Associate Managing Consultant - Marketing Consulting Services

Mastercard India Services Pvt Ltd; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MasterCard Advisors in India seeks an Associate Managing Consultant to lead delivery projects in the Advisors & Consulting Services, Marketing unit. The role emphasizes rigorous problem solving, payments expertise, and senior client interactions to drive strategic outcomes.

Ideal candidates have a strong consulting background with payments/retail banking exposure, plus exceptional communication and analytical skills. MBA is preferred; undergraduate degree required.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required
• MBA or relevant degree recommended
• Significant consulting experience with payments domain preferred
• Strong communication and analytical skills required

Responsibilities

• Function as a project manager for delivery projects
• Identify issues affecting client problems in projects managed
• Develop hypotheses and structure work at project level
• Build relationships with mid- to senior-level client management
• Synthesize analyses into clear, actionable recommendations
• Identify additional analyses and new paradigms for recommendations
• Assess client agenda and change readiness; create compelling storylines and slides
• Support recruiting, training, and development of team members

Skills

Analytics & Insights

Communications & Presence

Team Contribution & Engagement

Client Management

Selling Skills

Knowledge Management

Multi-Cultural Skills

High Performance Culture

Education

Undergraduate degree

MBA or relevant degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Title and Summary

Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Marketing

Overview

MasterCard Advisors is comprised of three synergistic business units with distinct P&Ls: Consulting Services, Information Services, and Managed Services. These business units are supported by Advanced Analytics, Advisors Promotion & Marketing, Information Technologies & Advisors Technology Integration, Data Acquisition & Business Development, Human Resources & Development, Finance, Operations, Law and a Project Management Office.

Consulting Services is charged with combining professional problem-solving skills with deep payments expertise to address the challenges and opportunities of its clients, enhance MasterCard's strategic and tactical performance and establish MasterCard's global thought-leadership preeminence.

Information Services is responsible for the direct monetization of MasterCard’s differentiated data asset.

Managed Services is charged with providing superior executional services and turn-key solutions by leveraging MasterCard’s unique differentiated data asset and exceptional modeling and analytical capabilities on behalf of large and small clients.

Role Description and Major Responsibilities

• Function as a project manager for delivery projects
• Rigorously and logically identify issues covering client problems in the projects managed
• Generate key hypotheses and independently structures work at the project level
• Develop effective working relationships with mid- to senior-level client management
• Synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations
• Identify creative and useful additional analyses required and suggest new paradigms for recommendations
• Independently assess client agenda, internal culture and change readiness.
• Create effective, impactful and quality assured storylines and slides at the project level
• Participates in recruiting, training, and developing team members

Core Consulting Skills

• Analytics & Insights
• Communications & Presence
• Team Contribution & Engagement Management
• Client Management
• Selling Skills
• Knowledge Management
• Multi-Cultural Skills
• High Performance Culture.

Education, Qualifications and Experience

• Undergraduate degree required
• MBA or relevant degree recommended

Experience and Skills Needed

• Significant experience in a consulting organization, with exposure to payments business
• Experience specifically in payments and/or retail banking or merchants preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills

Languages

• English language required
• Additional languages desired

Corporate Security Responsibility

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 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.

Experience Level

Mid Level