Associate Consultant (2024 Grads) - Q3 2024 Start Dates

Are you passionate about business? Yearning for professional growth and an opportunity to accelerate your career? Energized by cutting-edge research, delivering projects, and solving difficult problems for C-suite executives at the world’s most admired corporations? If yes, Kaiser Associates is the place for you! 

Kaiser Associates is a leading global strategy consulting firm with offices in Washington, DC and London. We partner with the world’s most elite corporations, private equity firms, and government entities – helping them turn their most difficult challenges into game-changing growth and productivity opportunities. We specialize in Consumer & Retail, Financial Services & Payments, Industrials, Private Equity and M&A, TMT, and Public Sector.

With a strong focus on strategy, we offer our consultants development opportunities, accessible senior leadership, and minimal travel.

The Position:

The primary role of an Associate Consultant is to support engagements by driving the research and fact-gathering process, analyzing, and synthesizing findings, and developing deliverables for clients. Associate Consultants work across practices as generalists and staffed on projects that vary in industry, scope, length, and location, providing a unique opportunity to experience a variety of consulting engagements early in their career.

As an Associate Consultant, you will:

• Have direct access to clients and senior-level leadership
• Distill actionable and intriguing insights from research using relevant quantitative techniques and appropriate analytical frameworks
• Effectively communicate our conclusions directly to clients through the creation of creative and impactful presentations
• Be supported by an unparalleled group of peers and leaders throughout each engagement

The Essentials for Success:

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated a high level of academic achievement at a four-year college or university. Prior relevant internship or project-based work experience in strategy consulting or market research is highly desirable. You must be naturally curious, self-motivated, able to prioritize effectively and possess strong analytical skills. Our Associate Consultants are expected to be comfortable working on their own as well as in a collaborative manner and bring excellent communication skills, confidence, and a ‘can-do’ attitude.

• Required: B.S./B.A. degree from a 4-year accredited college or university in any discipline in 2024
• Demonstrated success in gathering primary and secondary research through a range of research methodologies
• Exceptional analytical skills; experience working with large datasets and modeling 
• Initiative-taking - exhibiting flexibility and willingness to take on new responsibilities and assignments and to assist with various ad hoc projects as needed
• Comfort with ambiguity - ability to synthesize implications and triangulating from various data sources
• Well organized - ability to manage multiple projects and priorities efficiently
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated experience exercising critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Foreign language skills preferred, but not required
• Strong computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word)