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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Associate Managing Consultant
Ref No: R-79628 Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Directly Reports To: Principal, Business Development
Summary
MasterCard Advisors, the professional services arm of MasterCard Worldwide, provides payments-focused consulting, marketing, information and risk management services to financial institutions and merchants worldwide.
With its unique category expertise, deep understanding of customer needs and successful track record in addressing complex challenges throughout the payments lifecycle, MasterCard Advisors addresses the challenges and opportunities of its clients, enhances MasterCard's strategic and tactical performance and establishes MasterCard's global thought-leadership pre-eminence.
Role Description and Major Responsibilities
Support business development in either follow-on or new sales by assisting with development of sales presentations and proposals; enter and manage in salesforce.com as needed, including:
Participate in internal and external meetings to scope and price client engagements
Development of Statement of Work (SOWs) and other sales support materials
Help present SOWs to mid-level clients and respond to follow up questions
Keep internal stakeholders informed
Manage and facilitate internal and client process to execute SOWs and agreement
Help maintain sales pipeline and reports
Consulting engagement delivery, interact with mid- to senior- level clients and internal partners. Rigorously and logically identify issues covering entire client problem, including:
Generate hypotheses and independently structure work at a stream level
Perform sophisticated, hypotheses-driven analysis with broad oversight
Thoroughly check own work
Draw well-integrated conclusions and insights
Construct storylines at the work stream level
Engage audience with verbal communications and presentations
Deliver presentations
Identify engagement risks in stream
Develop effective working relationships with mid-level client management
Build peer relationships with key team members to identify opportunities to broaden relationships
Engage in client communications with client peer group within the framework of the overall communications strategy
Proactively seek opportunities to support proposal preparation
Identify client challenges and formulate ideas on opportunities to leverage MasterCard Advisors capabilities, surfacing these to senior Advisors staff
Actively contributes to Special Interest Groups by participating in creating points of view, articles, methodologies
Proactively seeks opportunities to lead small projects
Actively contribute to Knowledge Center and other internal databases as required
Education, Qualifications and Experience
Education Needed:
Undergraduate degree required
MBA or relevant post graduate degree recommended
Experience and Skills Needed:
If no graduate degree, 2+ years in a management consulting firm and/or 7+ years in relevant industry
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent analytical skills
Ability to work on a team or independently
Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
Attention to detail
Languages:
English required / French an asset
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online