Supports project delivery from planning through completion by coordinating activities, tracking tasks and action items, maintaining project documentation, monitoring progress, escalating roadblocks, preparing status updates, and improving delivery processes. The graduate program provides training in project management, professional skills, Mastercard products, and delivery standards.
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, Product Delivery Launch Program 2027-Malaysia
Overview
Mastercard works to connect and power a sustainable and inclusive global economy. 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 in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities. We are looking for a passionate and talented young professional who shares our vision.
Launch Program
The Launch program is Mastercard's flagship Graduate Program for high potential fresh college and university graduates. You will participate in globally designed Global Bootcamp, professional skills workshops, social impact initiatives focused on bringing you up to speed in getting to know Mastercard, building your skills, and be a force for good (Mastercard's culture).
Role Description • Supports small to mid-size customer projects and learns how to manage projects from planning through delivery. • Helps coordinate day-to-day project activities and keeps project tasks on track.• Supports project meetings by taking notes, tracking action items, and following up with relevant team members.• Prepares and maintains project documents, such as timelines, checklists, process documents, FAQs, and lessons learned. • Seeks to proactively track project progress, identifies roadblocks, and raises them to the right people when support is needed. • Works with different teams and stakeholders to coordinate project activities and help resolve delivery issues. • Helps prepare clear project status updates for customers and internal stakeholders. • Takes ownership of improvements to project processes and ways of working to make delivery more efficient and effective. • Builds good working relationships with team members and stakeholders to support project delivery. • Learns the team's delivery processes, standards, products, and services by working closely with experienced team members.
All about you• Demonstrates a keen interest in developing a career in project management. • Basic understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) fundamentals, including Waterfall and Agile.• Proficient in AI and has established interest in exploring how AI tools can improve project delivery and day-to-day processes.• Enrolled in a full-time Bachelor's or Master's degree program with expected graduation date anytime from Nov 2026 to June 2027• This role is not eligible for Mastercard's work authorization 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:
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, Product Delivery Launch Program 2027-Malaysia
Overview
Mastercard works to connect and power a sustainable and inclusive global economy. 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 in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities. We are looking for a passionate and talented young professional who shares our vision.
Launch Program
The Launch program is Mastercard's flagship Graduate Program for high potential fresh college and university graduates. You will participate in globally designed Global Bootcamp, professional skills workshops, social impact initiatives focused on bringing you up to speed in getting to know Mastercard, building your skills, and be a force for good (Mastercard's culture).
Role Description • Supports small to mid-size customer projects and learns how to manage projects from planning through delivery. • Helps coordinate day-to-day project activities and keeps project tasks on track.• Supports project meetings by taking notes, tracking action items, and following up with relevant team members.• Prepares and maintains project documents, such as timelines, checklists, process documents, FAQs, and lessons learned. • Seeks to proactively track project progress, identifies roadblocks, and raises them to the right people when support is needed. • Works with different teams and stakeholders to coordinate project activities and help resolve delivery issues. • Helps prepare clear project status updates for customers and internal stakeholders. • Takes ownership of improvements to project processes and ways of working to make delivery more efficient and effective. • Builds good working relationships with team members and stakeholders to support project delivery. • Learns the team's delivery processes, standards, products, and services by working closely with experienced team members.
All about you• Demonstrates a keen interest in developing a career in project management. • Basic understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) fundamentals, including Waterfall and Agile.• Proficient in AI and has established interest in exploring how AI tools can improve project delivery and day-to-day processes.• Enrolled in a full-time Bachelor's or Master's degree program with expected graduation date anytime from Nov 2026 to June 2027• This role is not eligible for Mastercard's work authorization 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.
Mastercard Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
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