Specialist, Product Development

• Working with technology and data, contributes towards the development of strategies and programs for large, strategically important regional and global clients

• Independently identifies issues in defined area of analysis, structures analysis with oversight and synthesizes own analysis and identifies relevant implications

• Supports development of recommendations, and prepares presentations, and delivers them to clients

• Understands immediate clients needs and agenda to provide creative input into project

• Develops day-to-day working relationship with entry-level clients

• Identifies engagement risks in immediate area of responsibility

• Supports intellectual capital development from client work and incorporate insights from related intellectual capital/project initiatives

• Contributes to proposal preparation

• Identifies client challenges and brings ideas on opportunities to the attention of senior Mastercard Advisors staff

We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.

• Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills.

• Project Management: Clear interest in project delivery with business clients, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.

• Communication and Presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in client-facing situations, positioning Mastercard's solutions as high value solutions in sales and delivery conversations.

• Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.

• Integrity: Commitment to Mastercard's values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes.

• Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate or master's degree with experience in a consulting/analytics organization

• 2+ years of Experience in a consulting organization as a consultant

• Expertise on one or more of SQL, Python, Big data / Hadoop (Pyspark / ScalaSpark / SparkR), HQL, Hive, R

• Experience with one or more of Segmentation, Data modelling, Machine Learning / Deep Learning, Campaign insights, A/B testing, data-driven product development

• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges • Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or retail/eCommerce, BFSI merchants preferred

• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language(s) • Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with colleagues and clients

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

• Advanced Word, Excel, PowerPoint and data analytics skills

• 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.