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Business Opportunities, Launch Graduate Program 2025 - Budapest, Hungary

Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global development program providing recent graduates with opportunities and exposure. You will not only enhance your professional growth and skills in a global setting, you'll launch your Mastercard career.

What you'll do
There are Launch opportunities in Account Management, Business Development, Business Intelligence & Finance, and Fintech for 2025. Please highlight if you have a particular preference in your CV and Cover Letter, otherwise based on your profile you would be matched to the role seen to best align with your skillset:

1.Account Management - financial institutions:

Works with representatives of banks in executing joint initiatives related to developing card products, running usage activation campaings, developing new services. Support senior account managers in internal data analysis, preparation for customer meetings, writing presentations.
Participates in creation of sales incentive offers for banks.
Joins account managers in socialising with customers at out of office occasions; sponsorship events, concerts. Brings an outside-in view to find answers to banks' painpoints and requests for new products and services.
Interacts with other departments in realtion to operational tasks with the customers; invoicing, fulfilment of Mastercard licensing requirements, tracking of spends wihtin incentive agreements.

2.Business Development with focus on Slovenia

Product & Solutions team, focusing on Digital Payments for the Hungarian and Slovenian Cluster. Based in Budapest, the role will primarily concentrate on the Slovenian market, driving innovation by launching new products and services to meet evolving customer needs. As part of a dynamic and diverse team of business leaders, product managers, and technical experts, you'll play a key role in supporting product development, conducting market research, and collaborating with cross-functional teams across Delivery, Marketing, and Sales to ensure the smooth execution of projects. Your responsibilities will involve assisting in various stages of product development, from research and design to testing and implementation, as well as gathering and analyzing data to inform product decisions. You'll also be conducting market research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscapes, helping shape effective product strategies. This role offers valuable hands-on experience in the digital payments industry, and we're looking for someone with a strong interest in financial services, basic experience in data analytics, and the ability to work well in teams within an international matrix environment. You'll need to be results-driven, eager to learn new markets and technologies, and able to see where innovations can be used to achieve business goals.

3.Business Intelligence & Finance

As a Business Intelligence and Finance Launcher, you will provide ongoing support and insights to the local team by analyzing transactional and financial data. Your focus will be on projects such as campaign efficiency tracking, strategic analysis, dashboard development, data cleansing, exploring new business opportunities, pricing modeling, and financial tracking. Strong Excel skills, eagerness to learn, and the ability to work independently and proactively are essential. This role offers the chance to gain a deep understanding of the payments industry, fulfill your university's mandatory internship program, and work in a high-end office in downtown Budapest.

4.Fintech

As a Fintech Launch Program Candidate, you will play a key role in our Central European Fintech team, supporting business development with Fintech and platform partners in the Hungarian and Slovenian markets. You'll focus on creating solutions for multinational clients, assisting your manager in achieving P&L goals by developing business cases, driving customer negotiations, and executing strategies. You'll need a technological mindset, strong relationship-building skills, and the drive to create innovative payment solutions.

In this role, you'll learn and grow in a fast-paced environment, build trusted relationships with clients, develop competitive solutions, and contribute to revenue generation. You'll also support the continuous development of strategic frameworks for the Central European market, aiming to hit sales targets, expand Mastercard's footprint, and manage future service pipelines. A background in technology or e-/m-Commerce is helpful, as well as business acumen to deliver solutions that meet customer needs. You'll be based in Budapest, with some travel required.

What you'll need
• To be available for start from 3rd March 2025
• To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than September 2024
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in both English and Hungarian
• 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

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.