Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC)

mastercard· Portugal: MASTERCARD PORTUGAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA
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📍 Dublin, Ireland📍 Lisbon, PortugalFull time

About this role

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

Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC)

Overview
The Talent Acquisition team is looking for a Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition on a 12 month fixed term contract to support our Core Payments, Commercial New Payment Flows and International Marketing Communications organisations with a primary focus on sales and product recruitment across Europe. You would be responsible for managing the end to end hiring process for our candidates, sourcing great talent for our teams and proactively delivering a high-quality experience for both candidates and hiring managers alike.

The ideal candidate is passionate about the candidate and hiring manager experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, loves engaging and sourcing new talent, and possesses an organised mindset (with the ability to navigate complex matrix environments).

All About the Role
• Managing requisitions across three business units with a focus on but not limited to product and sales.
• Serves as the point of contact for internal and external candidates, initial hires, business groups and divisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to tailor strategies to attract the best talent in the external market.
• Collaborating with hiring managers to create job ads for current openings.
• Advertising job openings on careers pages, job boards and social networks such as LinkedIn.
• Conducts initial screening of identified passive external candidates.
• Pipeline talent in CRM for future roles.
• Responsible for upholding designated TA processes and systems.
• Monitors sourcing effectiveness through key performance indicators to identify improvements to sourcing strategies (direct source hires, time-to-fill, candidate pipeline quality, applicant tracking system functionality and data integrity).
• Supporting and managing key strategic TA projects to drive operational excellence.

All About You
• Agency or in house recruitment background.
• A strong communicator and influencer.
• An agile mind with the ability to absorb and interpret technical and business information.
• A ‘can-do’ and ‘will-do’ attitude. The ability to build cross-functional relationships and to collaborate with different teams.
• A commercial focused mind-set.
• End to end ownership of full 360 recruitment for agreed roles.
• Tenacity (use to working to TA SLA’s on time to hire etc.)
• Commercial awareness (understand the impact that TA has on the wider business).
• Reporting on data to present to key stakeholders.

Desirable:
• Working in or with matrix organisations to COE model.
• Recruiting for sales or product positions.
• Experience using Workday as an ATS.

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.




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This Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) role at mastercard is based in Dublin, Ireland, Lisbon, Portugal. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) role at mastercard full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a Full time position. It is posted as a Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) role in the Portugal: MASTERCARD PORTUGAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA department at mastercard.
Which team or department does the Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) at mastercard belong to?
This Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) position is part of the Portugal: MASTERCARD PORTUGAL, UNIPESSOAL LDA department at mastercard. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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When was the Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) job at mastercard posted?
This Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC) position at mastercard was posted on Sep 21, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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