Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation

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 Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation Sr Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient (DQ) drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Business Expansion & Transformation (BET) in Business & Market Insights (B&MI). Business Expansion & Transformation is a new team within Business & Market Insights, charged with bridging B&MI’s current growth momentum with its 2030 growth ambition. BET does this by defining the strategic aperture for where the enterprise should source and originate new growth opportunities, identifying and interpreting internal and external signals, and translating those signals into tangible, investable opportunities. BET owns the front end of the growth lifecycle—from opportunity sourcing and origination through evaluation, portfolio construction, and graduation into development. This includes standing up new business verticals—products outside existing portfolios with use cases spanning multiple portfolios—as well as foundational capabilities that strengthen the current portfolio and create pathways to businesses the company could not otherwise build. BET acts as the accountable end to end steward, first building and owning the opportunity pipeline, then coordinating product, technology, and go to market partners to advance initiatives from early concept to scale. The Role. The Senior Specialist, Business Expansion & Transformation plays a critical role supporting the Vice President in building, operating, and scaling BET’s opportunity pipeline sourcing high potential new businesses and transformative technologies. This role is highly executional and exposure rich, sitting at the intersection of strategy, analytics, technology, and stakeholder coordination in a first of its kind team at Mastercard. The individual will operationalize and execute the prioritization, governance, and tooling that underpin BET’s opportunity engine. The individual will also support due diligence workstreams and act as a day to day liaison across internal and external stakeholders. The role is ideal for a high potential professional with strong analytical rigor, structured thinking, and an interest in how new businesses are discovered, validated, and built inside a complex global enterprise. Key Responsibilities • Pipeline Prioritization. Support the operation and evolution of BET’s opportunity prioritization framework by applying consistent evaluation criteria, tracking assumptions and risks, and monitoring pipeline health, stage progression, and portfolio balance across time horizons. • Advanced Automation & Tooling. Partner closely with technology teams to design, pilot, and scale advanced, agentic, and automated approaches to opportunity discovery, signal ingestion, diligence workflows, and portfolio tracking that expand BET’s