Strategy (UK & Ireland) Graduate Programme - September 2026 intake

targetjobs UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London seeks Associates to work on strategic consulting engagements. You will analyze data, conduct interviews, and build business models to assist clients in making informed decisions. The role offers extensive training and mentorship, with opportunities to present findings to clients and collaborate directly with senior partners. Ideal candidates should have strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and present findings.
• Excellent communication skills for interviewing and collaborating with teams.
• Ability to build advanced market and business models.

Responsibilities

• Identify data sources and present findings.
• Conduct interviews with market experts and synthesize findings.
• Collaborate with Partners on project sales.

Job description

Work on a wide range of engagements, providing front-end strategy on investments and strategic growth opportunities.

Programme overview

Our team advise clients on a vast range of issues, such as core value proposition, competitive positioning, and growth strategy. Our people enjoy unparalleled contact with influential and highly experienced professionals within the firm, as well as with senior management at clients’ organisations across a range of sectors. We provide a mixture of commercial due diligence and strategy projects with private equity (PE) and corporate clients. These projects help our clients answer their most complex strategic questions by providing in-depth market, competitor, customer, and investment insights.

During the programme, Associates will focus on building the broad analytical consulting toolkit needed to be a successful consultant. This is supported by hands-on project work, a robust training program, and tailored mentorship and coaching.

What you will be doing

• Identifying data sources, gathering, analysing, and interpreting data, and presenting your findings to team members or clients.
• Interviewing market experts, customers, and competitors of the client and synthesizing findings to make strategic recommendations.
• Building advanced market and business models and using those to generate forecasts to support with analysis.
• Ideation sessions with the case team (3-7 members) to tackle complex challenges.
• Collaborating directly with Partners to sell new projects to clients.
• As you progress in the role, you will begin taking responsibility for developing the recommendations that will ultimately be implemented by our clients, whilst also learning how to contribute to and grow the EY-Parthenon business through internal practice building and new business development.