Mastercard is inviting recent graduates and final-year students to apply for the Associate Consultant Graduate Internship Programme, starting in 2025.
This 18-month global development program, known as the Mastercard Launch Program, provides participants with extensive professional growth and global exposure, laying the foundation for a successful career with Mastercard.
Location: Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa
Closing Date: Not specified
Programme Overview
As an Associate Consultant, you will work in small teams to assist some of the world’s leading brands with their most challenging strategic questions. This role offers the opportunity to immediately contribute by taking ownership of deliverables and building relationships with clients. You will focus on technology and data while gaining broad exposure to various industries such as financial services, retail, restaurants, and hospitality.
Mastercard is recruiting for three career tracks:
- Strategy & Transformation
- Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges.
- Engage in areas like product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation.
- Work with clients across various industries, including many Fortune 500 companies.
- Performance Analytics
- Use quantitative and qualitative skills to drive data-led consulting solutions.
- Work with enterprise applications like Business Intelligence Platforms, SQL, and Python.
- Analyze trends, develop propensity models, and synthesize data into strategic insights.
- Marketing
- Develop and implement marketing campaigns, evaluating their impact on performance.
- Utilize customer, behavioral, and transactional data to create tangible results for clients.
Requirements
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Availability: Must be able to start on 3rd March 2025.
- Educational Background: Final Year Undergraduate/Masters Student or Graduated no earlier than June 2024.
- Citizenship: Must be a South African citizen.
- Skills:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strategic and conceptual aptitude.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently.
- High-energy, with a strong sense of ownership and a desire to succeed.
Core Competencies
Mastercard values the following competencies in applicants:
- Passion: Responsibility and pride in delivering high-quality results.
- Analytic Excellence: Strong problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills.
- Business Interest: Clear understanding and interest in how companies make decisions.
- Rapid Growth: Willingness to learn quickly through structured training and development.
- Teamwork: Collaboration within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables.
- Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard’s values of honesty and integrity.
- Diverse Perspective: Unique skills or approaches to client engagements.
- Communication: Ability to effectively communicate complex ideas.
How to Apply
To apply for the Mastercard Associate Consultant Graduate Programme, click on the button below to submit your application online. Make sure to apply early as the closing date is not specified.