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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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

Title and Summary

Mastercard 2025 Graduate Launch Program, Istanbul, Türkiye – Business Opportunities

We believe that opportunity is for all of us.

This is Mastercard Launch.

Opportunities include Account Management, and Product & Solutions.

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

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.

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

A permanent opportunity but dedicated to 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

What you’ll do

There are Launch opportunities in Account Management, and Product and Solutions for 2025. Please highlight if you have a particular preference in your CV, otherwise based on your profile you would be matched to the role seen to best align with your skillset:

Account Management

Responsible from account management of local players (banks, non-financial institutions, FinTech) for managing the relationships with these players, this involves working with cross functional teams through Mastercard to facilitate the sales of additional products and services.

• Assist Account Managers to complete routine business processes

• Create materials for contracts, agreement, pitching/presentation deck under Account Managers’ guidance

• Support Account Managers execute initiatives across multiple business functions

• Support Account Leads on team activity management and performance tracking

• Ensure up-to-date with the market and industry development, contribute ideas to enhance Mastercard competitive edge

• Support internal data research and analysis in weekly and monthly base for key accounts

• Support documentations by preparing for contracts and assisting in processing data for customer review materials

Product and Solutions

• Partners cooperatively in a team environment to support execution of corporate product strategy within assigned regions and segment

• Researches, analyses and interprets regional and local market trends and customer performance to ensure optimal level of operations

• Seeks to learn drivers of product stakeholder priorities/preferences and how to bring new insights to own team.

• Brings the voice of customer back to the product development and implementation team and participates in the product prioritization decision making process

• Delivers proposals to customers on how our product portfolio can improve overall Mastercard value proposition

• Perform project management duties, creating and documenting processes, developing timelines, and beyond.

• Communicate across key stakeholders to implement action plans to support the business.

• Assist with ad hoc requests, participate in special projects as required, and provide cross-functional support as needed.

• Shows eagerness to learn new business knowledge, technologies, tools or systems

What you’ll need

• To be available for start on 3rd of March 2025 or 1st of September 2025.

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with an expected graduation date between Dec 2024-July 2025

• 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

• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively – both verbally and in writing – in English and Turkish

This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in Türkiye, now as well as in the future, without employer sponsorship.

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.