Mastercard Graduate Launch Program -2023- Associate Consultant, Advisors The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.

Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant
As an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate with exceptional colleagues to help some of the world's biggest brands answer their most challenging strategic questions. Working with technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and more.

As an Associate Consultant, you will:

• Work on small teams to solve our clients' most challenging strategic

problems

• Build strong relationships with clients to understand their business needs,

find strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions

• Grow your career by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced

management team

• Have an immediate opportunity for meaningful contributions, increased

responsibility, leadership roles, and professional advancement

• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and

quickly gain exposure to business development, account management, and
product management

• Receive extensive training focusing on helping you build your core

consulting skill set

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, we are recruiting for the following career tracks and you will be assigned to one of them, refer below*:

Strategy & Transformation
Lead customers through sound decision making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges, spanning across diverse topics including product, marketing, loyalty, innovation, and more. Apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve overall performance and operations.
Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:
o How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a
hyper competitive new market?
o How can a customer improve its operating model to better achieve
operational, financial and strategic goals?
Team members typically support 2-4 projects concurrently, with each project lasting for approximately 3-6 months.

Marketing Analytics

Develop strategies and lead implementation of marketing campaigns and engagements; evaluate results to drive performance on behalf of Mastercard’s clients. Provide deep direct marketing expertise across channels, leveraging customer, behavioral and transactional data and defining tangible results to both the client and Mastercard.
Sampling of questions we help our clients answer:
o How does a fintech client optimize new customer acquisition and existing
customers’ life cycle value through effective targeting and
communications?
o How does a retail client drive foot traffic into store post-covid and/or
optimize their ecommerce website to increase basket-size and average
spend per customer?
Team members typically support 1-3 projects from any domain and build fundamental marketing and consulting toolkit

Bring your Passion and Expertise

We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the

highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.

• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem

solving and quantitative skills.

• Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for

the way that companies make decisions.

• Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's

structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.

• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding

deliverables, with a will to win attitude.

• Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with

a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.

• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in

every client engagement or internal activity.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with

demonstrated leadership abilities.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with a target graduation date

between Dec 2022 - August 2023

• Outstanding record of academic achievement
• Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular

activities

• Exceptional (quantitative) problem solving skills, analytical skills and/or

digital marketing skills

• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in

writing – in English & French plus any other add-on language is welcome

• In your cover letter/CV, please indicate your first and second track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired tracks.

Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend the majority of your time, however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire a diverse set of skills and experiences.

• 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.