Consultant or Senior Consultant, Strategy Consulting

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 global growth consulting firm that translates original insights into strategy for ambitious organizations around the world.
For more than 40 years, our “industry insider” approach to bespoke research has supported clients in a focused group of specialized markets and disciplines. Armed with this intelligence that is simply unavailable elsewhere, our analysts can craft practical, agile, and actionable strategies that allow clients to make some really bold decisions. With great confidence.
With a strong focus on strategy, we offer our consultants development opportunities, accessible senior leadership, and minimal travel. We offer the opportunity to work in a variety of our practices: Consumer & Retail, Financial Services & Payments, Healthcare, Industrials, Private Equity and M&A, and TMT.
The Position:
The primary role of a Consultant/Senior Consultant is to support engagements by managing the research and fact-gathering process, analyzing and synthesizing findings, and developing deliverables for clients. Consultants/Senior Consultants serve as a coach and mentor to small teams of junior consultants on each project. Consultants/Senior Consultants work across practices as generalists and will be staffed on projects that vary in industry, scope, length, and location.
As a Consultant/Senior Consultant, you will:

• Successfully manage complex projects (i.e., multiple markets, expansive scope on nuanced subject matter) from start to finish and/or multiple engagements concurrently
• Manage complex work streams from start to finish and/or entire projects with low complexity (e.g., refresh of prior engagement, minimal project scope)
• Proactively support more junior team members in utilizing research methods, executing the research plan, and troubleshooting potential challenges
• Create a successful research plan, including distillation of key SOW elements, to ensure depth and breadth of research to answer key client questions
• Distill novel and actionable insights and elevate them into high value, well-substantiated conclusions
• Develop clear and actionable frameworks / models; using these to tell a compelling story with a strategic structure
• Successfully utilize qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques with minimal supervision
• Edit own and junior team members’ work to ensure deliverables submitted to Managers require minimal revisions and avoid "unforced errors"
• Develop compelling storyboards (e.g., slide templates for an entire deliverable or major section of analysis) that are logical, to-the-point, and support the client narrative
• Serve as a mentor and coach to small teams of junior consultants; this includes supporting Associate Consultants in research plan execution
• Act as a direct resource for clients throughout the engagement by facilitating and leading portions of client meetings, depending on project needs
• Use qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques and robust problem-solving approaches to distill research into actionable conclusions
• 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. They will have 2-4 years of prior strategy consulting, market research, or relevant project-based work experience supporting commercial due diligence engagements. They are expected to be able to work in teams and bring excellent communication skills, confidence, and a ‘can-do’ attitude.

• 2 – 4+ years of strategy management consulting or other relevant management consulting work experience
• B.S./B.A. degree from a 4-year accredited college or university in any discipline
• Demonstrated success in gathering primary and secondary research in a professional service environment
• Track record in analyzing and synthesizing data, and communicating accurate, logical, and actionable conclusions in a professional service environment
• Demonstrated experience leading workstreams and small research teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong business writing competencies
• Ability to think creatively and strategically while maintaining a sharp focus on details and execution
• Demonstrated experience exercising critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Foreign language skills preferred, but not required
• Advanced MS Office computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to leverage your strategic expertise and work in a growing firm with a clear path to Partner, we encourage you to apply.

Kaiser Associates provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, religion or belief, race (including color, nationality, ethnic or national origin), disability or age, pregnancy or maternity (referred to as “protected characteristics”), or any other basis protected by law.
Actual compensation is determined based on specific job level at time of hire.