Associate Managing Consultant

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 Mastercard Data & Services provides cutting-edge data analysis and services to Fortune 500s, governments, and nonprofits to make multimillion-dollar business decisions and grow their organizations. Our Advisors Client 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. Mastercard Advisors works with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants. The Advisors Client 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 client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations. Roles and Responsibilities Client Impact Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements Contribute to and/or develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value 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 identify effective analysis structures to address client problems, synthesize analyses into relevant findings, and create impactful storylines Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management Contribute to 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 at least 4 years of work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis 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 Czech or Slovak language is a must Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs Preferred qualifications Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties Experience coaching junior delivery consultants Relevant industry expertise (mainly financial services) MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization Our Purpose We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and eve ... (truncated, view full listing at source)