Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors – Strategy & Transformation Apply locations Lisbon, Portugal
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Job requisition id: R-221183
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 Managing Consultant, Advisors – Strategy & Transformation
Mastercard Data & Services provides cutting-edge data analysis and services to Fortune 500s, governments, and nonprofits to make multimillion-dollar business decisions and grow their organizations. Our Advisors Client Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard's rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Mastercard Advisors works with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.
The Advisors Client Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client's overall strategy, performance, and operations.
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact
Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements.
Contribute to and/or develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value.
Manage working relationships with client managers, and act as a trusted and reliable partner.
Team Collaboration & Culture
Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations.
Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project delivery consultants to identify effective analysis structures to address client problems, synthesize analyses into relevant findings, and create impactful storylines.
Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management.
Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development.
Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management.
Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders.
Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis.
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 at least in another business language (e.g. Spanish, French, German). Fluency in Portuguese a strong plus but not mandatory.
Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.
Preferred qualifications
Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties.
Experience coaching junior delivery consultants.
Relevant industry expertise.
MBA or master's degree with relevant specialization (not required).
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
About Us Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers.
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