Associate Consultant Intern, 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

Associate Consultant Intern, Strategy & Transformation - Internship Program, 2025/2026 - São Paulo, Brazil

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 needs, and we are recruiting for the Strategy & Transformation career track that make up our team:
Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations; 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.

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.