Cybersecurity Senior Managing Consultant, Strategy

**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**

Cybersecurity Senior Managing Consultant, Strategy & Transformation - Advisors

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. Mastercard Advisors works with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

In this role you will lead delivery of multiple client engagements across direct and network distribution channels, industries and types of projects, such as cybersecurity risk management, cyber crisis management, breach and attack simulations and cyber threat intelligence. You will independently structure engagements to address client problems and support sales teams. You will lead and be a key resource to others to identify creative and useful analyses to address client cyber problems, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations and share findings through impactful storylines and deliverables.

In leading the problem-solving process to drive high-value decisions, you will mentor and coach junior teammates and contribute to Mastercard’s knowledge management and best practices. At Mastercard, you are expected to not only have a tremendous impact in transforming our clients, but also have a leading role in shaping the future of the cybersecurity services.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversight and delivery of client projects and solutions for assessing risk exposure, protecting against attacks, and orchestrating continual improvements of cybersecurity.
- Assist with sales and product management activities such as technical pre-sales support and creation of products bundles.
- Led definition and development of deliverables to solve client problems, address and communicate difficult client situations and produce actionable recommendations.
- Create positive team environment and support collaboration across multiple teams to produce outstanding deliverables.
- Identify opportunities to leverage cybersecurity and other services capabilities, including identification of cross-sell opportunities.
- Manage and collaborate with other assigned resources on engagements to drive results, including engaging internal stakeholders from business development and client account management.
- End-to-end project management including project planning, documentation, scheduling, finances, implementation and measurement.
- Manage third-parties, internal and external stakeholders.
- Serve as a trusted client business advisor and own senior client relationships from mid-level to C-suite.
- Ensure flawless delivery of cybersecurity services projects and solutions while maintaining the highest standards of quality in our customer relationships.
- Identify, track and mitigate risks and issues identified throughout the delivery of initiatives.
- Ensure completion of projects in an efficient and cost-effective manner in line with deadlines and required structures.
- Contribute to evolving our products supporting the Global, Regional and Local product strategy.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years experience with cybersecurity advisory services in a consulting organization (Senior Manager or higher level) with team management responsibility in cybersecurity projects.
- Experience in assessing and building cybersecurity programs and solutions that balance protection and business needs.
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to from cybersecurity data-driven solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with both mid
- and executive-level clients
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with detailed tactical execution skills to drive overall client impact and ability to make quick decisions in challenging, ambiguous situations.
- Industry savvy, understanding emerging cyber trends and using market opportunities.
- Experience in a matrix organization structure, managing and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders effectively.
- Meticulous with excellent coordination and project managemen