Associate Consultant Intern, Marketing Services

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 Consultant Intern, Marketing Services - Internship Program, 2025/2026 - São Paulo, Brazil

**Job Description**:
Associate Consultant Intern, Advisors - 2025/2026

The 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 Intern

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on 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 Intern, you will:
Participate in volunteer and team building experiences;
Gain exposure to our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series;
Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions;
Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team;
Have an opportunity for meaningful contributions; and

Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management.

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business need. We are recruiting for the Marketing Services track that make up our team:
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:
How does a fintech client optimize new customer acquisition and existing customers’ life cycle value through effective targeting and communications?

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?

How can a large financial institution best execute on a portfolio conversion - for example, after purchasing another issuer’s portfolio - including components like internal and external communications, market launch, and more

Team members typically support 1-3 projects from any domain and build fundamental marketing and consulting toolkit

QUALIFICATIONS

Undergraduate expected graduation date between July 2026 and December 2026

Outstanding record of academic achievement

Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities

Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills

Particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks, experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset.

Ability to communicate ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and the local office language(s)

**Program starting in August 2025 (part-time / Hybrid Model)

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.