Graduate Launch Program 2025, Sales & Business Development – Madrid, Spain

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

Graduate Launch Program 2025, Sales & Business Development – Madrid, Spain

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.

 

Available Opportunities

We have opportunities available in Sales & Business Development. Please specify if you have a preference in your application and this information will be leveraged to best match applicants to the most suitable role.

Business Development

Business Development focuses on growing revenue by identifying and pursuing opportunities with new or existing customers/markets. It also focuses on growing market share, market acceptance, the number of customer touch points, and MasterCard’s regional footprint.

We Have Business Development Opportunities In The Following Teams

• European Public Sector – Aims to help the public sector find practical solutions to solve important government challenges, driving greater inclusion and accelerating operational efficiencies. This team may be suited to someone with a passion for Public Sector and studying e.g. International Relations, Politics or similar degrees.
• Fintech & Digital Partners – Supporting the Fintech Strategy & Business Development function across the Western European markets, working with stakeholders throughout these partner organizations to drive incremental Mastercard volume and future-proofing our business.
  
  

Sales

Sales teams use analytical and problem-solving skills to provide analyses and solutions that satisfy business and customer needs and inform strategy development. They leverage data tools to develop revenue and expense benchmarks and performance trends and maintain and update customer and sales data and work collaboratively across various internal teams to support a variety of business initiatives and customer queries.

We Have Sales Opportunities In The Following Teams

• Retail & Commerce - Establishes strong internal relationships within Mastercard to enable customers to achieve their business goals and differentiate from competitors, leveraging on Mastercard’s brand sponsorship properties and product management resources to deliver exceptional customer value.
• Digital Partners – Activity across the Fintech & Acquiring space, establishing strong internal relationships within Mastercard to enable customers achieve their business goals and differentiate from competitors, leveraging on Mastercard marketing & product assets to ensure customer life-time value and achieve the vertical objectives.
• Financial Institutions – Analysing customer business strategies and design tactical plans to enhance customer profitability relying on Mastercard products and services.
• Mastercard Move - A product innovation designed to facilitate near real-time, predictable, and transparent commercial Cross-Border payments. It aims to simplify operations, optimize liquidity, reduce counterparty risk, and provide end-to-end visibility for banks and their customers. The role will support the Regional and Divisional leads by crafting compelling value propositions, developing and supporting go-to-market strategies by vertical, and collaborating with local account management teams & customer solutions centres.
  
  

What you’ll need  

• To be available to start from 1st September 2025 
• To be a Final Year Masters/Undergraduate Student or to have graduated no earlier than September 2024 studying e.g. Business, Management, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering or similar/related degrees.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and strategic and conceptual aptitude 
• Analytical and problem-solving skills and an 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
  
  

Corporate Security Responsibility

Responsibilities

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.