Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation
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
Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & TransformationOverviewOur Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
Consultant, Advisors Client Services, Data & Services
Mastercard Data & Services provides cutting-edge data analysis and services to Fortune 500s, governments, and nonprofits to make multimillion-dollar business decisions and grow their organizations. Our Advisors Client Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets and in-house technologies to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Mastercard Advisors work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and finance.
The Advisors Client Services group has five specializations: Performance Analytics, Strategy & Transformation, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Project Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead customers through decision making, tackling strategic, operational, and transformational challenges across diverse topics including product, business drivers, loyalty, innovation, and more. You will apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve clients’ overall strategy, performance, and operations.
Positions for these different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please apply to the position that is best suited to your background and experience.
If you want additional information regarding the different career levels and specializations within Advisors, visit Advisors Client Services Specializations webpage.
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact
Lead client engagements across a range of industries and problem statements
Develop strategies and programs for large, regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value
Own key relationships with mid-level to senior client stakeholders and independently assess client agenda, internal culture, and change readiness
Team Collaboration & Culture
Lead team to creative insights and sound business recommendations, and deliver impactful client presentations while growing team members’ roles and skills
Provide analytical and day-to-day project delivery team leadership, and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all levels
Collaborate with internal Mastercard stakeholders including Product and Business Development to scope projects, create relevant solutions for clients, and build the firm's intellectual capital
Provide on-the-job training, coaching, and mentorship to junior consultants
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management or product management
Experience coaching and managing teams across multiple consulting engagements that involve structured problem solving and stakeholder management
Experience managing key client relationships
Knowledge of business KPIs, financials and organizational leadership
Able to identify new business development opportunities, and experience drafting proposals and scoping new opportunities
Logical, structured thinking and affinity for numerical analysis
Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
Able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Able to communicate effectively in English and the local office language
Eligible to work in the country where they are applying and for travel visas as required by travel needs
Preferred qualifications
Experience generating new knowledge or creating innovative solutions for a firm
Relevant industry expertise
MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required)
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.