Senior Vice President, Customer Care, AP

Our PurposeMastercard 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 SummarySenior Vice President, Customer Care, APRole SummaryThe Senior Vice President, Customer Care – is accountable for end to end customer care outcomes for customers within the region. As a senior leader and regional co lead, this role identifies and addresses gaps in customer support controls, drives organizational and operational transformation, and ensures consistent delivery of a superior customer support experience.The role serves as the primary senior customer support liaison for top tier customers, provides escalation leadership for all region wide customer and employee impacting events, and represents the regional customer support perspective to executive leadership. The SVP works in close partnership with Global Operational Excellence, Global Contact Centers, and regional business teams to embed best practices, drive execution discipline, and reinforce strong local alignment.________________________________________Core ResponsibilitiesRegional Customer Care Accountability• Own regional accountability for customer support experience, outcomes, and operational performance• Identify gaps in customer support controls, service models, and operating capabilities within the region• Define and implement controls that ensure consistent, high quality, and resilient customer support delivery• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction, trust, and confidence across regional customers________________________________________Organizational Transformation & Operational Excellence• Lead regional transformation initiatives to close identified customer support gaps across people, process, and technology• Partner with Global Operational Excellence teams to adopt, implement, and sustain enterprise best practices• Standardize and continuously improve regional customer support processes, preparedness, and execution rigor• Strengthen regional readiness for significant incidents, escalations, and crisis scenarios________________________________________Program, Incident, and Escalation Leadership• Serve as the escalation path for all customer and employee impacting events in the region, including regulatory incidents• Enable crisis and incident management, ensuring timely decision making, coordination, and communication• Represent the regional view to the Executive Leadership Team and key enterprise stakeholders• Provide governance, inspection, and follow through to ensure root cause resolution and prevention________________________________________Strategic Customer Engagement & Liaison• Act as the senior customer support liaison for top tier and strategically important customers• Position TECH and Mastercard as trusted technology and customer care advisors• Maintain ongoing executive level relationships to ensure alignment, transparency, and long term partnership________________________________________Global Contact Center & Delivery Synergies• Work closely with Global Contact Center leadership to create operational synergies, scale efficiency, and consistency• Ensure regional requirements and customer nuances are reflected in global delivery and support models• Balance global standardization with local market and customer needs• Drive seamless collaboration between regional care and delivery partners________________________________________Regional & Enterprise Alignment• Embed customer support alignment into regional business, product, and technology forums• Reinforce strong local alignment with regional business leadership to support growth, resilience, and customer outcomes• Ensure regional priorities are synchronized with enterprise strategies and execution plans________________________________________Service Performance & Reporting• Ensure differentiated support models for critical customers while maintaining a streamlined, scalable experience for all customers• Provide regular, structured reporting to regional leadership on: o Incidents (including regulatory)o Customer health and sentimento Service performance and trends• Use insights and data to drive continuous improvement and informed decision making________________________________________Scope & Decision Authority• Regional ownership of customer support experience and escalation governance• Authority to drive organizational change and operational improvements across regional CTS functions• Shared accountability with global teams for enterprise customer care outcomes• Executive influence across regional business, product, technology, and operations leadership________________________________________Experience & Capability Requirements• Senior leadership experience in technology customer support, operations, or enterprise service delivery• Proven success leading large scale operational transformation and control implementation• Strong executive presence with experience engaging C suite customer stakeholders• Deep understanding of incident, crisis, and escalation management at enterprise scale• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, global organizationAll About You• Measurable improvement in regional customer satisfaction and service reliability• Reduction in customer support gaps, incidents, and repeat escalations• Improved operational maturity and preparedness across regional CTS teams• Stronger alignment and execution between regional teams, global contact centers, and enterprise functions• Fluency in English is required; proficiency in one or more APAC local languages (e.g., Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, or similar) is strongly