Senior Data-driven Strategy Consultant (Dutch and/or French speaking) in Waterloo, Belgium

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Data-driven Strategy Consultant (Dutch and/or French speaking)

Advisors & Consulting Services

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. 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.

Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges while our Performance Analytics consultants translate data into insights by leveraging Mastercard and customer data to design, implement, and scale analytical solutions for customers. They use qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques and enterprise applications to synthesize analyses into clear recommendations and impactful narratives.

This role is for our Strategy & Transformation track with a specific focus on analyzing Mastercard’s data assets for strategic decision making. We are looking for a passionate and talented professional, who shares our vision for data-driven consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team. As a Senior Data-driven Strategy Consultant, you will be a trusted client business advisor. 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 and industry expertise, be a resource to others to identify creative and efficient solutions and guide the team to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value.

Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard

Roles and Responsibilities

Client Impact

• Manage deliverable development and workstreams on projects across a range of industries and problem statements

• Contribute to and/or develop strategies and programs for large, regional, and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value

• Manage working relationship with client managers, and act as trusted and reliable partner

Team Collaboration & Culture

• Develop sound business recommendations and deliver effective client presentations

• Plan, organize, and structure own work and that of junior project delivery consultants to identify effective analysis structures to address client problems, synthesize analyses into relevant findings, and create impactful storylines

• Lead team and external meetings, and lead or co-lead project management

• Contribute to the firm’s intellectual capital and solution development

• Grow from coaching to enable ownership of day-to-day project management across client projects, and mentor junior consultants

Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, along with data analytics experience in business intelligence and/or descriptive, predictive, or prescriptive analytics.

• Ability to communicate effectively in English AND in Dutch and/ or French

• Experience with managing clients or internal stakeholders.

• Ability to analyze large datasets and synthesize key findings to provide recommendations based on Mastercard’s data assets

• Proficiency in data analysis and manipulation using SQL, Python, and/or R

• Logical, structured thinking

• Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills

• Ability to perform multiple tasks with multiple clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

• Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with big data tools such as Hadoop, Impala, Hive, Pyspark etc.

• Prior exposure to data visualization tools such as Tableau or PowerBI

• Experience managing tasks or workstreams in a collaborative team environment with third parties

• Experience coaching junior delivery consultants

• Relevant industry expertise

• MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required)

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.

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.