MasterCard

Manager, Sales Incentives Strategy & ICM

MasterCard$129K — $206K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8–10+ years in sales incentive management within complex enterprise settings (e.g. SAP SuccessFactors, Anaplan, Varicent)
  • Expertise in Sales Performance Management, particularly ICM and territory/quota processes
  • Strong analytical skills for evaluating sales incentives design and calculation methodologies
  • In-depth understanding of compensation operations, governance, and controls
  • Experience in cross-functional program leadership with global stakeholders
  • Proven success in roadmap prioritization and operating model development
  • Solid knowledge of data architecture, integrations, and reporting patterns

Responsibilities

  • Support alignment of sales incentives strategy with operational execution
  • Administer SAP ICM operations including system configuration and performance reporting
  • Execute ICM plan design and coordinate with key departments for successful implementation
  • Manage data integration for Territory & Quota systems aligning with compensation plans
  • Implement incident management and change control for ICM operations
  • Maintain configuration integrity and documentation for all integrations
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and establish governance for incentive cycles

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options including medical, dental, and vision
  • Generous paid leave policies including new parent and bereavement leave
  • Substantial vacation time and paid holidays
  • 401k plan with a competitive company match
  • Tuition reimbursement and professional development support
  • Fitness reimbursements or access to on-site fitness facilities
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
Full Job Description
Manager, Sales Incentives Strategy & ICM Overview The Manager, Sales Incentives Strategy & ICM will report to the Director, Strategy & ICM and will support the alignment of our Sales Incentives Strategy to operational excellence in deploying the SAP SuccessFactors Incentive Management for the Global Sales Incentives Program. The Manager will support: • The strategic direction, operational efficiency, and roadmap to deploy operations of the company's sales compensation, commissions, and variable pay programs. • SAP ICM Operations: End-to-end administration, including system and sales plan configuration, data interface integration, and commission performance reporting capabilities to ensure accuracy and efficiency. • The operating model for plan deployment across: intake, prioritization, backlog management, governance, and release cadence. Ensure proper use of development, test and production environments. • ICM plan design enablement, configuration, testing, and go-live execution in partnership with Compensation/Total Rewards, Sales Ops, and Finance; specifically the annual sales incentive and sales awards program configuration. • Support Territory & Quota system and data integration, versioning, approvals, and downstream alignment with compensation plans and reporting. • Configuration for repeatable plan constructs across the generalist / specialist sales compensation overlay design including: pay-curve configuration, crediting rules across territory and ICM, analyze and question availability of data and alignment to selling roles in partnership with sales comp design. • Data interfaces with potential acquisitions to support transition of sales incentive programs. • ICM operations: incident management, problem management, change/release management, and performance SLAs. • Controls for pay-impacting processes (ICM): auditability, validation, reconciliation, approvals, and segregation of duties. • Maintain configuration integrity, documentation, and knowledge management across modules and integrations. • Ensure compliance with applicable policies and regulations (privacy, security, SOX where relevant), including access controls, role-based permissions, and audit readiness. • Establish governance for compensation and quota cycles (calendar, cutoffs, signoffs, exception handling, and post-cycle retrospectives). • Partner with appropriate stakeholders to ensure reliable interfaces across Workday, payroll, Oracle and Hyperion Financials, Salesforce, data lake/warehouse, and reporting tools. All About You • 8–10+ years leading sales incentive management, territory and quota applications in a complex enterprise environment (SAP SuccessFactors, Anaplan, Varicent, etc.) • Proven delivery in operating Sales Performance Management capabilities, specifically ICM (incentive compensation) and territory/quota processes. • Ability to analyze data availability for sales incentives plan design and risks in plan design and/or calculation methodology (e.g. split-crediting, generalist / specialist crediting, cut-in and acceleration methodologies). • Strong understanding of compensation operations, governance, and controls for pay-impacting systems and calculations. • Experience leading cross-functional programs with P&C, Sales Excellence, Finance, and IT, including global stakeholder management. • Demonstrated capability in roadmap prioritization, and product/service operating models. • Solid grasp of integrations, data architecture concepts, identity/access controls, and reporting/analytics patterns. • Proven success drawing insights from data and reflecting them into solutions and strategies. 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. Pay Ranges Purchase, New York: $129,000 - $206,000 USD

About MasterCard

Transactis transforms traditional paper billing and payment processing by enabling businesses of all sizes to replace paper bills, statements, invoices, payments and documents with more efficient digital alternatives. Transactis goes to market exclusively with resellers—financial institutions, technology companies, printers and business process outsourcers—to provide their customers with secure, configurable, white-label, industry-leading SaaS solutions. More than a technology provider to resellers, Transactis is a full-service business partner, delivering a broad and deep suite of sales, marketing, technical and operational support, empowering resellers to more successfully serve their clients. Transactis meets the strictest regulatory and compliance requirements including HIPAA, SSAE 16, PCI Level 1, and SOC 2. Transactis’ investors include ff Venture Capital, MacAndrews & Forbes, Metamorphic Ventures, Safeguard Scientifics, StarVest Partners, Capital One, Fifth Third Bank, PNC, TD Bank and Wells Fargo.

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24,000 employees
Market Cap
$330.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1966
5 Year Trend
+11.9%
Revenue
$15.3 billion
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