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Global Markets Launch Graduate Rotational Program 2027 - Associate Product Specialist & Associate Analyst, Account Management- Dubai, UAE (UAE Nationals Preferred)
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Global Markets Launch Graduate Rotational Program 2027 - Associate Product Specialist & Associate Analyst, Account Management- Dubai, UAE (UAE Nationals Preferred)
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An 18-month graduate rotational program in Mastercard’s Global Markets business, featuring rotations across sales and business development, product management, solutions, and account management. Participants support strategic sales planning, consultative selling, product expertise, customer insights, project coordination, implementation planning, and commercial initiatives. The role requires strong communication, leadership potential, rapid learning, and the ability to deliver high-quality recommendations and results.
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
Global Markets Launch Graduate Rotational Program 2027 - Associate Product Specialist & Associate Analyst, Account Management- Dubai, UAE (UAE Nationals Preferred)
Why join Mastercard's Launch Program?
Throughout this 18-month program, you'll develop the ability to connect ideas, people, and markets to drive commercial impact. Through hands-on experiences, cross-functional projects, and structured learning opportunities, you'll gain exposure to multiple areas of Mastercard's business while building broad business acumen and a global perspective. You'll collaborate with teams across functions, contribute to strategic initiatives, and strengthen the skills needed to solve complex business challenges. This experience will help you build a well-rounded commercial mindset and prepare you for a variety of career paths across Mastercard's global organization.
Global Markets
This role is part of the Global Markets business unit, which offers a unique opportunity to experience 2 x nine-month rotations across curated career tracks, designed to enrich and diversify the Launch of your career, alongside enhancing your professional growth as part of the Global program that owns this initiative.
Career Track 1. Sales and Business Development
As part of our Sales and Business Development track, you can expect to focus on strategic sales planning and consultative and solution selling.
These teams provide:
Product expertise and help leverage Mastercard integrated solutions to drive sales and revenue goals
Is responsible for setting sales strategies as it relates to products that are aligned with geographical strategy and help identify and close sales leads
Market intelligence to product developers and managers to support design, development and implementation efforts
Career Track 2. Product Management and Solutions
As part of our Product Management and Solutions track, you can expect to focus on user experience, product performance and ongoing management, customer needs and insights and architecting solutions.
These teams provide:
The overall coordination, status reporting, financials, schedules and stability of project-oriented work efforts, ensuring that project goals and objectives are met within agreed time, scope and resource requirements
Detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes within budget constraints
What we're looking for:
Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree, with an anticipated graduation date between March 2026 and August 2027
Available to start on 1st March or 1st September 2027
Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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
Global Markets Launch Graduate Rotational Program 2027 - Associate Product Specialist & Associate Analyst, Account Management- Dubai, UAE (UAE Nationals Preferred)
Why join Mastercard's Launch Program?
Throughout this 18-month program, you'll develop the ability to connect ideas, people, and markets to drive commercial impact. Through hands-on experiences, cross-functional projects, and structured learning opportunities, you'll gain exposure to multiple areas of Mastercard's business while building broad business acumen and a global perspective. You'll collaborate with teams across functions, contribute to strategic initiatives, and strengthen the skills needed to solve complex business challenges. This experience will help you build a well-rounded commercial mindset and prepare you for a variety of career paths across Mastercard's global organization.
Global Markets
This role is part of the Global Markets business unit, which offers a unique opportunity to experience 2 x nine-month rotations across curated career tracks, designed to enrich and diversify the Launch of your career, alongside enhancing your professional growth as part of the Global program that owns this initiative.
Career Track 1. Sales and Business Development
As part of our Sales and Business Development track, you can expect to focus on strategic sales planning and consultative and solution selling.
These teams provide:
Product expertise and help leverage Mastercard integrated solutions to drive sales and revenue goals
Is responsible for setting sales strategies as it relates to products that are aligned with geographical strategy and help identify and close sales leads
Market intelligence to product developers and managers to support design, development and implementation efforts
Career Track 2. Product Management and Solutions
As part of our Product Management and Solutions track, you can expect to focus on user experience, product performance and ongoing management, customer needs and insights and architecting solutions.
These teams provide:
The overall coordination, status reporting, financials, schedules and stability of project-oriented work efforts, ensuring that project goals and objectives are met within agreed time, scope and resource requirements
Detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes within budget constraints
What we're looking for:
Currently enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's degree, with an anticipated graduation date between March 2026 and August 2027
Available to start on 1st March or 1st September 2027
Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients. Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through extracurricular activities.
Rapid Growth: Eagerness to learn quickly, both through Mastercard's structured training curriculum and organic development opportunities.
Communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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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