Mastercard Launch: Internship Programmes 2025 in South Africa
Job Highlights
Applications are now open for the Mastercard Launch: Internship Programmes 2025.
Location: Johannesburg South Africa
Job title: Associate Consultant, Launch Program 2025 -Johannesburg South Africa.
Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure.
You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you’ll launch your Mastercard career.
Job Purpose
As an Associate Consultant, 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.
About the Mastercard Launch Programme
Mastercard is looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share its vision for helping customers with their most urgent business needs.
Applicants must be available for start from 3rd March 2025.
Requirements
- To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than June 2024
- Citizenship Requirement: Applicants for this position must be a citizen of South Africa in order to be considered for this role.
Skills and Abilities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently
- High-energy, can-do attitude, very strong sense of ownership and desire to succeed with commensurate analytical, technical, and strategic skills
Key Competencies
Mastercard recruits 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. 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 or Business Experimentation tracks).
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.
How to Apply
In your cover letter, please indicate your first track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired track.
APPLY HERE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
Track placement will indicate the types of projects where you will spend the majority of your time, however, we encourage and enable working across tracks to allow team members to acquire a diverse set of skills and experiences.
To participate in our job simulation and experience what it’s like to work as a Consultant at Mastercard visit: https://www.theforage.com/simulations/mastercard/advisors-client-services-xvlw
