Mastercard is looking for а highly-motivated Associate Managing Consultant.
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The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We combine marketing and management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.
While specializing in the payments industry and providing strategic support to financial services clients, Mastercard Data & Services also works closely with major retailers, fintechs, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network. We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for impactful consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.
As a Marketing Consultant, you will have the opportunity to actively contribute to client engagements across a range of industries and types of projects:
• Contributes towards the development of creative strategies and programs for large, strategically important regional and global clients
• Independently identifies client challenges and propose highly meaningful, creative and efficient solutions
• Understands immediate clients’ needs and agenda to provide creative input into project
• Design client internal and external campaigns, thinking about effective stakeholder alignment, inhouse or agency creative development through to implementation
• Develops day-to-day working relationship with clients
• Structures end-to-end project delivery and identifies engagement risks proactively
• Supports intellectual capital development from client work and incorporate insights from related intellectual capital/project initiatives
• Contributes to proposal preparation
• Identifies client challenges and brings ideas on opportunities to the attention of managers
We recruit for and value the following core competencies:
• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving.
• Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
• Digital Marketing competencies (video, SEO, SEM, content marketing)
• Communication and Presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, with a focus on creating value for clients and Mastercard.
• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win and positive attitude.
Qualifications:
• Undergraduate or master’s degree
• Marketing experience in the areas of digital, financial services or agency marketing
• Experience in agency management, experience managing teams
• Creative mindset combined with structured approaches to develop appropriate marketing solutions for client needs
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and Russian
• Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with both junior- and senior-level client contacts
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.
