Job description

The Vice President, Business Development, Travel – EEMEA role at Mastercard is a senior, client-facing leadership position within the EEMEA Merchant and Commerce team, responsible for driving transformative growth across the regional travel ecosystem. The role leads Mastercard’s commercial and go-to-market strategy for the travel vertical, covering airlines, hotel groups, online travel agencies, travel management companies, and travel-related technology companies, with the objective of delivering profitable revenue growth, increased spend, enhanced engagement, retention, and long-term market share expansion. The position shapes Mastercard’s relevance in the travel industry through thought leadership, embedded payments, digital innovation, co-brand programs, and strategic enterprise partnerships. The role requires ownership and scaling of revenue portfolios, negotiation and oversight of complex multi-year partnership agreements, identification of new commercial opportunities across the travel value chain, and orchestration of matrixed, cross-functional teams across regions. The Vice President strengthens Mastercard’s brand through executive-level storytelling and C-suite influence, leads and develops high-performing teams with a focus on accountability, inclusion, and growth, and ensures compliance with Mastercard’s corporate security responsibilities, including adherence to information security policies, confidentiality and integrity of data, breach reporting, and completion of mandatory security training.