Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a
culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Mastercard Graduate Launch Program 2023 – (Athens, Greece) Account Management
We believe that opportunity is for all of us.
This is Mastercard Launch.
Who are Mastercard?
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment. Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders, and merchants worldwide, Mastercard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. You find more information on www.mastercardworldwide.com.
Mastercard Launch
There are some skills you can teach. And some you can inspire. Mastercard Launch gives recent graduates both—immersing emerging talent in an 18-month journey where they will challenge the status quo, engage in meaningful and practical sessions, drive Decency and Belonging, our mission to be a Force for Good and be the ultimate catalyst for personal and professional growth. The Launch program is for change makers, those who dare to be greater and who wish to make a real impact on the world. We invite you to bring your passion, share your talent and make the most of this truly Priceless experience.
What it is
An 18-month program that educates, inspires personal growth, and builds professional confidence to create a Priceless career with Mastercard. Launch will include development opportunities such as:
• Professional skills learning
• Business-driven rotations or experiences
• Networking and career conversations
• A capstone final project
You will have the opportunity to work with your peers on various business projects which aim to provide enhanced work experience outside of your day-to-day role.
You will work with our dedicated leaders–successful managers and executives who inspire, mentor, and coach others toward successful careers here at Mastercard.
What you’ll do
Mastercard has been driving digital transformation to spread new payment solutions. During the last few years, Mastercard supported the creation, launch and implementation of numerous solutions to give the opportunity to its cardholder to use their preferred device to make payments. Mastercard provides solutions based on the latest technologies, such as Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, to its clients and partners for secure, fast, and simple payments.
Account Management team connects Mastercard with banks, financial institutions, and other industry partners to provide best in class solutions for digital payments.
With this growth in mind Mastercard is now recruiting a new graduate launcher within the account management team. The role will require you to work with the functional teams to achieve the market objectives in these areas through the identified deliverables below.
Major accountabilities:
- Participate in meetings with executives from banks and fintech
- Conduct research & analysis to support in the development of business strategies
- Use analytical and problem-solving skills to deliver insights and identify business development opportunities
- Support in projects and team meetings and actively contribute to presentations; that will be used internally and with customers
- Work collaboratively across various internal teams to support a variety of business initiatives ranging from account planning, revenue projection & business reviews etc.
- Assist with monthly updates for management reporting
This role provides a breadth of learning, end to end & cross functional exposure within Mastercard:
- From understanding our account portfolio and business strategy
- Partner with a strong team to win negotiations with our customers, banks and merchants to gain market share and
- Be part of strategy, product, customer value proposition development
What you’ll need
- To available to start from 4th September 2023
- A final year Bachelor’s degree Student, due to graduate between Dec-2022 to August 2023, with a minimum predicted classification of a UK 2.1 or USA equivalent GPA of 3.0.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Energetic outlook with excellent interpersonal skills
- Enterprising individual with an analytical and problem-solving skills along with a strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
- Attention to detail with ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently
- Proficient in using Microsoft office suite
- Languages: English and Greek to professional standard
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.
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