Associate Consultant Intern, Internship Program 2026, Warsaw, Poland Mastercard Services

Associate Consultant Intern, Internship Program 2026, Warsaw, Poland

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.

Mastercard Services 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. Advisors team is a key differentiator, providing cutting-edge consulting services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base – partners of Mastercard. We combine traditional management consulting with our rich data assets and in-house technology to provide our clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations.

Make an Impact as an Associate Consultant Intern

The Internship is a 6-month program aimed at early career top 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 have a chance to thrive in an international environment and learn problem solving skills and rudiments of consulting craft. As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will collaborate with exceptional colleagues to help some of the world’s biggest brands answer their most challenging strategic questions. Working with technology and data, you will gain broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, e-commerce and more. Successful interns also have the opportunity to secure a place in Mastercard Launch program upon graduation. Mastercard Launch is an 18-month global program providing recent Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates with development opportunities and exposure.

As an Associate Consultant Intern, you will:

• Solve our clients’ most challenging strategic and tactical problems

• Collaborate with and learn from exceptional colleagues

• Work with technology and data gaining broad exposure to a range of industries, including financial services, retail, e-commerce and more

• Begin to build relationships with clients to understand their business needs, seek strategic solutions and guide impactful decisions

• Grow by receiving hands-on mentorship from an experienced management team

• Have an opportunity for meaningful contributions on both professional level and a range of volunteering initiatives embedded into Mastercard Way

• Collaborate with colleagues across different areas of the organization and gain exposure to business development, account management, and product management

We are looking for passionate, self-driven and talented professionals, who share our vision for helping our clients with their most urgent business needs. We are recruiting for 3 career tracks:

I. Strategy & Transformation: Lead clients through sound decision making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational challenges, spanning across diverse topics including product, segmentation, marketing, loyalty, innovation and more. Apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve overall performance and operations.

II. Marketing: Develop strategies and lead implementation of sales support and BTL marketing campaigns and engagements; evaluate results to drive performance on behalf of Mastercard’s clients. Provide deep direct marketing expertise across channels, leveraging customer, behavioural and transactional data and defining tangible results to both the client and Mastercard.

III. Performance Analytics: Use quantitative and qualitative skills and enterprise applications to drive data-led consulting solutions for customers. Weave together vast amounts Mastercard, client & 3rd party data assets to investigate trends, build propensity models, develop data visualizations, and synthesize millions of data points into a cohesive story. Engage with client stakeholders through virtual and in-person meetings, leveraging insights to inform strategic recommendations.

Bring your Passion and Expertise. We recruit for and value the following core competencies:

• Passion: actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients

• Analytic Excellence: demonstrates a strong aptitude for structured problem solving and quantitative skills

• Business Interest: clear interest in the world of business, and intuition for the way that companies make decisions

• Rapid Growth: eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard’s structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities

• Teamwork: willingness to work within small teams to produce outstanding deliverables, with a will to win attitude

• Integrity: commitment to Mastercard’s values of honesty and integrity with a willingness to embrace and learn from our mistakes

• Diverse Perspective: brings a unique skillset or approach to the table in every client engagement or internal activity

• Communication: excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated leadership abilities

• Project Management: responsibly handling a few tasks at once, diligently managing the given area of project’s interests

What you’ll need:

• To be available to work full time, between February to July (at least 3 days a week from the office in Warsaw)

• Undergraduate or master’s degree with a target graduation date between May 2026 - September 2026

• Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking

• Outstanding record of academic achievement

• Proven record of leadership potential in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities

• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English. Proficiency in additional languages—such as German, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, or others—is considered a strong asset.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Application Process:

1. Submit your application

2. If eligible to advance, complete digital interview; this includes answering pre-recorded interview questions

3. If eligible to advance, complete language check (for your stated second foreign languages); this includes online coffee chat with Mastercard employee

4. If eligible to advance, receive invitation for final round interviews which include strategic business case assessment; you will also meet us to learn more about our business, team and culture

This role is not eligible for Mastercard’s work authorization sponsorship. As such, candidates must be eligible to work in Poland, 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.