Manager, Business Integration - Project Management, M&A Center of Excellence

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

Manager, Business IntegrationManager, Project Management
M&A Center of Excellence

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
We are seeking a Project Manager to join the Mergers & Acquisitions Center of Excellence (M&A COE) and support the Global Business Services Center Legal, Franchise & Integrity (GBSC LFI) function. This role will manage assigned projects across the end-to-end integration lifecycle, coordinate cross-functional delivery, provide clear reporting to project and functional leadership, and represent GBSC LFI as part of the legal workstream. The successful candidate will be a highly organized and collaborative project manager who can bring structure, visibility, and discipline follow-through to complex integration activities.
Role
• Manage assigned projects from initiation through transition and closeout, developing clear scope, workplans, milestones, deliverables, and success measures.
• Coordinate day-to-day execution across legal, business, technology, finance, operations, and other integration workstreams to keep activities aligned and on schedule.
• Represent GBSC LFI within the legal workstream, ensuring that its capabilities, requirements, dependencies, and delivery commitments are incorporated into integration plans and decisions.
• Champion the adoption of AI and automation to streamline project management processes, improve efficiency, and enhance delivery.
• Maintain project plans, action logs, decision logs, risk and issue registers, dependency tracking, and supporting project documentation.
• Gather, validate, and consolidate updates from cross-functional owners; prepare concise status reporting for project leadership, functional leaders, governance forums, and steering committees.
• Facilitate project meetings, document decisions and action items, confirm ownership and timing, and follow through to closure.
• Identify and escalate risks, issues, resource constraints, and cross-workstream dependencies, with clear impact assessments and recommended next steps.
• Support leadership with materials that translate detailed project activity into clear progress, decisions required, delivery risks, and upcoming milestones.
• Promote consistent M&A COE project-management standards, templates, governance routines, and lessons learned across integrations.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, strengthen controls, improve reporting, and enhance collaboration across the legal workstream.

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should have:
• Experience supporting or managing projects in a cross-functional, matrixed environment; exposure to M&A, integration, legal operations, shared services, or transformation initiatives is preferred.
• Working knowledge of core project-management practices, including planning, milestone tracking, risk and issue management, dependency management, governance, and status reporting.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, owners, and deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise, leadership-ready updates and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to build collaborative relationships, influence without formal authority, and follow up constructively to drive accountability.
• Sound judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify delivery risks, organize ambiguous information, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams; experience with project-management platforms such as Monday.com is preferred.
• A proactive, service-oriented mindset and willingness to learn M&A integration, legal workstream, and GBSC LFI processes.
• Experience supporting the delivery of automation initiatives using platforms such as Microsoft Power Automate is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; a project-management certification or relevant training is a plus.
RF#396Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 01/12/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.



Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $119,000 - $190,000 USD