Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation

Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Time Type: Full time

Posted On: Posted Today

End Date to Apply: March 27, 2025 (13 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: R-243354

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

Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services - Strategy & Transformation

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.

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for data-driven consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.

Role

As a Senior Managing Consultant, you will be a trusted client business advisor, and lead client engagements across a range of industries and types of projects, such as consulting services, Test & Learn, or data and analytics. You will lead engagement teams to best in class insights and project deliverables. Responsibilities within project management will include owning mid- to senior-level client relationships and proactively engaging in the client agenda, internal culture, and relationship risks.

As a strong people manager, you will mentor and coach junior teammates and contribute to Mastercard’s knowledge management and best practices.

All About You

We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

1. Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in guiding project teams towards delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
2. Problem Solving: Leads teams to identify the most critical aspects of a problem and guides them to business-focused solutions and recommendations.
3. Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.
4. Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients.
5. Client Management: Inspire client confidence through timely and reliable execution.
6. Communication and Presence: Leads composition of complete deliverables and demonstrates effective verbal communication.
7. Teamwork: Motivates teams on large engagements to produce superior quality deliverables.
8. Commercial Orientation: Identifies strong opportunities to leverage Services capabilities.
9. Leadership: Instills urgency, ownership, and empowerment in leaders at all levels.
10. Integrity: Models Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity.
11. Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to every client engagement.

Qualifications:

1. Undergraduate or master’s degree and tenured work experience.
2. Experience in a consulting organization as a consultant.
3. Experience directly managing multiple people across multiple projects.
4. Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
5. Exposure in payments and/or retail banking preferred.
6. Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively in English.
7. Demonstrated ability to develop relationships with client contacts.
8. Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
9. Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required.
10. Eligible to work in the country of application and apply for travel visas as required.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with inherent risk. It is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

1. Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices.
2. Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed.
3. Report any suspected information security violation or breach.
4. Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.