Associate Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services

About the Role

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.

Overview

As an Associate Managing Consultant, in Advisors Program Management, you will 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.

Deploy is a new suite of consulting solutions designed to respond to fast evolving customer needs for execution support, with a dual mission: deployment and value realization over the entire lifetime of major assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver new products and strategies to market smoothly and efficiently.
• Successfully implement complex technology assets and deliver challenging transformation programs to create new business as usual.
• Strengthen client’s internal skills, knowledge, and experience in critical areas.
• Transform client processes and optimize their management practices.
• Manage complexity and inherent risks across a wide range of business areas.
• Manage benefits from initial identification and definition through to eventual realization and achievement of measurable improvements.
• Develop strong bonds with clients that endure beyond a particular assignment.
• Serve as a go-to resource for client staff.
• Identify new business opportunities and communicate 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 clients.
• Direct workstreams across large multi-faceted project teams.
• 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.
• Mentor staff, evaluate performance, and provide feedback.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience in delivery of large enterprise-level programs across the financial services sector from initiation to benefit realization.
• Successful leadership of PMOs across different clients / businesses.
• Identifying and mitigating risks.
• Solving issues.
• Developing plans and ensuring they are implemented in line with agreed timescales, budgets, and quality criteria, including examples of re-aligning scope and objectives during a program to ensure maximum value extraction.
• Formal accreditation in one or more recognized PM/PMO/Change/Service management methodologies is expected.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Strong writer, presenter, and speaker.
• Comfortable and able to influence at all levels in an organization.

Base Salary Range

• 104,000.00 - 177,000.00 USD Annual