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.
Title And Summary
Associate Consultant, Advisors Client Services, Business Experimentation
Associate Consultant, Launch Graduate Program 2024 Johannesburg, South Africa.
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment. Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders, and merchants worldwide, Mastercard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories.
You find more information on www.mastercardworldwide.com.
Who is Mastercard Data & Services?
The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing cutting-edge services that help our clients 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 client 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
As an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate with exceptional colleagues to help some of the world's 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 strategic problems.
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 experienced management team.
Have an immediate opportunity for meaningful contributions, increased responsibility, leadership roles, and professional advancement.
Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and quickly gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management.
Receive extensive training focusing on helping you build your core consulting skill set.
Business Experimentation
We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our clients with their most urgent business needs, and we are recruiting for our Business Experimentation career track that make up our team:
BE combines key elements of the other tracks, using advanced analytical techniques to inform executive-level strategic decisions with Fortune 1000 clients. Consultants work directly with senior-level client partners to advise on business decisions by measuring in-market experiments using an industry-leading data science SaaS platform, Test & Learn. Consultants work with clients across a range of industries to identify their key priorities, then design and run business experiments to establish which ideas work, where, when, and how to deploy them. This analytical partnership leads to a strong understanding of the full range of business challenges, from new product launches, marketing, loyalty, and pricing, to operations and strategy.
Sampling Of Questions We Help Our Clients Answer
Where should a retailer open new stores to maximize profitability and minimize the cannibalization of nearby omnichannel sales?
What bonus should be provided to someone opening a credit card account to entice them to use the card regularly?
Team members will typically support 2-4 clients concurrently and develop a deep understanding of client business challenges through longer term engagements.
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.
Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.
Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
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 our mistakes.
Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated leadership abilities.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate or masters degree with a target graduation date between Dec 2023 - August 2024
- 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
- Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experimentation tracks).
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively both verbally and in writing in English and the local office language(s)
- Must be a South African citizen.
- Would be able to start on March 4th 2024.
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 Mastercards 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 Mastercards guidelines.
