Description
Mastercard's internship program offers an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities.
As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality, and more.
Responsibilities:
- Work in small teams to support strategic consulting projects across industries
- Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management
- Analyze data, identify trends, and help translate insights into recommendations
- Create clear and compelling presentations for internal teams and clients
- Support problem solving by structuring challenges and exploring solutions
- Build an understanding of how consulting engagements are delivered end to end
- Participate in volunteer and team building experiences
- Gain exposure to our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series
- Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions
- Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team
Specialization Tracks:
- Business Experimentation: Leverage Mastercard's industry-leading predictive analytics platform, Test & Learn®, and SQL to run data-backed business experiments for our clients.
- Strategy & Transformation: Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations.
- Performance Analytics: Use quantitative and qualitative skills and enterprise applications to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers.
- Marketing: Develop strategies and lead implementation of marketing campaigns and engagements; evaluate results to drive performance on behalf of Mastercard’s clients.
- Deploy: Help clients implement, launch, and scale Mastercard products, platforms, and business transformation initiatives.
Requirements:
- Undergraduate or accelerated master’s degree with an expected graduation date between Dec 2027-July 2028
- Core competencies: Passion, Analytic Excellence, Business Interest, Rapid Growth, Teamwork, Integrity, Diverse Perspective, Communication
- Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset
Benefits:
- Mentorship and coaching from experienced professionals and leaders
- Networking opportunities with fellow interns, employees, and senior leaders
- Professional development experiences focused on career growth and skill-building
- Exposure to innovative technologies and global business challenges
- Volunteer, community engagement, and team-building activities