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.

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Business Opportunities 2024 Summer Internship Program, Budapest, Hungary

Apply for our Summer Internship program and spend your summer enhancing your skills, sharing your ideas and making a difference in the real world.

Opportunities in Account Management, Marketing, CSC Product- Business Segment, Acceptance Development, Retail & Commerce teams for 2024.

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment. Mastercard is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide, Mastercard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. You find more information on www.mastercardworldwide.com.

Mastercard Summer Internship Program
The Mastercard Summer Internship Program is a comprehensive 10-week program aimed at early career talent, where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives.

Successful interns also have the opportunity to secure a place of our Launch program upon graduating, which you can find out more about here.

Program components
o Challenging and impactful projects
o Networking, mentorship, and access to senior leaders
o Volunteer and team building experiences
o Participation in a global innovation challenge that could have material impact on Mastercard’s future
What you’ll do
Account Management, Marketing, CSC Product - Business Segment, Acceptance Development, Retail & Commerce teams for 2024. 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:
• Account Management:
Support the account manager in making client business review analysis, develop business presentations for customer meetings. You will participate in Account Manager's meeting supporting the Account Manager making meeting minutes. Learn to navigate in Salesforce (SFDC) sales pipeline management tool, creating CRM reports, and learn about end-to-end contract management process. You will learn how to solve customer challenges and issues and by doing so, how to navigate in a corporate environment in order to find solutions to these challenges across the organization (stakeholder management
Marketing: Performs business to business and business to consumer marketing on behalf of a partner; helps Mastercard marketing team to successfully deliver campaigns, events and other marketingcommunication activites ; supports sales teams win business via differentiated solutions.

• CSC Product - Business Segment:
Exploring the business segment, supporting the development of Mastercard Business Cards, and creating reports, competitor analysis, and market trends to support strategic planning.

• Acceptance Development:
Monitors, evaluates, and ensures quality and efficiency in all Mastercard customer interactions; analyzes and measures service level performance to achieve customer satisfaction. Get insights about the Mastercard core business/the 4 parties’ model and beyond. Explore development opportunities in specific segment(s) together with the Acceptance team. Influence the business development/Doppio 2025 strategy.

• Retail and Commerce:
Collaborate with segment lead, product development, and account management teams to build the sales pipeline. Connect with and secure new customers and partners to expand market reach. Offer insights to segment lead for long-term growth strategies, ensuring mutual profitability. Create business cases for development opportunities. Oversee customer contract agreements internally and externally. Evaluate and enhance the deal process.


What you’ll need
• To be available to work Full-time between Mid-June to End of August.
• To be a Penultimate Masters/Undergraduate Student, due to graduate no earlier than 2025
• Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
• Ability to partner across the organization.
• Sound communication skills.
• Expert PC skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access
• English required
• Additional languages a plus

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.