Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy

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 Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy 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 Program Management consultants lead clients through business transformations by implementing strategically important Mastercard assets and services to bring value and drive growth. They serve as the Center of Engagement across all stakeholders within Mastercard and the client’s organization. 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 You will manage a portfolio of projects that support a strategy, a strategic change, or initiative with significant impact on the organization. You will manage complexity and inherent risks across a wide range of business areas, where there are strong interdependencies and shared resources, and you will manage benefits from their initial identification and definition through to the eventual realization and achievement of measurable improvements. In addition to strong program and change management expertise, this role requires essential product and portfolio capability, particularly in cards, payments, or adjacent financial products. You will be responsible not only for delivery excellence, but also for analysing cards/payments portfolio performance, benchmarking outcomes, and translating insights into product, portfolio, and commercial recommendations for clients. Client Impact • Lead client engagements and workstreams for large enterprise-level programs across a range of industries, problem statements, and cultures • Promote proven, accredited project and change management methodologies and techniques to help clients drive measurable value from initiation to benefit realization • Mitigate risks, solve issues, and ensure plan remains in line with agreed timescales, budgets, and quality criteria • Identify new business opportunities and communicate to executives to pursue, leading sales calls and client development including proposal contribution • Own key relationships with mid-level to senior client stakeholders and independently assess client agenda, internal culture, and change readiness. • Execute portfolio level analysis across programs, products, or initiatives, including performance, progress, risks, and value delivered. • Analyse and benchmark portfolio performance against historical baselines, peer programs, and relevant industry or market benchmarks. • Develop executive level dashboards, sc ... (truncated, view full listing at source)