Associate Consultant, Launch Program 2027 – Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Postula como Associate Consultant en el Programa de Lanzamiento 2027 de Mastercard, sede en Buenos Aires.

Trabaja con marcas globales, lidera proyectos de estrategia, análisis y marketing, y desarrolla tu carrera en la consultoría.

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

Associate Consultant, Launch Program 2027 – Buenos Aires, ArgentinaAt Mastercard, our Advisors & Consulting Services (ACS) group helps clients drive impact through data-driven insights, hands‑on implementation, and a collaborative, tech‑enabled culture. We invest in talent through global engagements, continuous learning, and programs like the Global Ambassadors Program, while fostering purpose through volunteerism, pro‑bono work, and innovation that benefits both clients and communities.

Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant

As an Associate Consultant, you will collaborate within small teams to help some of the world’s biggest brands answer and 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.

Specialization Tracks

We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs, and we are recruiting for three career tracks that make up our team. Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend most of your time; however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire diverse skills and experiences.

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: o How can a global financial services institution be successful at entering a hyper competitive new market? o 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.
• • Sampling of questions we help our customers answer: o How does a financial institution’s fraud/authorization metrics fare against competitors, and what are strategies that can help it be best‑in‑class? o How is a technology customer’s market share changing over time, and are there any segments where the client is relatively under penetrated?
• • Team members typically support several customers concurrently, and include both short and long term projects that can last anywhere from 4 weeks up to 1 year.

Marketing

• • Develop strategies and lead implementation of marketing campaigns and engagements; evaluate results to drive performance on behalf of Mastercard’s clients. Provide deep direct marketing expertise across channels, leveraging customer, behavioral and transactional data and defining tangible results to both the client and Mastercard.
• • Sampling of questions we help our clients answer: o How does a fintech client optimize new customer acquisition and existing customers’ life cycle value through effective targeting and communications? o How does a retail client drive foot traffic into store post‑covid and/or optimize their ecommerce website to increase basket‑size and average spend per customer? o How can a large financial institution best execute on a portfolio conversion – for example, after purchasing another issuer’s portfolio – including components like internal and external communications, market launch, and more?
• • Team members typically support 1‑3 projects from any domain and build fundamental marketing and consulting toolkit.

Bring your Passion and Expertise

• • Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
• • Analytic Excellence: Demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills. Experience using data analysis or querying tools (e.g., SQL, SAS, Excel or Tableau) is an asset (particularly for Performance Analytics track).
• • Business Interest: Clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions.
• • Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard’s structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
• • Teamwork: Willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude.
• • Integrity: Outstanding record of academic achievement. Commitment to Mastercard’s values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from mistakes.
• • Diverse Perspective: Brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity.
• • Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications:

Graduated or expecting graduation between Dec 2025 and March 2027 Outstanding record of academic achievement Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem‑solving skills Ability to communicate ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and the local office language(s)

**** Program starting in January 2027 (Full time /Hybrid Model)

**** Program starting in January 2027 (Full time /Hybrid Model)

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.