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

Junior Marketing Consultant – 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 proposal, execution and delivery of a range of different marketing projects for our clients. They work with a range of different stakeholders (from third-party agencies to in-house experts) to set-up campaigns, provide marketing recommendations and support clients in optimizing their marketing strategy.

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

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Management

• Manage multiple projects with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Manage deliverable development and multiple workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements
• Identify and understand stakeholder needs and execute accordingly as well as being able to manage a wide range of different suppliers/vendors
• Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner

Marketing Expertise

• Proactive identification of campaign purpose, evaluating campaign's performance and identifying levers to explain and improve results
• Contribute to the development of marketing strategies and campaigns for large regional and global clients by working with technology and data
• Synthetize data and identify relevant opportunities for Marketing
• Develop and run marketing projects related to the customer lifecycle based on a brief of the customer

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 working with clients or internal stakeholders, and vendors
• Organisational skills and attention to details
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and one of the local languages, French/Dutch
• Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs
• Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 - 3 years of 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 managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties
• Relevant industry expertise and/or experience in product, sales, or marketing technology
• MBA or master's degree with specialization in marketing or digital (not required)

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

What We Do

• Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them.
• Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along.
• Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights.
• People need financial access; we connect them.
• Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple.
• Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way.
• Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them.
• Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers.
• Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.