Associate Managing Consultant

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

Associate Managing ConsultantAssociate 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 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 Business Experimentation consultants advise executives on business decisions using Mastercard's 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.

Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience:

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 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.

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