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Title and Summary
Manager, Business Administration
Reporting to the West Arabia Division President, the primary purpose of the role of Manager, Business Administration, West Arabia, is to support the West Arabia Division President and the wider West Arabia Management Team in the effective execution of the overall West Arabia Business Agenda.
Towards the aim of effective execution, the primary role focus areas will comprise 3 main pillars:
1. Providing Support in Establishing an Analytics-based Commercial Mindset.
2. Helping with driving Efficiencies across Key Activities and Processes.
3. Providing Administrative Support as required.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Providing Support in Establishing an Analytics-based Commercial Mindset:
• Together with Country/Cluster teams, West Arabia Finance and West Arabia HR, ensure all SIP (Sales Incentive Plan) Objectives are well thought through, with the aggregation of these plans leading to West Arabia meetings and potentially exceeding delivery of the overall business targets.
• Together with the West Arabia Business Analytics Unit, in-market Sales/Business Support, and West Arabia Finance, create and disseminate detailed portfolio/account level analytics to drive West Arabia sales performance, ensure timely tracking of performance against agreed SIP KPI’s, and execute real time corrective actions.
• Together with West Arabia Marketing, Cluster/Country leads, and West Arabia Finance, implement rigorous processes that drive efficient analytics-based utilization of West Arabia A&M budget, CBA and Syndicated Marketing funds, and ensure effective monitoring and post activity evaluation of each major initiative.
• Together with West Arabia Finance, Account/Country/Cluster leads, and West Arabia Market Development leads, provide support in managing a rigorous monthly/quarterly process of regular performance reviews of key partner CBA’s and strategic merchant agreements to drive best in class financial returns.
• Together with West Arabia Finance, Country/Cluster Leads, and the relevant support functions/verticals, drive cost management excellence, Division-wide cost efficiencies, and recommend/coordinate the execution of specific cost-efficiency initiatives.
• Jointly, with the execution team/s, provide regular performance updates, and appropriate escalations, when necessary, to enable the company to take timely corrective action and remove execution obstacles.
2. Helping with driving Efficiencies across Key Activities and Processes.
• Support in the coordination and management of the different West Arabia business forums. These comprise but are not limited to: a) West Arabia Management Team Meeting (MMTM), b) West Arabia Marketing Governance Forums (MMGF), c) West Arabia Deal Pipeline Review (MDPR), d) West Arabia Merchant Review Forum (MMRF), and e) any other forums that are added from time to time.
• Support in the preparation and delivery of post meeting actions across the following forums: a) West Arabia Division Reviews (MDR) with West Arabia DFO, b) West Arabia Leadership Team – jointly with West Arabia Strategy Team, c) West Arabia HR Committee – jointly with West Arabia HR, and d) any other forums that are added from time to time.
• Across all forums, put in place a consolidated action tracker that is regularly monitored, reviewed, and followed up on, to ensure effective delivery by each action owner.
• Together with the West Arabia Head of Sales Excellence, support in the effective implementation of sales processes and disciplines across West Arabia; such as prospecting, wallet sizing, account planning, pipeline management, System of Knowledge (SOK), expert sales elevator pitches, and structured RFP responses for Mastercard assets and solutions, amongst others, to ensure that the West Arabia Sales teams operate with a consistent, structured, and focused approach that delivers strong commercial outcomes.
• Together with West Arabia HR, West Arabia Talent Management, and Country/Cluster Leads, support in driving improvements in sales effectiveness, sales capability and sales process efforts across West Arabia through a rigorous performance evaluation and development plan, and the effective utilization of strong financial and non-financial recognition programs.
• Own the West Arabia Management Information and data, competitive benchmarking reports, ad-hoc requests for analysis, weekly and monthly reporting, and responses to ad-hoc information requests from senior regional and global stakeholders.
• Support in carrying out comprehensive functional process mapping, identifying efficiency related areas of improvement, developing appropriate recommendations, and leading process re-engineering initiatives to drive efficiencies.
• Work closely with Risk & Franchise Development to ensure compliance with the necessary policies and processes covering risk self-assessment, effective and timely escalations, issue aging and closure, business continuity management, etc.
3. Providing Administrative Support as required
• Together with West Arabia Marketing/Comms Cluster/Country leads, West Arabia Finance, support in the preparation, execution, and effective management of an annual West Arabia customer engagement event plan.
• Together with the Account Leads, manage the West Arabia DP external customer engagement plan, in support of the overall business agenda in each market. Ensure quality advance meeting preparation is in place well ahead of each meeting, personalized post meeting communication is done, and subsequent meeting actions are tracked to quality and timely execution.
• Manage and co-ordinate monthly team events and meetings. Organize and co-ordinate any office event arrangements (e.g. Workshops, Conferences, Seminars)
• Serve as administrative liaison to others within and outside the company.
• As required, provide support on a variety of administrative matters such as agenda management, meeting coordination, travel logistics planning, amongst others.
KEY & CORE COMPETENCIES:
• Consulting Skills: Analytical ability that uncovers relevant insights; Knowledge of applicable analytical tools & techniques; Understanding of financial modeling and business process re-engineering; business plan development and business case modeling.
• Communications/Presence: Ability to clearly/credibly articulate own work verbally/in-writing and demonstrate active listening.
• Team Contribution & Engagement Management: Work well with peers, internal customers, and external partners; Proactive collaboration with and support to the functions/verticals, Professional maturity in responding to coaching/performance feedback.
• Internal Stakeholder Management: Establish rapport with Account Leads/Country Managers across West Arabia, and Global functions across wider MCW world.
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE/SKILLS REQUIREMENT:
- Undergraduate degree, MBA - desirable
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work on a team or independently
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Advanced Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook skills
- Attention to detail
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.