Mastercard Graduate Launch Program -2023

Job Description

Our PurposeWe 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 TitleMastercard Graduate Launch Program -2023- Associate Consultant, AdvisorsThe Data & 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 ConsultantAs an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate with exceptional colleagues to help some of the worlds biggest brands answer their most challenging strategic questions. Working with 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, you will:?Work on small teams to solve our clients most challenging strategicproblems?Build strong relationships with clients to understand their business needs,find strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions?Grow your career by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experiencedmanagement team?Have an immediate opportunity for meaningful contributions, increasedresponsibility, leadership roles, and professional advancement?Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization andquickly gain exposure to business development, account management, andproduct management?Receive extensive training focusing on helping you build your coreconsulting skill setWe are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, we are recruiting for the following career tracks and you will be assigned to one of them, refer below*:Strategy & TransformationLead customers through sound decision making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges, spanning across diverse topics including product, marketing, loyalty, innovation, and more. Apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve overall performance and operations.Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:oHow can a global financial services institution be successful at entering ahyper competitive new market?oHow can a customer improve its operating model to better achieveoperational, financial and strategic goals?Team members typically support 2-4 projects concurrently, with each project lasting for approximately 3-6 months.Marketing AnalyticsDevelop 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:oHow does a fintech client optimize new customer acquisition and existingcustomers? life cycle value through effective targeting andcommunications?oHow does a retail client drive foot traffic into store post-covid and/oroptimize their ecommerce website to increase basket-size and averagespend per customer?Team members typically support 1-3 projects from any domain and build fundamental marketing and consulting toolkitBring your Passion and ExpertiseWe recruit for and value the following core competencies:?Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering thehighest quality results and recommendations to our clients.?Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problemsolving and quantitative skills.?Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition forthe way that companies make decisions.?Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercardsstructured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.?Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstandingdeliverables, with a will to win attitude.?Integrity: Commitment to Mastercards values of honesty and integrity witha willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.?Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table inevery client engagement or internal activity.?Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, withdemonstrated leadership abilities.Qualifications:?Undergraduate or master?s degree with a target graduation datebetween Dec 2022 - August 2023?Outstanding record of academic achievement?Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricularactivities?Exceptional (quantitative) problem solving skills, analytical skills and/ordigital marketing skills?Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively ? both verbally and inwriting ? in English & French plus any other add-on language is welcome*In your cover letter/CV, please indicate your first and second track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired tracks.Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend the majority of your time, however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire a diverse set of skills and experiences.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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.

Keyskills :