Associate Consultant – Graduate Programme 2027 – Mastercard

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 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.

Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Closing Date: 05/11/2026

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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 two specialization tracks that make up our team (Strategy & Transformation and Marketing). 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.

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.

NB: In your CV, please indicate your first track preference. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants with their desired track.

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Requirements

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date in November 2026 – August 2027
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English
• Must be available to start in March or September 2027

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How to Apply

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