Job Title:

Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors - Strategy & Transformation

Overview:

Job Description Summary
Advisors & Consulting Services

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Our Advisors & Consulting 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. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.

The Advisors & Consulting 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.

Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required)

· Undergraduate degree with 4-8 years of experience in strategy consulting and/or payments (ideally both), with experience managing clients and/or internal stakeholders

· Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills

· Native Spanish and full proficiency in English

· Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis

· Eligibility to work in Spain, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Preferred qualifications (nice to have)

· Additional languages, especially Catalan native speakers

· Experience in leadership and coaching junior consultants

· Relevant industry expertise

· MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization


Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

· Developing deliverables on multiple projects, leading different workstreams and presentations to the clients

· 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 relationship with both clients and internal senior stakeholders

Team Collaboration & Culture

· Plan, organize, and structure own work and the junior team to identify effective analysis structures to address client problems, synthesize analyses and 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