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Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation - Credit Card Modeling SME Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations.
As a Senior Managing Consultant and P&L Optimization SME, you will help issuers and payments clients quantify product economics and make high-stakes decisions across card portfolios (consumer, small business, and commercial). You will lead teams that transform client data into clear insights, build defensible P&L and business case models, and translate analysis into executive-ready recommendations and storylines.
Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact
- Lead complex client engagements across a range of industries and problem statements
- Direct the development of strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value
- Interface with client executives and functional leaders across product, finance, marketing, credit risk, loyalty, and operations to achieve commercial success
- Serve as a trusted, credible client business advisor and generate enthusiasm for the Mastercard team and our recommendations
- Lead end-to-end profitability and business casing engagements for credit card products, including new product launches and portfolio optimization.
- Guide development of client-ready P&L and business case models with documented assumptions and sensitivities
- Synthesize quantitative and qualitative analyses into clear recommendations; craft executive-ready storylines and slides that drive decisions.
- Direct client data requests; oversee data transformation, validation, and analysis to identify the drivers of revenue, cost, risk, and retention.
- Evaluate strategic options such as co-brand and loyalty constructs, value proposition changes, channel strategies, and agent banking considerations where relevant.
Team Collaboration & Culture
- Guide team through complex problem solving to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value
- Motivate the project delivery team to produce superior quality deliverables, and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all levels
- Own relationship with internal Mastercard stakeholders including Product and Business Development to scope projects, create relevant solutions for clients, and build the firm's intellectual capital
- Lead on-the-job training, coaching, and mentorship to both direct and outside team members
- Team enablement through templates, playbooks, and coaching
- Support business development and account teams to shape scope, value proposition, and commercial conversations
- Improve the consistency and defensibility of modeling assumptions, documentation, and QA across the team.
- Coach and develop junior team members through structured feedback and on-the-job training.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in credit card product performance and profitability modeling across products (consumer, small business, and commercial), credit segments, and acquisition channels
- Deep understanding of key profitability drivers, how to evaluate a P&L for strategic risks and opportunities, and the card issuance value chain (including product management, marketing, credit risk policy/strategy, and operations)
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities to structure ambiguous problems, develop pragmatic hypotheses, and lead the team to actionable, client-ready recommendations.
- Strong quantitative skills, financial/statistical/data analysis skills, and attention to detail.
- Able to proactively identify opportunities to expand impact through P&L optimization, cross-sell, and strong partnership with Services commercial teams.
- Strong communication & presence to be able to communicate complex analysis clearly in writing and in executive discussions; create compelling storylines that position Mastercard as a high-value partner with mid and executive-level client stakeholders
- Strong project management discipline to lead delivery across multiple workstreams—scope, timeline, team cadence, and quality—while being able to anticipate risks and manage stakeholders.
- Proven people and delivery leadership across multiple projects; ability to multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Undergraduate degree with work experience in corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, business finance, and/or product management
- Experience generating new knowledge or creating innovative solutions
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Word skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)
- Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs
- Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency with checking and debit products and related operations
- Experience in a management consulting environment
- Competency using statistical procedures and segmentation approaches in financial analysis
- MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required)
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.
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Managing Consultant, Advisors & Consulting Services, Strategy & Transformation - Credit Card Modeling SME Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard’s rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client’s overall strategy, performance, and operations.
As a Senior Managing Consultant and P&L Optimization SME, you will help issuers and payments clients quantify product economics and make high-stakes decisions across card portfolios (consumer, small business, and commercial). You will lead teams that transform client data into clear insights, build defensible P&L and business case models, and translate analysis into executive-ready recommendations and storylines.
Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/consulting-specializations-at-mastercard
Roles and Responsibilities
Client Impact
- Lead complex client engagements across a range of industries and problem statements
- Direct the development of strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value
- Interface with client executives and functional leaders across product, finance, marketing, credit risk, loyalty, and operations to achieve commercial success
- Serve as a trusted, credible client business advisor and generate enthusiasm for the Mastercard team and our recommendations
- Lead end-to-end profitability and business casing engagements for credit card products, including new product launches and portfolio optimization.
- Guide development of client-ready P&L and business case models with documented assumptions and sensitivities
- Synthesize quantitative and qualitative analyses into clear recommendations; craft executive-ready storylines and slides that drive decisions.
- Direct client data requests; oversee data transformation, validation, and analysis to identify the drivers of revenue, cost, risk, and retention.
- Evaluate strategic options such as co-brand and loyalty constructs, value proposition changes, channel strategies, and agent banking considerations where relevant.
Team Collaboration & Culture
- Guide team through complex problem solving to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value
- Motivate the project delivery team to produce superior quality deliverables, and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all levels
- Own relationship with internal Mastercard stakeholders including Product and Business Development to scope projects, create relevant solutions for clients, and build the firm's intellectual capital
- Lead on-the-job training, coaching, and mentorship to both direct and outside team members
- Team enablement through templates, playbooks, and coaching
- Support business development and account teams to shape scope, value proposition, and commercial conversations
- Improve the consistency and defensibility of modeling assumptions, documentation, and QA across the team.
- Coach and develop junior team members through structured feedback and on-the-job training.
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in credit card product performance and profitability modeling across products (consumer, small business, and commercial), credit segments, and acquisition channels
- Deep understanding of key profitability drivers, how to evaluate a P&L for strategic risks and opportunities, and the card issuance value chain (including product management, marketing, credit risk policy/strategy, and operations)
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities to structure ambiguous problems, develop pragmatic hypotheses, and lead the team to actionable, client-ready recommendations.
- Strong quantitative skills, financial/statistical/data analysis skills, and attention to detail.
- Able to proactively identify opportunities to expand impact through P&L optimization, cross-sell, and strong partnership with Services commercial teams.
- Strong communication & presence to be able to communicate complex analysis clearly in writing and in executive discussions; create compelling storylines that position Mastercard as a high-value partner with mid and executive-level client stakeholders
- Strong project management discipline to lead delivery across multiple workstreams—scope, timeline, team cadence, and quality—while being able to anticipate risks and manage stakeholders.
- Proven people and delivery leadership across multiple projects; ability to multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Undergraduate degree with work experience in corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, business finance, and/or product management
- Experience generating new knowledge or creating innovative solutions
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Word skills
- Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)
- Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs
- Ability to travel to client sites on a semi-regular basis
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency with checking and debit products and related operations
- Experience in a management consulting environment
- Competency using statistical procedures and segmentation approaches in financial analysis
- MBA or master’s degree with relevant specialization (not required)
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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- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in managing principal consultant jobs.
- 10 or more years of management consulting or related professional services experience
- Demonstrated experience leading client engagements and managing project teams end to end
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred
- Proven ability to develop client relationships and contribute to business development
- Deep expertise in at least one industry vertical such as financial services, healthcare, or technology
- Experience with structured problem-solving frameworks and executive-level communication and presentation skills
Tips for Your Managing Principal Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to engagement scope
Hiring managers for managing principal consultant roles want to see the size and complexity of engagements you led, not just your job duties. Quantify client impact, team size, and revenue influenced on every bullet rather than listing responsibilities.
Highlight your business development contributions
Many firms expect managing principal consultants to originate or expand client relationships. Call out proposals you authored, accounts you grew, and the dollar value of work you helped bring in, even if business development was not your primary title.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists managing principal consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target firms by practice alignment
Filter openings by the practice area or industry vertical where your deepest client experience sits. A managing principal consultant with ten years in financial services will be a weaker candidate at a pure healthcare practice than at a firm whose model matches your background.
Prepare a client story for every interview stage
Expect case-based and behavioral rounds that probe how you structured ambiguous problems, managed senior stakeholders, and delivered under pressure. Prepare two or three detailed client stories you can adapt to different competency questions without sounding scripted.
Negotiate against the full compensation package
Offers at this level often include performance bonuses, profit-sharing, signing amounts, and professional development budgets that vary widely between firms. Know which components matter most to you before the offer conversation so you can negotiate each one clearly.
Managing Principal Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most managing principal consultants?
The companies hiring the most managing principal consultants right now include Mastercard, Ramboll, and Principal Financial, with the largest share of openings in Massachusetts, California, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is strongest at large strategy and technology consulting firms, as well as at financial services companies that run internal consulting practices.
How many managing principal consultant jobs are remote?
About 70% of managing principal consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with the remainder requiring regular client site or office presence. Sub-specializations focused on digital strategy, organizational design, and technology program management tend to have the highest share of remote-eligible roles compared to on-site operational or transformation engagements.
How do you become a managing principal consultant?
Most managing principal consultants build their path by starting in an analyst or associate consultant role at a consulting firm, earning progressively larger engagement responsibilities, and developing a specialization in an industry or functional area. Advancing to the managing principal level typically requires consistent client delivery, demonstrated ability to lead and develop junior staff, and a track of contributing to new business. An MBA from a recognized program accelerates promotion at many firms, though direct industry expertise can substitute at specialized boutiques.
Can you get hired as a managing principal consultant without prior consulting experience?
It is uncommon to enter at the managing principal consultant level without some consulting background, but firms do hire experienced industry executives into equivalent principal roles when their domain expertise is deep enough. If you're coming from a corporate strategy, finance, or operations leadership role, emphasize client-facing projects, cross-functional team leadership, and any work where you shaped recommendations rather than executed directives. Boutique and niche firms are generally more open to non-traditional backgrounds than large generalist consultancies.
What does the managing principal consultant interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to five rounds and combines behavioral interviews, case studies, and stakeholder fit conversations. Early rounds often include a resume review and a screening call with a recruiter or talent team. Later rounds involve case presentations, client scenario role-plays, and meetings with partners or senior leadership who assess your ability to manage complex engagements and develop business. Some firms add a written case or strategy presentation as a final step before an offer.
Where can I find and apply to managing principal consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to managing principal consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and practice area focus, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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