Growth Strategy, Analyst (Fall 2026)

PA Consulting; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative consultancy is seeking talented individuals to join their dynamic team in Chicago. This hybrid role focuses on growth strategies, sustainability, and delivering exceptional results for clients. You will collaborate with experienced professionals, tackle complex challenges, and create lasting impacts across various sectors. With a commitment to personal and career development, the company fosters an inclusive environment where your insights and creativity can thrive. Join a forward-thinking firm that values ingenuity and teamwork, and help shape a positive future in a technology-driven world.

Benefits

Group medical insurance

Health Savings Account with company match

Long-term care plan

Vision plan

401(k) Savings Plan with company profit sharing

Commuter and Parking tax-savings benefits

15 paid vacation days

Option to buy additional vacation days

Company income protection benefits

Qualifications

• Client-oriented with strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strategic thinker with a record of exceptional achievement.

Responsibilities

• Help CEOs develop and implement strategies to create value.
• Work alongside clients to solve strategic challenges.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Presentation Skills

Time Management

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Note : This is a campus recruitment role with a planned start date in September 2025.

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunities from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defense, security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.

Job Description

Join a team that’s focused on one thing: growth. Growth for clients, growth for our team, and most importantly, growth for you.

• PA’s Growth Strategy capability has a proven record of working with senior leaders in major private and public sector organizations, directly addressing their biggest strategic challenges.
• As a part of the team, you will help CEOs and other business leaders across many sectors to develop and implement strategies to create value and transform their organizations.
• You will lead in the development and execution of the latest strategic thinking and have a thirst for insight and problem solving.
• You will join a people-oriented team of experienced, inquisitive co-workers who help business leaders across many sectors create a lasting impact on their organizations.

We are growing our team by recruiting talented members from diverse backgrounds. We operate across various industry sectors, providing deep contextual insight and fresh perspectives to our clients.

Operating at the leading edge of consulting, you will add value to our clients across one or several of our core offerings :

• Growth – developing new propositions and go-to-market strategies
• Sustainability strategy – helping businesses tackle the challenges and opportunities presented by the evolving sustainability focus

We define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses, communities, and team members. It’s a principle that underpins everything we do.

Our clients choose us because we challenge convention to find solutions that really work – in practice, not just on paper. We then roll up our sleeves and get the job done.

Our people are expected to be hands-on, working alongside clients to bring energy, direction, and expertise to solve their most pressing strategic challenges. We pride ourselves on partnering with clients to deliver real and long-lasting value.

In addition to the formal benefits listed below, we are passionate about the personal and career development of all our people. Our team is committed to providing opportunities, support, training, and coaching at all levels to help our people reach their potential. Outside of client work, our team fosters a community of development through social outings, volunteering, and internal learning sessions.

This is a hybrid position, though this may change at any time. Employees are asked to come into the office 2 days a week to foster communication and collaboration.

Qualifications

You will be :

• Client-oriented, able to understand challenges and build relationships
• Able to simplify complexity
• Insightful and creative, with integrity, drive, interpersonal skills, and a genuine affinity for problem solving
• A strategic thinker, capable of defining and undertaking both quantitative and qualitative research
• Open-minded and committed to inclusion and diversity of thought and background
• Able to work independently as the day-to-day client point of contact on assignments

This position has several requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree with a record of exceptional achievement
• Strong analytical skills and experience in in-depth data analysis
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• US work authorization is required
• Position based in Chicago, IL

Additional Information

• Group medical insurance
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Teladoc and informed Nurse line resources
• Long-term care plan
• Vision plan
• 401(k) Savings Plan with company profit sharing
• Commuter and Parking tax-savings benefits
• 15 paid vacation days with an option to buy five more
• Company and voluntary income protection benefits