Strategic Consulting Expert

Transform Business Outcomes with Strategic Insight

Mastercard empowers economies and people worldwide by making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. By combining our technology and innovation, partnerships, and networks, we deliver unique products and services that help individuals, businesses, and governments achieve their greatest potential.

Job Description:

We are seeking a strategic Consultant to collaborate with clients across diverse industries, helping them answer and implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. As a key member of our Services team, you will work on end-to-end solutions for global clients, leveraging data assets and in-house technology to provide powerful insights and recommendations.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills, with a strong aptitude for structured problem-solving.
• Clear interest in the world of business, with an intuition for company decision-making processes.
• Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work on high-impact projects, collaborating with senior project delivery consultants to identify key findings and prepare effective presentations.
• Independently identifying issues in defined areas of analysis, structuring and synthesizing your own analysis to highlight relevant findings.
• Lead internal and client meetings, contributing to project management and developing working relationships with client analysts/managers.
• Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital, receiving mentorship from consulting leaders for professional growth and development.

Others:

Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.

Core Competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
• 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: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes.
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
• Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management.
• Relevant client or internal stakeholder management experience.
• 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).

Sampling of Questions We Help Our Customers Answer:

• How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a hyper competitive new market?
• How can a customer improve its operating model to better achieve operational, financial and strategic goals?

Our engagements cover diverse areas, including product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation. Working with clients from various industries, many S&T engagements directly interface with numerous Fortune 500 companies. This role aligns with the practices of traditional management consulting firms.

As a Consultant, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and more. You will work collaboratively to help clients achieve their objectives and drive meaningful change in their organizations.