As a Managing Consultant, you will deliver strategies and programs in payments, manage project complexities, and enhance client skills and processes.
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy
All About Us
The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, test-and-learn business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.
All About the Role
Make an Impact as a Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy
Deploy is an execution-oriented client facing competency that applies proven, accredited change skills and domain experience to partner with clients and help them drive measurable value by:• Delivering new products and strategies to market smoothly and efficiently• Successfully implementing products and solutions to create the new business as usual• Strengthening client's internal skills, knowledge and experience in critical areas • Transforming client processes and optimizing their management practices
As Managing Consultant you may 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 improvements.
Your initial assignment will be as an embedded Senior Product Owner - Debit Card Migration at one of our clients based in Sydney. You will lead part of the debit card portfolio for a major Australian bank. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to shape the future of debit card products and drive initiatives that create real customer value.
All About You
• Experience in delivery of strategies and programs across the payments sector from initiation to benefit realization. • Ability to align teams and stakeholders around a clear product vision, delivering customer-focused value through data-driven priorities and agile execution.• Develop strong bonds with clients that endure beyond a particular assignment, serves as a go-to resource for client staff, is sought out for knowledge of industry and firm• Identify new business opportunities and communicates to executives to pursue, begin to lead sales calls and new client development including proposal contribution• Analyze multiple aspects of client's organizational systems and culture that serve as input into the stakeholder / relationship map sales process• Effectively leverage subject matter experts to develop best customized solutions for client• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, able to direct workstreams across large multi-faceted project teams• Strong writer, presenter and speaker, comfortable and ability to influence at all levels in an organization• Able to use own initiative, develop solutions or adapt approaches to support the delivery of defined objectives and benefits• Demonstrate authentic leadership and integrity, gravitas and experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in a matrixed environment, mentoring staff, evaluating performance and providing feedback
All About Your Education & Skills
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification. Advanced degree or MBA preferred• Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred• Strong Cards product experience is required for this role across Debit (required) and Credit (desirable)• Experience with card migrations and other transformation programs• Professional accreditation such as Project Management Professional (PMP) desirable• Fluent local office language and English required, other languages desirable• Comfortable with significant client interaction and interest in building relationships• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required, knowledge of Project Management tools preferred• Willingness to travel
Corporate Security Responsibility
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:
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy
All About Us
The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, test-and-learn business experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. While specializing in the payments industry, Mastercard Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.
All About the Role
Make an Impact as a Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Deploy
Deploy is an execution-oriented client facing competency that applies proven, accredited change skills and domain experience to partner with clients and help them drive measurable value by:• Delivering new products and strategies to market smoothly and efficiently• Successfully implementing products and solutions to create the new business as usual• Strengthening client's internal skills, knowledge and experience in critical areas • Transforming client processes and optimizing their management practices
As Managing Consultant you may 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 improvements.
Your initial assignment will be as an embedded Senior Product Owner - Debit Card Migration at one of our clients based in Sydney. You will lead part of the debit card portfolio for a major Australian bank. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to shape the future of debit card products and drive initiatives that create real customer value.
All About You
• Experience in delivery of strategies and programs across the payments sector from initiation to benefit realization. • Ability to align teams and stakeholders around a clear product vision, delivering customer-focused value through data-driven priorities and agile execution.• Develop strong bonds with clients that endure beyond a particular assignment, serves as a go-to resource for client staff, is sought out for knowledge of industry and firm• Identify new business opportunities and communicates to executives to pursue, begin to lead sales calls and new client development including proposal contribution• Analyze multiple aspects of client's organizational systems and culture that serve as input into the stakeholder / relationship map sales process• Effectively leverage subject matter experts to develop best customized solutions for client• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, able to direct workstreams across large multi-faceted project teams• Strong writer, presenter and speaker, comfortable and ability to influence at all levels in an organization• Able to use own initiative, develop solutions or adapt approaches to support the delivery of defined objectives and benefits• Demonstrate authentic leadership and integrity, gravitas and experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in a matrixed environment, mentoring staff, evaluating performance and providing feedback
All About Your Education & Skills
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification. Advanced degree or MBA preferred• Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred• Strong Cards product experience is required for this role across Debit (required) and Credit (desirable)• Experience with card migrations and other transformation programs• Professional accreditation such as Project Management Professional (PMP) desirable• Fluent local office language and English required, other languages desirable• Comfortable with significant client interaction and interest in building relationships• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required, knowledge of Project Management tools preferred• Willingness to travel
Corporate Security Responsibility
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 practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
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