# Project Management Senior Specialist

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Besiktas, Istanbul
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Project Management Senior Specialist to support the delivery of technical projects and client implementations across the region.

The successful candidate will act as a bridge between clients, banks, vendors, regional teams, and global stakeholders, ensuring timely and successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage multiple technical and client-facing projects from initiation through implementation and post-launch support.

- Gather, analyze, and document business and technical requirements.

- Understand client needs and translate them into effective product and implementation solutions.

- Review and interpret technical specifications, API documentation, implementation guides, and operating procedures.

- Support clients and banking partners throughout the implementation lifecycle and assist in resolving technical and operational issues.

- Coordinate project activities across internal teams, vendors, and external stakeholders.

- Monitor project milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, ensuring timely escalation when required.

- Facilitate project meetings, status updates, and stakeholder communications.

- Work closely with regional and global colleagues to align project execution with organizational standards and strategic objectives.

- Support testing, certification, operational readiness, and go-live activities.

- Contribute to process improvements and implementation best practices.

Qualifications Required:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

- 4+ years of experience in project management, implementation management, business analysis, or a similar client-facing role.

- Experience managing technical projects involving APIs, system integrations, or payment-related solutions.

- Ability to understand and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

- Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).

Preferred:

- Experience within payments, banking, fintech, card products, loyalty, digital platforms, or related industries.

- Professional proficiency in Russian.

- Experience working in multinational and cross-functional environments.

- Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent) is a plus.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- business analysis
- client-facing
- technical specifications
- API documentation
- implementation guides
- operating procedures
- English
- Russian

### Nice to have
- payments
- banking
- fintech
- card products
- loyalty
- digital platforms
- Project Management certification

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