Associate Consultant, Launch Program, March 2025 - Egypt

Associate Consultant, Launch Program - March 2025

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

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Make an Impact as an Associate Consulta

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As an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and mo

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We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, and we are recruiting for 2 career tracks that make up our t

eam:
1-Marke

ting
Develop 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 Maste

rcard.
Sampling of questions we help our clients

answer:-How does a fintech client optimize new customer acquisition and existing customers’ life cycle value through effective targeting and communic

ations?-How does a retail client drive foot traffic into store post-covid and/or optimize their ecommerce website to increase basket-size and average spend per cu

stomer?-How can a large financial institution best execute on a portfolio conversion – for example, after purchasing another issuer’s portfolio – including components like internal and external communications, market launch, an

d more?
Team members typically support 1-3 projects from any domain and build fundamental marketing and consulting

toolkit.

2-Business Experi

mentation
Leverage Mastercard's industry-leading predictive analytics platform, Test & Learn®, and SQL to run data-backed business experiments for our clients. Consultants focus on data science-based solutions to provide insights on various business initiatives, including product launches, marketing campaigns, customer loyalty, and pricing across various industries that touch many Fortune 500 companies. Partner directly with clients to share findings and help determine which ideas are effective, as well as where, when, and how to impl

ement them.
Sampling of questions we help our custo

mers answer:-Where should a retailer open new stores to maximize profitability and minimize the cannibalization of nearby omnich

annel sales?-What bonus should be provided to someone opening a credit card account to entice them to use the car

d regularly?
Team members will typically support 2-4 clients concurrently and develop a deep understanding of client business challenges through longer term engagements (typically lastin

g 1-2 years).

Bring your Passio

n and ExpertiseWe recruit for and value the following cor

e competencies:-Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurric

ular activities
-Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills. Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics or Business Experime

ntation tracks).
-Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companie

s make decisions.
-Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic developm

ent opportunities.
-Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a wi

ll to win attitude.
-Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. 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.
-Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal

communication

skills.
Qualifications:
-To be available for st

art from 3rd March 2025.
-Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between June 2024 - Feb 2025 with no more

than 6 months experience.
-Strong verbal and wri

tten communication skills.
-Analytical

and problem-solving skills.
-Strong strate

gic and conceptual aptitude.
-Ability to multi-task and prioritize mu

ltiple projects concurrently.
-High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, te

chnical, and strategic skills.
-Citizenship Requirement: This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in Egypt, now as well as in the future

, without employer sponsorship.
In your cover letter, please indicate your first track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match appl

icants with their desired track.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 divers

e set of skills and experiences.
To participate in our job simulation and experience what it’s like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard visit: https://www.theforage.com/simulations/masterc