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Director, Specialist Sales, Consumer Issuing at MasterCard
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Nairobi 🇰🇪 Kenya
Posted 6 days ago (14 Oct 2026) Updated 5 days ago
Job Description
The director will lead the Consumer Issuing sales team, driving growth of Mastercard’s consumer card portfolio through new product sales, portfolio optimization, and strategic client partnerships. Responsibilities include pipeline management, value‑proposition development, and cross‑functional collaboration.
Qualifications & Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or a related field
- MBA or postgraduate diploma preferred
- • Extensive experience in consumer cards, payments, product management, and sales
- • Proven track record in portfolio optimization and revenue growth
- • Strong strategic planning, commercial orientation, and consultative selling skills
- • Ability to develop compelling value propositions and business cases for diverse client segments
Required Skills
Responsibilities
- • Drive sustainable growth of the consumer card portfolio across credit, debit, prepaid, and premium products
- • Identify and convert new business opportunities, building a robust sales pipeline
- • Develop and present differentiated customer value propositions to issuing clients
- • Lead product launches and commercialization of innovative card solutions
- • Optimize portfolio performance using data insights and profitability analysis
- • Collaborate with product, marketing, digital, loyalty, and services teams to deliver integrated solutions
- • Manage relationships with existing issuing clients to expand usage and retention
- • Monitor market trends, competitive offerings, and emerging payment technologies