Associate (NS)

Next Street; Boston; On-site; PHP 5,653,000 - 8,166,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Street Client Solutions is seeking a high-performing Associate to work closely with Firm leadership on engagements across client audiences. You will develop and manage advisory relationships with client executives, provide actionable recommendations, and drive implementation.

You will oversee qualitative and quantitative analyses, create client deliverables, and manage project plans and resources. This role also supports business development and knowledge dissemination within the firm.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with strong academic performance.
• 3+ years work experience with a top-tier professional services firm.
• Capacity to manage junior staff.
• Desire to build a business and an appetite to take entrepreneurial initiative.
• Demonstrated capacity for collaboration and teamwork at all levels of tenure.
• Commitment to develop one's personal leadership, in addition to cultivating one's abilities to lead others, the work, and the organization.
• Proven ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong desire to learn through work across industries, client segments, and communities of practice.
• Willingness to challenge and be challenged, regardless of seniority.

Responsibilities

• Developing and managing long-term advisory relationships with client executives.
• Developing actionable recommendations, and supporting and driving implementation.
• Overseeing and performing complex qualitative and quantitative business, financial, and organizational analysis, industry/market research, and interviewing.
• Creating client deliverables in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Developing and managing project plans and resources, including talent.
• Managing multiple aspects of client engagements in accordance with project timelines.
• Supporting business development efforts to attract new clients and augment existing relationships.
• Contributing to Firm knowledge development, codification, and dissemination through Next Street's communities of practice.

Skills

Client relationship management

Team collaboration

Project leadership

Entrepreneurial initiative

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Job description

Next Street: Where teamwork and entrepreneurship meet

Next Street was founded in 2005 with the belief that small businesses and nonprofits are the engines of inclusive growth in underserved markets. Serving as trusted advisor to some of the country's most dynamic organizations, we are a mission-driven consulting firm bringing strategic and financial expertise to revitalize communities, grow businesses, and create jobs. Our work includes directly serving small businesses and nonprofits to help them grow, as well as advising public and private institutions at a systems level to drive sustainable and equitable development solutions in communities across the US.

We look for professionals who aim to combine their diverse backgrounds and experiences with a passion for mission, offering our team members an unparalleled opportunity to work at the intersection of doing well and doing good. Next Street is a for-profit 'business for good' and a certified B Corporation with offices in Boston, New York City, and Chicago.

Position Summary:

Next Street Client Solutions is looking for a high-performing Associate who will work closely with Firm leadership to lead and support engagements serving all of our client audiences.

• Developing and managing long-term advisory relationships with client executives
• Developing actionable recommendations, and supporting and driving implementation
• Overseeing and performing complex qualitative and quantitative business, financial, and organizational analysis, industry/market research, and interviewing
• Creating client deliverables in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
• Developing and managing project plans and resources, including talent
• Managing multiple aspects of client engagements in accordance with project timelines
• Supporting business development efforts to attract new clients and augment existing relationships
• Contributing to Firm knowledge development, codification, and dissemination through Next Street's communities of practice

We are looking for someone with:

• Bachelor's degree with strong academic performance
• 3+ years work experience with a top-tier professional services firm
• Capacity to manage junior staff
• Desire to build a business and an appetite to take entrepreneurial initiative
• Demonstrated capacity for collaboration and teamwork at all levels of tenure
• Commitment to develop one's personal leadership, in addition to cultivating one's abilities to lead others, the work, and the organization
• Proven ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong desire to learn through work across industries, client segments, and communities of practice
• Willingness to challenge and be challenged, regardless of seniority

Next Street is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.