Job Openings at Mastercard

Mastercard - We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives.  We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors Client Services, Data & Services

Job ID: R-152629
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Category: Strategy and Management Consulting
Job Type: Full time

Overview

• The Data & 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 Data & Services also works closely with major retailers, airlines, and other enterprises, leveraging data and insights garnered from within and beyond its network.
• 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. Leading the work of the project Delivery team, you will provide subject matter or industry expertise, be a resources to others to identify creative and efficient solutions, and guide the team to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value.
• 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 outside of direct engagement teams, and engender effective contribution to Mastercard’s knowledge management and best practices.
• At Mastercard, you are expected to not only have a tremendous impact in transforming our clients, but also have a leading role in shaping the organization’s future.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or Master's Degree and tenured work experience after completing your undergraduate degree
• Experience in a consulting organization as a consultant
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges
• Experience directly managing multiple people across multiple projects
• Experience as a people manager
• Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or merchants preferred
• Demonstrated ability to own and develop relationships with both mid- and executive-level client contacts and inspire confidence in Mastercard as a sought-after partner
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, and balance thought with action while getting the most out of limited resources
• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills required, SQL / data expertise preferred
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

All About You
We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in guiding project teams towards delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
• Problem Solving: Leads teams to identify the most critical aspects of a problem, and guides team to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value. Initiates changes to project direction where required, and able to decide and act without the total picture.
• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills, and leads team to effective and efficient technical capability usage regardless of context.
• Commercial Orientation: Ability to identify strong opportunities to leverage Data & Services capabilities, including identification of cross-sell opportunities beyond direct project work, and partner with broader Data & Services teammates on contracting activities, leveraging knowledge of Data & Services capabilities and how they fit together to create relevant solutions for clients.
• Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
• Client Management: Inspire client confidence through timely and reliable execution, and develop stakeholder management plans to align priorities and address support and resistance.
• Communication and Presence: Leads composition of complete deliverables and other written communication, and demonstrates an ability to communicate verbally in a wide range of complex scenarios and up to senior management levels.
• Teamwork: Motivates medium size teams or key workstreams on large engagements to produce superior quality deliverables while creating an open collaboration environment for all levels, with a will to win attitude.
• Leadership: Instill a sense of urgency, ownership, and empowerment and thoughtful risk taking into leaders at all levels. Structures work so it aligns with team members’ goals and motivators.
• Integrity: Models Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity. Follows through on commitments and makes others do the same.
• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.

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.

Application Closing Date: 13th May, 2023.

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2.) Program Lead, Gender Nigeria

Job Location: Lagos

The Opportunity

• Reporting to the Country Director, the Program Lead Gender, will be involved in the building and design of impactful country programs by setting direction and engaging partners throughout program design and implementation and focused on the Foundation’s commitment to enable dignified and fulfilling work for young women and young people in general.
• The role is responsible for facilitating understanding of gender dynamics and how they influence various opportunities and supporting programmatic interventions that are responsive to the realities at the country level.

Ways You can Contribute

• Integrate gender considerations across the Country Strategy, program cycle, and to advance the Foundation’s overall gender outcomes in collaboration with the Gender Team, Country Director, the Country Program Head, technical experts and program teams including Impact and Measurement, Thematic Research, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management and Communication teams.
• Effectively lead the Nigerian Program Team in Gender Mainstreaming and gender transformative initiatives at country level, ensuring high quality of work and alignment with Foundation values.
• Co-create and lead the implementation of Nigeria Gender Action Plan (GAP) to adequately support the delivery of gender commitments in the Country Roadmap.
• Co-design needs assessment and a detailed support plan on gender mainstreaming and for Foundation staff and partners at Country level, through training and coaching programs, resource development, identifying support networks, and so on.
• Co-create and/or adapt and share gender analysis tools for the Country Team and provide technical and strategic guidance for applying them to various projects/programmes at the country level.
• Collaborate with Programs colleagues to co-design programs and embed designs and adequate resources and budget to ensure implementation of gender approaches and mechanisms in the programmes.
• Initiate relationships with local organizations working on women and youth empowerment and various segments of young people and create opportunities (events, platforms) to listen to them and consider their input towards enhancing reach and impact for underserved young women and men in Nigeria.
• Coordinate and strengthen internal gender Community of Practice (CoP) for partners.
• Support implementing partners to build engagement and outreach mechanisms, ensuring young women especially and men remain at the front and centre of implementation efforts.
• Engage and solicit input from young people, especially young women and collaborating with colleagues to ensure inclusion of perspectives of young women and men, in portfolio and program design.
• Build and maintain relationships with leaders in the field of gender equality and identify and help develop strategic partnerships in Nigeria.
• Work with Impact and Research and Learning teams on research and evaluation of partners to ensure that they are able to stimulate relevant, rigorous, and respective approaches to deepening the Foundation’s approach to gender equity in the Country programmes.
• Identify and contribute to relevant learning networks and/or communities of practice and represent the Foundation at gender related events and coordination mechanisms in the country.
• Work with Knowledge management and business intelligence teams to identify, document, and mobilize gender-related insights and learning from the Foundation’s current and future portfolio of work in the Country in the support of the Country Director, Country Program Head, thematic/technical experts and program teams including Impact and Measurement, Thematic Research and Communication teams.
• Contribute to a Gender transformative learning culture within the Foundation that is reflective, people-focused, and rooted in gender-sensitive evidence.
• Manage relationships with government stakeholders, private sector and other actors in the gender and youth empowerment space.
• Drive oneness together with other country team members, building a supportive and collaborative work environment.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Foundation to execute the gender transformative work.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Foundation to identify and help overcome challenges and other barriers to team effectiveness. 
• Contribute insights to the Foundation’s thought leadership on youth employment in Africa.
• Work closely with the program and country teams to leverage synergies across programs and across geographies to improve the Country Program’s gender outcomes and other duties as required.

Who You Are

• Master’s Degree or equivalent experience in Social Sciences, including Gender / Women’s / Youth Studies, Safeguarding, Education or relevant discipline is an asset.
• Minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience in supporting young people, community mobilization, events and communications and gender-based and youth empowerment activities.  This experience could include project management and/or field experience working in developing countries as well as building and managing coalitions.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership and management experience including managing staff and coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback.
• Knowledge of and experience with the landscape of local, national, regional, and pan-African women’s and youth-serving organizations and networks as well as knowledge of the country-specific social, economic and political contexts.
• Experience in partnership management including capacity building, coordination and networking for effective gender mainstreaming.
• Demonstrates strong analytical skills, the ability to think strategically and contribute as a thought partner in the Foundation’s strategy development.
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate progress and learnings from projects to colleagues and the wider development community.
• Demonstrates experience in translating technical advice into practical recommendations for program managers and implementers. Command of quantitative and qualitative business analytics.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of gender approaches in effective programming in Africa and the systemic challenges affecting young women and men, and how to resolve such challenges. Possesses understanding and knowledge of current trends and innovations in gender mainstreaming. Experience with global grant making, especially in designing market systems development programs. 
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• Excellent project management skills, including multi-stakeholder projects and strong budgeting skills.
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills required.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities and an ability to prioritize, work and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Possess excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.
• Proficiency in English, written and oral is required. Ability to speak a local language is highly preferred. French is an asset. 
• Is willing to travel up to 40% of the time.
• A proactive, engaged and a self-starter with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.   
• Possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.
• Demonstrate a commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision. 

Application Closing Date: 20th April, 2023.

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