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 Healthcare.
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, and length, 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 the college or university level. 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: Bachelor’s degree in 2025 from an accredited college or university. Targeted majors include Business, Economics, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Mathematics, and Science, though we remain open to other disciplines
- Demonstrated success in gathering primary and secondary research through a range of research methodologies
- Relevant internships are a plus
- 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 fluency preferred, but not required
- Strong computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word)
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 the fact that they are a part-time worker or a fixed-term employee.
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What We Do
Kaiser Associates was founded in 1981 with a simple yet powerful mission: to help executives make more informed strategic and operational decisions by incorporating external insight and analysis. Today, Kaiser has a highly selective and elite client base comprised of many Global 500 corporations, private equity firms, and government entities. Our fact-based strategy, rigorous analytics, and implementation expertise generate original, granular insights that help our clients turn their most difficult challenges into game-changing growth and productivity opportunities.
Kaiser recognizes that our business success is possible in part because we have created a collegial and entrepreneurial culture that maximizes growth potential for our consultants. With support from accessible firm leaders, our consultants are afforded accelerated career development and diverse stretch opportunities. Kaiser consultants support global clients from our headquarters in Washington, DC, and offices in London.