Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation Lisboa

Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Job Title: Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation

Overview:

Associate Managing Consultant – Strategy & Transformation

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
- added services and leverage expertise,
- 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 Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful
- making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of
- solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations.

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

1. Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements.
2. Contribute to and/or develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value.
3. Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner.

Team Collaboration & Culture

1. Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations.
2. 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.
3. Lead team and external meetings, and lead or
   - lead project management.
4. Contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development.
5. Grow from coaching to enable ownership of
   -
   - day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

1. Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management.
2. Experience managing clients or internal stakeholders.
3. Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis.
4. Advanced Word, Excel, and Power
   Point skills.
5. Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a
   - paced,
   - driven environment.
6. Ability to communicate effectively in English, the local office language (if applicable) and ideally one additional European Language (e. g. Spanish, French, German or Italian).
7. Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.

Preferred qualifications

1. Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties.
2. Experience coaching junior delivery consultants.
3. Relevant industry expertise.
4. MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required).