Associate Consultant Intern, Summer 2027 – Saudi Arabia

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 Intern, Summer 2027 – Saudi Arabia Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining Why join Mastercard’s internship program?  Mastercard's internship program offers more than hands-on work. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities.  About the team  Mastercard’s Advisors & Consulting Services (A&CS) team 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.  What you’ll do  As an Associate Consultant Intern, 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 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.  You will:  Work in small teams to support strategic consulting projects across industries  Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management  Analyze data, identify trends, and help translate insights into recommendations  Create clear and compelling presentations for internal teams and clients   Support problem solving by structuring challenges and exploring solutions   Build an understanding of how consulting engagements are delivered end to end  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    Specialization Tracks  We are looking for passionate and talented professionals who share our vision for helping our customers with their most urgent business needs. We are recruiting five specialization 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.    Business Experimentation  Leverage Mastercard's industry-leading predictive analytics platform, Test & Learn®, and SQL to run data-backed business experiments for our clients. Consultants focus on data science-based solutions to provide insights on various business initiatives, including product launches, marketing campaigns, customer loyalty, and pricing across various industries that touch many Fortune 500 companies. Partner directly with clients to share findings and help determine which ideas are effective, as well as where, when, and how to implement them.  Sampling of questions we help our customers answer:  Where should a retailer open new stores to maximize profitability and minimize the cannibalization of nearby omnichannel sales?  What bonus should be provided to someone opening a credit card account to entice them to use the card regularly?    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 mod

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