Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors

Title and Summary

Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Performance AnalyticsAssociate Managing Consultant Performance Analytics

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 Performance Analytics consultants translate data into insights by leveraging Mastercard and customer data to design, implement, and scale analytical solutions for customers. They use qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques and enterprise applications to synthesize analyses into clear recommendations and impactful narratives.

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 analytics 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

Create predictive models using segmentation and regression techniques to drive profits

Review analytics end-products to ensure accuracy, quality and timeliness.

Proactively seek new knowledge and structures project work to facilitate the capture of Intellectual Capital with minimal oversight

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 and synthesize analyses into relevant findings

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

Develop effective working relationships with local and global teams including business partners

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

Undergraduate degree with data and analytics experience in business intelligence and/or descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics

Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders

Ability to analyze large datasets and synthesize key findings to provide recommendations via descriptive analytics and business intelligence

Knowledge of metrics, measurements, and benchmarking to complex and demanding solutions across multiple industry verticals

Data and analytics experience such as working with data analytics software (e.g., Python, R, SQL, SAS) and building, managing, and maintaining database structures

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 data and analytics experience working with Hadoop framework and coding using Impala, Hive, or PySpark or working with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)

Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment

Experience coaching junior delivery consultants

Relevant industry expertise

MBA or masters degree with relevant specialization (not required)