Consultant, Strategy

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*
Consultant, Strategy & Transformation, Advisors Client Services

Overview
Mastercard Data & Services provides cutting-edge data analysis and services to Fortune 500s, governments, and nonprofits to make multimillion-dollar business decisions and grow their organizations. Our Advisors Client Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard's rich data assets and in-house technologies to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Mastercard Advisors work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and finance.

The Advisors Client Services group has five specializations: Performance Analytics, Strategy & Transformation, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Project Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead customers through decision making, tackling strategic, operational, and transformational challenges across diverse topics including product, business drivers, loyalty, innovation, and more. You will apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve clients' overall strategy, performance, and operations.

Positions for these different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please apply to the position that is best suited to your background and experience.

If you want additional information regarding the different career levels and specializations within Advisors, visit the Advisors Client Services Specializations webpage.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Works with established project methodologies to ensure consistent, high quality deliverables
• Supports intellectual capital development from client work and incorporate insights from related intellectual capital/project initiatives
• Independently identifies issues in defined area of analysis, structures analysis with oversight and synthesizes own analysis and identifies relevant implications
• Supports development of recommendations, and prepares and delivers prepared presentations, working with defined templates and deliverables
• Leverages understanding of immediate clients' needs and agenda to provide creative input into project

Qualifications
Basic qualifications

• Undergraduate degree from a reputable university
• Work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management or product management
• Strong presence & communication skills – both interpersonal & written
• Proven team player with proven ability to work with all levels in a highly intellectual, collaborative, and fast paced environment
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Able to perform multiple tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Able to communicate effectively in English and the local office language
• Eligible to work in the country where they are applying and for travel visas as required by travel needs

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

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.

Posting windows may change based on the volume of applications received and business necessity. Candidates are encouraged to apply expeditiously.

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.