Associate Managing Consultant Strategy & Transformation

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Harrisonburg (VA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Managing Consultant for Strategy & Transformation. In this dynamic role, you will manage projects that drive impactful decision-making and enhance client strategies. You will collaborate with diverse teams, leveraging data-driven insights to deliver effective solutions across various industries. This position offers the opportunity to grow your consulting expertise while mentoring junior consultants and contributing to innovative projects that shape the future of digital payments. Join a forward-thinking company that values your contributions and supports your professional development in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with Company Match

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Sick Days

Paid Vacation Days

Tuition Reimbursement

Fitness Reimbursement

Flexible Spending Account

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting, corporate strategy, or product management is essential.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office tools are required.

Responsibilities

• Manage deliverables and workstreams across various industries.
• Develop strategies for clients using data and technology solutions.

Skills

Consulting

Corporate Strategy

Business Intelligence

Numerical Analysis

Communication Skills

Education

Undergraduate Degree

MBA or Master's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

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 Strategy & Transformation

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 clients' overall strategy, performance, and operations.

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

1. Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements.
2. Contribute to and/or develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value.
3. Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner.

Team Collaboration & Culture

1. Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations.
2. Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project delivery consultants to identify effective analysis structures to address client problems, synthesize analyses into relevant findings, and create impactful storylines.
3. Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management.
4. Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development.
5. Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

1. Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management.
2. Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders.
3. Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis.
4. Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
5. Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
6. Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable).
7. Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.

Preferred qualifications

1. Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties.
2. Experience coaching junior delivery consultants.
3. Relevant industry expertise.
4. MBA or master's degree with relevant specialization (not required).

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience, and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full-time (and certain part-time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits, and many more.