MasterCard - Managing Consultant - IIT/IIM

Role : 

The Managing Consultant (MC) will be part of the global team formulating, implementing and managing a new consulting delivery model for Mastercard Advisors:

Project Management & Delivery : 

- Responsible for developing top quality work in the centralized configured consulting team

- Develop relevant and value-creating analysis and insight for our clients; ensure work is synthesized into clear, sound recommendations with high standard document outputs

Team Management : 

- Lead small teams of local consultants and analysts undertaking project work - plan, organize and structure delivery to manage time and effort effectively within project budget/ profitability expectations

Configurable Solution Development & Knowledge Management -

- Help develop a scalable consulting business model by developing standardised methodologies, solution packages and deploying established project templates to ensure consistent, high quality deliverables

- Support development of competency centres on core Advisors configurable offerings within central team and help deploy these with clients and colleagues globally

- Proactively seek new knowledge and skills and facilitate the development of intellectual capital

- Monitor configured offering processes and deliverables to identify creative and useful additional and/or alternative analyses and paradigms to improve project quality and economics

Stakeholder Management : 

- Develop effective working relationships with mid to senior level colleagues

- Support MasterCard Advisors and local market account teams in identifying opportunities where standardized solutions can be utilized and assist in business development

All About You -

- We are looking for dynamic, self-starter and highly motivated individuals who would like to work in an intellectually & professionally challenging environment and can contribute to building up a new practice.

- Extensive experience in a consulting organization, ideally with exposure to strategy consulting or internal corporate strategy roles in FS/ banking/ payments industry

- Tenured Associate/ Consultant or equivalent from Tier 1 strategy consulting firms or Manager with the Strategy practice of Tier-2 consulting firms/ Big 4s or equivalent in Corporate Strategy team of a leading FI

- MBA or relevant post graduate degree from Tier-1 college with strong academic record

- Proven record of leading teams on engagements, managing clients with solid functional knowledge of strategy, project management, knowledge management etc.

- Exceptional analytical, quantitative problem solving skills leading to insights with proficiency in storyboarding, using consulting frameworks

- Comfortable with high performance culture; with ability to multi-task & collaboratively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills (both verbal & written) - English proficiency required; other languages desirable

- Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills