# Director - Network Management

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Karachi, Pakistan
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Director - Network Management to drive the growth, optimization, and commercialization of the receiving network across Pakistan.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in expanding cross-border remittance capabilities across account deposit, wallet payouts, and push-to-card solutions while identifying opportunities to improve network performance, increase transaction volumes, and enhance partner economics.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Develop and execute regional network commercialization strategies to drive growth across key remittance corridors.

- Identify, evaluate, negotiate, and onboard new Receiving Service Providers (RSPs), banks, fintechs, wallet providers, and payment institutions.

- Expand payout coverage across bank account deposit, mobile wallet, and push-to-card capabilities.

- Build and manage a robust pipeline of network expansion opportunities within assigned markets.

- Drive activation and utilization of new network capabilities to increase transaction volumes and revenue.

**Partner Relationship Management**

- Own strategic relationships with existing RSPs and key network partners.

- Conduct regular business reviews with partners to assess performance, identify growth opportunities, and address operational challenges.

- Negotiate commercial agreements, pricing structures, and service-level commitments with partners.

**Push-to-Card & Bank Enablement**

- Work closely with banks, issuers, and payment partners to activate TC28 and other relevant capabilities supporting push-to-card services.

- Drive expansion of card-based payout solutions across target markets.

**Network Optimization & Efficiency**

- Partner with RSPs to improve operational efficiency, transaction success rates, payout speed, and service quality.

- Analyze network performance and identify opportunities to reduce cancellations, rejections, and customer complaints.

**Market & Corridor Development**

- Identify high-growth remittance corridors and develop go-to-market strategies.

- Monitor competitive developments, regulatory changes, and industry trends impacting cross-border payments.

**Internal Collaboration**

- Partner with Product teams to define network requirements and future capabilities.

- Work with Compliance and Risk teams to ensure network partners meet regulatory and risk standards.

**Qualifications & Experience**

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Banking, or a related field.

- 5–10 years of experience within payments, banking, fintech, remittances, card networks, or financial services.

- Proven experience managing commercial relationships with banks, payment institutions, money transfer operators, fintechs, or RSPs.

**Skills & Competencies**

- Strong commercial negotiation and relationship management skills.

- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.

- Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities.

- Ability to operate independently and manage multiple strategic initiatives.

## Skills

### Required
- cross-border payments
- remittance
- payment networks
- commercial negotiation
- relationship management

### Nice to have
- push-to-card services
- card-based payout solutions
- correspondent banking models
- international payment rails

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