EY-Parthenon Strategy, Summer Associate Consultant Internship

At EY-Parthenon, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help us become even better. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

About EY-Parthenon

EY-Parthenon is a global strategy consultancy. We challenge assumptions to design and deliver strategies that help improve profitability and long-term value. We have more than 9,000 professionals around the globe, working across three areas of focus:

1. Corporate & Growth Strategy: Developing growth strategies by providing in-depth market, competitor and customer insights.
2. Transaction Strategy & Execution (TSE): Developing, evaluating and executing transaction strategies across the whole M&A and investment lifecycle.
3. Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy : Rapidly creating, preserving and recovering value in urgent and complex situations.

This job opportunity relates to Corporate & growth strategy UK only. In the UK, we are also recruiting for roles in our Transaction strategy & execution team, please refer to separate opportunities listed for details of roles also available. Please note you will only be able to apply to one role at EY-Parthenon, so please ensure you are clear on where you want to apply before submitting your application.

About EY-Parthenon Corporate & Growth Strategy

At EY-P Strategy, we put our purpose — Building a better working world — at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to using unconventional yet pragmatic thinking to deliver actionable strategies to help our clients navigate the ever-changing business landscape.

You’ll be a part of a collaborative team that contributes to transforming client businesses using cutting-edge research, analytics and AI powered tool. We work collaboratively to tackle complex challenges and shape the future of the working world. Joining our team means embodying our core values and behaviours to achieve exceptional results for our clients

We advise on a vast range of issues, such as core value propositions, competitive positioning, and growth strategies. EY-Parthenon Strategy employees enjoy unparalleled contact with influential and highly experienced professionals within the firm, as well as at clients’ organisations across a multitude of sectors. The London office focuses on Education, Industrials & Energy, Health Sciences & Wellness, Retail & Consumer Goods, and Technology, Media & Telecom.

The Work

Our current work is typically focused on applying our deep sector & strategy knowledge to various types of projects, including:

• Commercial due diligence
• Strategy development and assessment
• Market entry strategy and opportunity sizing
• Product and business unit strategy development
• Divestment options analysis

You'll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of global and local corporate clients and private equity clients. You'll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement.

The Opportunity

We are seeking to expand our team with Associate Consultants who will work across a range of sectors. As an Associate Consultant you will be responsible for executing significant portions of analysis, presenting data clearly to identify trends or issues and draw out relevant insights which can be used when creating clear storylines for our clients.

The 8-week Summer Associate internship is an excellent opportunity to experience what it is like to work as a consultant and the unique opportunities that EY-Parthenon Strategy offers. By the end of the internship, you will have a real understanding if this is the right choice for you, with many internships resulting in a full-time offer. The programme begins with a week of intense training to equip you with the consulting toolkit you will use throughout the summer. You will then begin working with teams on client projects, performing the same role as a graduate associate consultant. This will involve research, data analysis, building and using spreadsheet models, preparing client presentations, and attending team and client meetings.

A Summer Associate can expect to work on one or two cases across a range of industries, dealing with areas such as commercial due diligence, growth and market entry, profit and operational improvement. This is an excellent opportunity to acquire real-life business experience, whilst acquiring valuable analytic, interpersonal and leadership skills.

EY-Parthenon values their Summer Associates very highly and supports this with comprehensive ongoing training and mentoring to give everyone the best chance to enjoy starting their career with us.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Building an understanding of a client/target’s business, market dynamics and key sector trends
• Delivering accurate analysis and presenting this and associated data clearly to identify trends or issues
• Drawing out relevant insights from work/analysis to feed into overall story-lining of a project output
• Crafting and delivering client-ready slides for both client and Business Development work
• Performing primary and secondary research including data gathering, interviews, and surveys
• Collaborating with your team to help with the planning and developing of analytics, both qualitative and quantitative
• Fostering an inclusive culture throughout the team and within engagements
• Contributing to internal firm building initiatives

Skills and attributes for success

Successful candidates are intellectually curious, passionate about solving complex problems, hardworking, have an enthusiastic and approachable demeanour with an entrepreneurial mind-set. We want people who are great communicators, who collaborate well with people and teams, and who have a real desire to both learn and coach others. We are looking for exciting candidates to join our team with the required characteristics.

To qualify for the role, you must:

• Be educated to bachelor’s degree level or equivalent
• Have both quantitative and qualitative analysis skills
• Be clear and concise in your communication skills, and be able to engage effectively with both clients and team members
• Possess a desire and ability to solve complex and open-ended client problems

Ideally, you will also

• Be good at building productive working relationships with clients and team members
• Enjoy working in a highly collaborative and fast-paced team environment
• Demonstrate good business acumen and experience, ideally across different sectors
• Have the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments
• Demonstrate that you can live our shared values and behaviours:
• Deliver exceptional outcomes: Taking pride in our work, and building trust through discipline and reliability
• Harness creativity and curiosity: Foster innovation and critical thinking by embracing curiosity, valuing diverse perspectives, and seeking the best solutions for our clients
• Engage inclusively : Promote an inclusive culture by showing empathy, practicing mutual respect, and continuously learning from others with kindness and openness
• Unlock potential : Empower personal growth by supporting development, providing constructive feedback, and nurturing an entrepreneurial mindset for career advancement
• Collaborate for shared success: Achieve collective success by embracing shared responsibility, collaborating proactively, and generously sharing knowledge for the benefit of our clients and the firm

What we offer

We offer an attractive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: Through continuous training, coaching and mentorship, you’ll develop the mindset and skills needed to accelerate your career and become a transformational leader
• Real exposure: Opportunities to work on a wide range of projects and be exposed to a number of different business models, industries and companies
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

How to apply

First of all, you need to be sure about which programme you want to apply to. Then click the ‘Apply now’ button of this page. You’ll then be taken to our job portal where you can start your application by creating an account. Once you have registered, you will need to find the correct role within EY-Parthenon Strategy, to do this please enter the following drop downs.

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