Graduate Launch Program 2025, Sales Analyst & Business Development - Athens, Greece-R-228712

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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Graduate Launch Program 2025, Sales Analyst & Business Development - Athens, Greece

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. 

Mastercard Launch 

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. Launchers will undertake 2x 9-month rotations to gain a broaden skillset and exposure to the business and different career opportunities.

The role 

Please specify if you have a preferred function as part of your application or if you are open to all. This information will be leveraged to best match applicants to the most suitable role. 

Sales Analyst

• Uses analytical and problem-solving skills to provide analyses and solutions that satisfy business needs and inform strategy development  
• Leverages data tools to develop revenue and expense benchmarks and performance trends  
• Assists with creating sales presentations, proposals and internal business case development  
• Works collaboratively across various internal teams to support a variety of business initiatives  
  
  
  

Business Development  

• Assists with the development of a sales pipeline in coordination with product development and account management teams  
• Helps prepare for and participates in conversations with key decision makers about product opportunities  
• Analyses customers’ existing business through profitability modelling, financial forecasting and competitive analysis  
• Supports existing business development relationships (e.g., government, regulators, industry bodies)  
  
  
  

What you’ll need   

• To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than Summer 2024 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills    
• 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   
  
  
  

  

Languages:  

• 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.
  
  
  

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