Job Title:

Strategy Manager, Advisors & Consulting Services

Overview:

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.

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:
• Bachelor’s degree with 4–7 years of experience in consulting or corporate strategy
• Strong client or stakeholder management skills
• Analytical mindset with comfort in numerical analysis
• Proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Experience leading workstreams in team settings
• Fluent in English
• Eligible to work in the country of application and travel as needed

Preferred Qualifications:
• Exposure to mentoring or coaching junior team members
• Industry knowledge in areas such as payments, banking, fintech, or retail
• MBA or relevant master’s degree (a plus, not required)