MasterCard - Managing Consultant - Retail Green Belt - Center of Excellence

Our Purpose :

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Job Title :

Managing Consultant, Retail Green Belt, CoE :

The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the 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.

Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, test-and-learn business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Data & Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals who share our vision for data-driven consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.

Make an Impact as an Associate Managing Consultant and Retail SME

As a Managing Consultant and retail subject matter expert, you will have the opportunity to lead key client engagements across a range of industries and types of consulting projects, acting as a participant in, and overseeing quality across retail projects. Working with technology and data, you will generate key hypotheses and independently structure workstreams to address client problems. Overseeing the day-to-day work of the project delivery team, you will identify creative and useful retail analyses to address client problems, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations. You will also create effective, impactful story lines and slides.

In leading the problem-solving process to drive high-value decisions, you will also have the opportunity to mentor junior teammates and contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development. At Mastercard, you are expected to have a tremendous impact in transforming our clients- businesses, while also taking a leading role in shaping the organization's future.

Bring your Passion and Expertise.

We recruit for, and value the following core competencies :

- Passion : Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.

- Subject Matter Expertise : Local office go-to person for commercial payments, assisting with specialist sales support such as presentations, demonstrations, RFP support, product management & development, client program implementation and support, and focused on knowledge sharing and development of team members.

- Analytic Excellence : Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.

- Project Management : Clear interest in project delivery with Mastercard clients, and intuition for the way that companies and their end client make decisions.

- Communication and Presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, positioning Mastercard's solutions as high value solutions in sales and delivery conversations.

- Teamwork : Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.

- Integrity : 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.

Qualifications :

- Undergraduate or master's degree

- Experience in a consulting organization as a consultant, or working in retail domain in a strategic client-facing capacity

- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges

- Exposure specifically in commercial payments and / or corporate banking

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

- Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with both junior- and senior-level client contacts

- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

- Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required

- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We've implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we're all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.-