Associate Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation
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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 Consultant – Strategy & Transformation
Advisors & Consulting Services
Services within Mastercard are 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.
Specializations
The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision‑making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem‑solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations.
Roles and Responsibilities

Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements
Contribute to and/or develop 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 a trusted and reliable partner
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, 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

Basic Qualifications

Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management
Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders
Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for 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
Ability to travel to client sites on a semi‑regular basis

Preferred Qualifications

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

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
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Business Development and Sales
Industries: Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet

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