Senior Managing Counsel

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Senior Managing Counsel

The appointed person will be part of the regional legal team, reporting to the General Counsel for Europe. The appointed person will be responsible for providing legal support to the Europe Region’s Strategy & Business Excellence team with a particular focus on anti-trust law, revenue management and ESG. The appointed person will be expected to make a significant contribution to the successful management of the growth of the business and will partner with internal clients. Mastercard has its Regional Headquarters in Waterloo, Belgium and its Global Headquarters in New York. The position is based in Waterloo, Belgium or London, UK.

Job responsibilities

• Generally responsible for providing legal support to the Europe Region’s Strategy & Business Excellence team with a particular focus on anti-trust law, revenue management and ESG
• Support the business with achieving its commercial and strategic objectives.
• Assist the business teams with managing and mitigating legal and commercial risks.
• Work together with the other members of the Law Department both in Europe and the rest of the world in view of delivering an outstanding service to the business in a spirit of an integrated and streamlined approach which fits both into the local/regional and global strategy.
• Manage external legal counsels in the assigned countries.
• Monitor legislative developments in the assigned countries.
• Work together with and assist other departments as required, both on a local/regional and a global level such as but not limited to Finance, Franchise, Risk Management as well as their assigned functional in-house counsels.
• Conduct local training/monitoring of global policies such as contracts policy training.
• Legal work includes drafting, review and negotiation of a wide variety of commercial contracts with clients and suppliers, as well as ESG laws, consumer protection and marketing rules and regulations, anti-trust laws, etc.
  
  
  

Selection Criteria

Qualifications

• Law degree;
• any additional qualifications including on an international level are an asset.
  
  
  

Essential Knowledge/Experience/Attributes

• Extensive relevant post-qualification experience in general commercial legal matters in a reputable law firm and/or as in-house lawyer, preferably in the financial services, banking or technology sector; Experience in providing legal support to US organizations and experience in IT law and revenue management considered an asset.
• Fluent in English (both orally as in writing); any additional European languages will be considered an asset.
• Must have a strategic mindset and be able to effectively discuss with and advise senior management regarding complex matters or challenging situations
• Must be able to contribute and operate effectively within a diverse multicultural organization.
• The candidate should have a positive “can do“ attitude, be stress resistant and ready to go the extra mile
• The candidate should be a team player who is both organizationally savvy and a strong communicator able to collaborate cross-functionally and across regions
• Thorough, meticulous and attention to detail but nevertheless able to prioritize, focus on the important rather than just urgent matters and get the job done.
• Good commercial judgment and creative approach to problem-solving
  
  
  

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.