Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you’ll launch your Mastercard career.
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.
Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant
As an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world’s biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality, and more.
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, and we are recruiting for 3 career tracks that make up our team:
- Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations. Our engagements cover diverse areas, including product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation.
- Use quantitative and qualitative skills and enterprise applications (e.g., Business Intelligence Platforms, SQL, Python, and more) to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers.
- Develop strategies and lead implementation of marketing campaigns and engagements; evaluate results to drive performance on behalf of Mastercard’s clients.
Bring your Passion and Expertise
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: Strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills.
- Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
- Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly.
- Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables.
- Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard’s values of honesty and integrity.
- Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table.
- Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively.
Qualifications:
- To be available for start from 3rd March 2025
- To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than June 2024
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently
- High-energy, can-do attitude with strong sense of ownership.
- Citizenship Requirement: Applicants for this position must be a citizen of South Africa.
In your cover letter, please indicate your first track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired track.
To participate in our job simulation and experience what it’s like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard, visit: Job Simulation .
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization. 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 practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach;
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
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