Jr. Project Manager

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

Jr. Project Manager (German Speaker)

Junior Project Manager
- Are you a strategic thinker?
- Do you welcome challenges and have a solution-oriented mindset?
- Do you thrive taking over responsibility in teams and partnering with clients to drive innovation, impact, and value?

If so, Mastercard Data & Services is looking for people like you to join our growing team in Vienna. Reach out to us to find out more about the engaging and impactful career opportunities in consulting with Mastercard’s Data & Services team
The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. We combine top tier management consulting with our rich data assets, in-house technology, and payment expertise to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. 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 are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for impactful consulting, to join us and take a leading role in shaping the growth of our team.

Make an Impact as an Associate Managing Consultant / Jr. Project Manager

As an Associate Managing Consultant, you will have the opportunity to lead key client engagements and diverse projects in the financial services and payment industry and gain unique insights into the digital innovation roadmap of various clients and Mastercard in Austria and broader Europe. An Associate Managing Consultant in our team:

- Generates key hypotheses and independently structures workstreams for large, strategically important regional and global clients
- Oversees the day-to-day work of the project Delivery team, identifying creative and useful analyses to address client problems, synthesize analyses into clear, sound recommendations, and create effective, impactful storylines and slides
- Identifies client challenges beyond the day-to-day work with a client and develops structured solution approaches to address these challenges
- Is responsible for building strong relationships with mid-level client management and independently assessing client agenda, internal culture, and change readiness

In leading the problem-solving process to drive high-value decisions, you will also have the opportunity to mentor junior teammates and contribute to the firm's intellectual capital and solution development. 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.

Bring your Passion and Expertise

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 or work experience after completing your undergraduate degree
- Experience in a consulting organization working as a senior consultant/junior project manager
- Experience directly managing multiple people across multiple workstreams
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills and ability to structure analyses to form data-driven solutions to ambiguous client challenges
- Proven conflict management skills and confidence in managing ambiguity on projects
- Exposure specifically in payments and / or retail banking or 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