Associate Managing Consultant

Title and Summary

Associate Managing Consultant/Associate Managing Consultant Business Experimentation

Advisors & Consulting Services

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 Mastercards 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 Business Experimentation consultants advise executives on business decisions using Mastercards industry-leading predictive analytics SaaS platform, Test & Learn. They work with customers to identify key priorities, then design and run business experiments to establish which ideas work and how to deploy them.

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 regional and global clients by leveraging data science tools including Test & Learn

Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner

Provide analytical and technical subject matter expertise and drive client success through Test & Learn adoption and competency

Team Collaboration & Culture

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 using Test & Learn, 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

Basic qualifications

Undergraduate degree with analytical experience in consulting, analytics, or data science

Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders

Analytical, interpretive, and problem-solving skills, including the proven ability to analyze large amounts of data and synthesize key findings and recommendations

Logical, structured thinking and affinity for statistical and 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 and the local office language (if applicable)

Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Preferred qualifications

Additional relevant data and analytics experience in data modeling and database management (e.g., SQL), data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), or time series analysis and segmentation

Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties

Experience coaching junior delivery consultants

Relevant industry expertise

MBA or masters degree with relevant specialization (not required)