior client audiences and able to influence large deals • Excellent problem solving and analytics skills and should be able to go head-to-head and influence internal stakeholders and customers alike with fact-based thinking• Partnering with leadership to develop a plan for Services to support their strategic imperatives• Partnering closely with Advisors & Consulting Services and Finance teams to drive and actively track delivery and revenue• Facilitating the implementation of strategies and action plans which, in turn, will act as a link between customer needs and Mastercard resources• Partnering closely with all product teams to ensure customer needs and product innovations align with development road maps
All About You• Strong commercial drive with ability to build and monetize senior client relationships based on thought leadership, empathy, and subject matter expertise• Preferably strong consulting and / or data driven solution selling background• Strong networker across relevant stakeholder base with the ability to listen, build common ground and influence to effectively advance business opportunities and generate revenues• Proven track record of progressively complex sales and strategic account management experience within the financial services sector; payments industry experience is preferred• Demonstrated successful account management experience• Revenue management and P&L experience• Successful conflict resolution experience• Goal-setting abilities, along with strategic planning and succession planning experience• Top-level sales skills (internally and externally) combined with strong negotiation capabilities required for large deals• Deep understanding of the suite of Mastercard Advisors value propositions with a thoughtful approach to executing
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.