Director, Africa Division Lead – Security Solutions

About the role

Mastercard's Security Solutions Organization (SSO) in Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (EEMEA) protects and grows the payments ecosystem through fraud, cyber, identity, disputes and compliance solutions, and sits within the Mastercard Services organization. The Division Lead is accountable for the Security Solutions divisional P&L, leading cross-functional teams that generate revenue. The role reports into the EEMEA Security Solutions product organisation and is a member of the SSO leadership team, acting as the single point of accountability for performance, plans, escalations, client commitments and investment requests.

Key responsibilities

• Own the divisional P&L and strategy: revenue plan, budget landing and multi-year growth targets across network and sellable revenue.
• Build trusted relationships with division leadership, product, sales and synergy teams, and serve as the accountable owner of the division.
• Build and execute the divisional plan with key stakeholders, turning regional product strategy into market-specific execution and accelerating time-to-revenue.
• Share market intelligence with regional product and commercialization teams to shape roadmap, pricing and go-to-market.
• Represent SSO externally in vendor relationships and as the voice of the customer, and represent the division in regional business reviews, QBRs and budget cycles with a data-backed narrative.

Required profile

• Proven P&L or commercial ownership at scale, ideally in payments, security or enterprise technology.
• Credibility with senior client stakeholders and internal sales leadership, able to lead cross-functional teams without direct reporting lines.
• Deep market knowledge of the division, including regulatory and competitive dynamics.
• Comfort operating in matrixed, fast-moving environments with a bias to execution.

Required skills

• Strong commercial and analytical judgement: pricing, revenue drivers, penetration and forecasting.
• Ability to own a divisional P&L and drive revenue growth.