Associate Analyst, Business Development Launch Graduate Program 2025

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

Associate Analyst, Business Development Launch Graduate Program 2025 - Thailand

Who is Mastercard?
We are the 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.

The Mastercard Launch program is aimed at early career talent, to help you develop skills and gain cross-functional work experience. Over a period of 18 months, Launch participants will be assigned to a business unit, learn and develop skills, and gain valuable on the job experience.

**Job Description**:

- Align to Mastercard business operation model and core business
- Structure and implement the marketing research about payment industry status with insights
- Cross-border business status, including inbound and outbound, face to face and ecommerce
- Conduct gap analysis on Business Development Team’s readiness for developing new business, from relationship and integration with other Mastercard assets
- Propose the action plan to help the team to gear up
- Set up guideline regarding how to identify business opportunities

All about you:

- Expected graduation Nov/Dec 2024 to July 2025
- Students pursuing a bachelor’s degree or above (all majors welcome to apply)
- You possess the right to work in Thailand, and do not require work visa sponsorship

Key Competencies:

- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong strategic and conceptual aptitude
- Proven team player with excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple projects concurrently
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Experience and Skills needed:

- Well-rounded individual with significant extracurricular involvement
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to work on a team and independently
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Attention to detail

Languages:

- English required
- Local office language (Thai)

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.