Managing Consultant

Title and Summary

Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deplo

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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 restaurant

s.The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Deploy. Our Deploy 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 organizatio

n.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-masterca

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Roles and Responsibilit

iesYou 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 improvemen

ts.In addition to strong program and change management expertise, this role requires essential product and portfolio capability, particularly in cards, payments, or adjacent financial produc

ts.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 clien

ts.Client Imp

act• Lead client engagements and workstreams for large enterprise-level programs across a range of industries, problem statements, and cultu

res• Promote proven, accredited project and change management methodologies and techniques to help clients drive measurable value from initiation to benefit realizat

ion• Mitigate risks, solve issues, and ensure plan remains in line with agreed timescales, budgets, and quality crite

ria• Identify new business opportunities and communicate to executives to pursue, leading sales calls and client development including proposal contribut

ion• Own key relationships with mid-level to senior client stakeholders and independently assess client agenda, internal culture, and change readine

ss.• Execute portfolio level analysis across programs, products, or initiatives, including performance, progress, risks, and value deliver

ed.• Analyse and benchmark portfolio performance against historical baselines, peer programs, and relevant industry or market benchmar

ks.• Develop executive level dashboards, scorecards, and insights to support fact based decision maki

ng.• Use data and performance insights to recommend portfolio optimisation actions, prioritisation changes, or product and initiative refinemen

ts.• Apply product and portfolio thinking when leading programs, particularly in cards, payments, or financial services contex

ts.• Translate business strategy and client objectives into clear product, portfolio, and delivery roadma

ps.• Provide structured recommendations on product performance, customer outcomes, and portfolio economics, beyond pure delivery metri

cs.• Support clients in linking program delivery to customer impact, revenue growth, cost efficiency, and long‑term portfolio val

ue.
Team Collaboration & Cul

ture• Lead team to creative insights and sound business recommendations, and deliver impactful and influential client presentations while growing team members roles and sk

ills• Provide expertise and day-to-day project delivery team leadership, supporting evolution of solutions with innovation and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all le

vels• Manage relationship with internal Mastercard leadership and stakeholders and build the firm's intellectual cap

ital• Effectively leverage subject matter experts to develop best customized solut

ions• Provide on-the-job training, coaching, and mentorship to junior team members, including evaluating performance, and providing feed

back
Qualifica

tionsBasic qualifica

tions• Undergraduate degree with work experience in project management and change management methodologies and techn

iques• 6+ years of Project Management experience/7+ Cards Product and Portfolio Management exper

ience• Exposure to financial institutions, payments, cards and/or consulta

ncies• Experience coaching and managing teams across multiple projects and/or engagements with third pa

rties• Experience managing key client relation

ships• Knowledge of business KPIs, financials, and organizational leade

rship• Ability to provide perspective on industry and market

place• Logical, structured thi

nking• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint s

kills• Ability to manage multiple tasks and clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven enviro

nment• Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applic

able)• 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 qualific

ations• Experience leading development and implementation of solutions and measuring impact on clients bu

siness• Experience managing or analysing product or portfolio performance (e.g. cards, payments, banking prod

ucts).• Strong capability in portfolio analytics, benchmarking, and performance repo

rting.• Experience leading programs linked to product launches, portfolio optimisation, or commercial transform

ation.• Have completed or interested in pursuing recognized professional accreditation, such as Project Management Professional

(PMP)• Knowledge of Project Management

tools• Experience generating new knowledge or creating innovative solutions for

a firm• MBA or master's degree with relevant specialization (not req

uired)

Corporate Security Respon

sibility
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 p
• ractices;Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being
• accessed;Report any suspected information security violation or br
• each, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's gu