Manager, Account Management | Community Institutions

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 Manager, Account Management | Community Institutions Overview Mastercard's Community Institutions team is launching Team Catalyst, an innovative new account management model designed to redefine how we partner with our longer-tail customers. As customer expectations evolve and operational complexity increases, we are transforming from a traditional one-to-one account management structure to a collaborative, team-based model that enables us to deliver deeper expertise, greater consistency, and broader access to Mastercard's capabilities. Team Catalyst is an incubation team focused on building the future of customer partnership and engagement. We are challenging conventional approaches, creating scalable strategies, leveraging data and automation, and finding new ways to bring the full power of Mastercard to our customers. This role offers a unique opportunity to help design, build, and scale a new model while directly influencing customer growth, experience, and operational excellence across a portfolio of Community Institution customers. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy turning ideas into action, and are energized by solving complex problems, we'd love to meet you. The Role As a Manager, Account Management on Team Catalyst, you will help shape and execute the future vision for customer engagement within Mastercard's Community Institutions segment. You will combine strategic thinking, customer relationship management, business development, and operational excellence to drive measurable outcomes for both customers and Mastercard. Working within a highly collaborative team environment, you will identify opportunities, build scalable solutions, drive execution, and continuously refine our approach to customer growth. Key Responsibilities - Innovate: Help evolve Mastercard's next-generation account management model for Community Institutions, identifying new ways to scale customer engagement, drive operational efficiency, and enhance the customer experience. - Strategize: Develop and execute customer engagement strategies that drive growth, improve customer outcomes, and strengthen long-term partnerships. - Advise: Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leaders by understanding their business objectives, strategic priorities, operating challenges, and market opportunities. - Champion: Lead strategic initiatives from concept through execution, partnering across Mastercard to design solutions, align stakeholders, and deliver measurable outcomes for customers and the business. - Collaborate: Partner closely with teams across Product, Services, Technology, Operations, Marketing, and Sales to bring the full breadth of Mastercard capabilities to customers and accelerate adoption of solutions that deliver meaningful business value. - Negotiate: Own the end-to-end deal lifecycle for customer renewals and growth opportunities, including RFP responses, deal modeling, contract negotiations, and stakeholder alignment. - Engage: Design and execute scalable customer engagement strategies through 1:1, 1:few, and 1:many programs, including webinars, office hours, customer education forums, thought leadership campaigns, and portfolio-wide communications. All About You - Builder who enjoys creating new playb