MastercardGlobal Markets Intern, Summer 2027 - Lisbon, Portugal
Mastercard is hiring a Global Markets Intern, Summer 2027 - Lisbon, Portugal (Portugal). Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Gain hands-on experience in global markets through rotations in sales, business development, and product management.
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 Intern, Summer 2027 - Lisbon, PortugalWhy join Mastercard’s internship program?Mastercard's internship program offers more than hands-on work. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities. It provides an opportunity to build skills, expand your network, and make a meaningful impact while working on projects that support business priorities.
Global Markets
This Internship is part of the Global Markets business unit and serves as a core pipeline into the Graduate Programme the following year, which features two curated rotations across specialised career tracks. Internship roles are therefore aligned with these tracks, offering early exposure to the skills and experiences that will be further developed during the graduate journey. 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.
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
As an intern, you'll benefit from:
- Mentorship and coaching from experienced professionals and leaders
- Networking opportunities with fellow interns, employees, and senior leaders
- Professional development experiences focused on career growth and skill-building
- Exposure to innovative technologies and global business challenges
- Volunteer, community engagement, and team-building activities
What we’re looking for:
- Penultimate Year Students currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, with an anticipated graduation date in 2028.
- Available to work full-time for 10 weeks between 1st June – 6th August 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.
How we rate this
Global Markets Intern, Summer 2027 - Lisbon, Portugal at Mastercard rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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