Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation
Overview :
Associate Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation
Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.
Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.
The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations :
Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations.
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact
* Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements.
* Contribute to and / or develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value.
* Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner.
* Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations.
* Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project delivery consultants to identify effective analysis structures to address client problems, synthesize analyses into relevant findings, and create impactful storylines.
* Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management.
* Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development.
* Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants.
Qualifications
* Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management.
* Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders.
* Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis.
* Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
* Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
* Ability to communicate effectively in English, the local office language (if applicable) and ideally one additional European Language (e.G. Spanish, French, German or Italian).
* Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.
Preferred qualifications
* Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties.
* Experience coaching junior delivery consultants.
* Relevant industry expertise.
* MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required).
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