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Consultant Intern, 2025 - India

Consultant Intern - 2025 

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 provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. 

Make an Impact as a Consultant Intern 

As a Consultant Intern, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world's biggest brands answer and often implement solutions for their most challenging strategic questions. You will immediately create meaningful contributions through taking ownership of deliverables and building external relationships with clients. Focusing on technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, restaurants, hospitality and more. 

As a Consultant Intern, you will: 
• Participate in volunteer and team building experiences 
• Gain exposure to our leadership team through networking sessions and speaker series 
• Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions 
• Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team. 
• Have an opportunity for meaningful contributions 
• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management 

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business need. We are recruiting for 2 career tracks that make up our team:

Strategy & Transformation 

Guide clients through strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges to enhance performance and operations. Our engagements cover diverse areas, including product development, marketing, customer loyalty, and innovation. Working with clients from various industries, many S&T engagements directly interface with numerous Fortune 500 companies. This role aligns with the practices of traditional management consulting firms. 

Sampling of questions we help our customers answer: 

How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a hyper competitive new market? 

How can a customer improve its operating model to better achieve operational, financial and strategic goals? 

Team members typically support 1-3 projects concurrently, with each project lasting for approximately 8-16 weeks. 

Performance Analytics 

Use quantitative and qualitative skills and enterprise applications (e.g., Business Intelligence Platforms, SQL, Python, and more) to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers. Weave together vast amounts Mastercard, client & 3rd party data assets to investigate trends, build propensity models, develop data visualizations, and synthesize millions of data points into a cohesive story. Engage with client stakeholders through virtual and in-person meetings, leveraging insights to inform strategic recommendations.