# Director – Strategy & Planning

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: London, England (Angel Lane)
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: part-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Director – Strategy & Planning supports the President of UK&I and the Division Leadership Team by translating strategy into clear priorities, strengthening execution discipline and enabling effective decision-making across the division.

Key Responsibilities:

- Strategic Alignment and Execution: Partner with the President and Division Leadership Team to translate strategic priorities into clear plans, actions and measurable outcomes.

- Drive high-priority strategic initiatives and cross-functional projects from conception to delivery, ensuring accountability, timely execution and visible impact.

- Monitor relevant market developments, identifying emerging risks, opportunities and implications for the division.

Leadership Team Operating Rhythm:

- Own and continuously improve the Division Leadership Team’s operating cadence, ensuring meetings are purposeful, action-oriented and tied to business priorities.

- Lead the planning, design and facilitation of Leadership Team meetings, annual planning processes and strategy reviews.

- Track decisions, actions and follow-through to strengthen execution discipline and leadership alignment.

Executive Reporting, Briefings and Communications:

- Own executive-level reporting, business updates, scorecards and leadership communications for internal and external audiences.

- Prepare briefing materials, talking points, meeting objectives and follow-up actions for executive client meetings, strategic customer engagements, industry events and speaking opportunities.

- Develop leadership communication strategies that increase transparency, connectivity and employee understanding of organisational priorities.

Data Strategy:

- Ensure the division has a clear data strategy that equips the Division Leadership Team and broader teams with the data, analytics and insights needed to monitor market trends, understand customer performance and inform strategic decision-making.

- Drive alignment on divisional data priorities, working across relevant teams to strengthen the quality, accessibility and effective use of data and insights.

Commercial Strategy and Pricing:

- Establish and oversee an effective market-level process for managing pricing proposals, working with Account Teams, Product Teams and Customer Economics to ensure proposals are robust, coordinated and progressed efficiently.

- Ensure the customer and Division P&L impacts of pricing proposals are clearly understood and that proposals are aligned with applicable regulatory requirements.

- Drive the UK&I commercial strategy, identifying and enabling opportunities to generate material, sustainable incremental revenue for the division.

People Leadership:

- Provide people leadership for the Pricing & Commercial Strategy Manager and Data Strategy & Analytics Manager, setting clear direction, expectations and priorities.

- Support team effectiveness and development by coaching individuals, strengthening capability and creating clarity on ownership, deliverables and ways of working.

- Ensure the work of your direct reports is well connected to divisional priorities, leadership decision-making and the broader UK&I strategic agenda.

Culture and Ways of Working:

- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement and proactive problem-solving across the division.

- Build strong relationships across senior stakeholders, business partners and cross-functional teams to enable effective alignment and delivery.

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## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- leadership
- communication
- data analysis
- pricing management

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