Consulting Manager, Strategy & Transformation
Mastercard
- Guangzhou, Guangdong
- Permanent
- Full-time
As a Consultant, you will have the opportunity to actively contribute to client engagements across a range of industries and types of projects, such as consulting services, Test & Learn, or data and analytics:
- Working with technology and data, contributes towards the development of strategies and programs for large, strategically important regional and global clients
- Independently identifies issues in defined area of analysis, structures analysis with oversight and synthesizes own analysis and identifies relevant implications
- Supports development of recommendations, and prepares presentations, and delivers them to clients
- Understands immediate clients’ needs and agenda to provide creative input into project
- Develops day-to-day working relationship with entry-level clients
- Identifies engagement risks in immediate area of responsibility
- 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 senior Mastercard Advisors staff
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: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.
- Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
- Communication and Presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, positioning Mastercard’s solutions as high value solutions in sales and delivery conversations.
- Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.
- Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.
- Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
- Undergraduate or master’s degree and at least 1-2 years of work experience after completing your undergraduate degree
- Experience in a consulting organization as a consultant
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges
- Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language(s)
- Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with colleagues and clients
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required, SQL / data expertise preferred
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs.