Associate Managing Consultant - Marketing Services

MasterCard; Riyadh; On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Managing Consultant to join their dynamic Marketing Services team. This role involves developing and implementing impactful marketing strategies for a diverse range of clients, leveraging data-driven insights and innovative solutions. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, manage client relationships, and lead project management efforts. If you are passionate about marketing and eager to drive results in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking company that empowers its employees and values creativity and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in marketing and campaign projects across various channels.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop marketing strategies and manage multiple workstreams for clients.
• Collaborate with internal teams to enhance project outcomes.

Skills

Marketing Strategy Development

Digital Marketing

Campaign Management

Client Relationship Management

Communication Skills

Project Management

Education

Undergraduate Degree

MBA or Master's Degree in Marketing

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart, and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships, and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses, and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Associate Managing Consultant - Marketing Services Associate Managing Consultant – Marketing, 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 Marketing consultants lead the strategy development and implementation of campaigns and engagements for clients. They use customer data to provide deep direct marketing expertise across channels, evaluating campaign results and adapting the approach to optimize marketing performance.

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: Consulting Specializations at Mastercard

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

• Manage deliverable development and multiple workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements.
• Contribute to the development of marketing strategies and campaigns for large regional and global clients by working with technology and data.
• Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner.

Team Collaboration & Culture

• Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations.
• Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project delivery consultants to generate marketing strategies and insights, and prepare presentations.
• Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management.
• Collaborate with internal Mastercard stakeholders including Product and Business Development to build the firm's intellectual capital and solution development.
• Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• Undergraduate degree with work experience in marketing and campaign projects focused on one or more of the following fields: marketing content, digital and social media campaigns, digital customer experience, digital marketing, end-to-end product launch, ad-tech and mar-tech ecosystems, offline marketing activities/campaigns, media management and planning, direct response marketing.
• Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties.
• Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders, and vendors.
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable).
• Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.

Preferred qualifications

• Additional marketing experience in one or more of the following fields: marketing and campaign experience from agency environment, search engine optimization and search engine marketing, video making (e.g., scripting, storyboard, and content), marketing content, usability labs and experience research, print production management.
• Global supply chain management (GSM), including sourcing new suppliers and assessing third party production vendors.
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Experience developing and implementing solutions and measuring impact on clients' business.
• Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties.
• Experience coaching junior delivery consultants.
• Relevant industry expertise and/or experience in product, sales, or marketing technology.
• MBA or master’s degree with specialization in marketing or digital (is a plus).

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.
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.