Associate Consultant (2025 Graduates)
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)