Summer Associate Consultant - NY Area

The role

A member of an ongoing project team helps a global enterprise address strategic issues. The role involves research, quantitative analysis, and developing business strategies.

What you will do

• Works as a member of an ongoing project team helping a global enterprise address a strategic issue
• Travels to or videoconferences with clients, data sources and teammates from all over the world
• Applies rigorous yet creative research and quantitative analysis to develop winning business strategies
• Obtaining relevant data and other information needed to address client issues from a variety of sources
• Analyzing and visualizing data that creates meaningful insights and conclusions for clients
• Developing action plans for clients by synthesizing analyses and applying strategic thinking to them
• Presenting and explaining research, analyses, findings and recommendations to teammates and clients

Required qualifications

• Within one year of earning a BS/MS from a leading university or college (e.g., rising senior)
• Relevant meaningful prior internship experience and/or extracurricular experience
• Strong data manipulation & analysis skills with tools such as Excel, R, Tableau, Python, SQL, Access, etc.
• Excellent research capabilities
• High levels of intelligence, creativity, intellectual curiosity, energy & enthusiasm
• Effective problem-solving skills and abundant common sense while being detail oriented & very organized
• Strong communications skills, both written and verbal
• A high degree of maturity and responsibility with the ability to work both independently and in teams
• Interpersonal skills to work cross-culturally with diverse groups of clients and co-workers
• Strong leadership ability and the ability to inspire confidence in others

Nice to have

• Quantitative analytical undergraduate education (Engineering, Math, Economics or a Science)
• multiple languages a plus

Before you apply

• Strong candidates will receive a request for a phone or video conversation
• The next step is typically 2 rounds of case study focused interviews
• If successful, receives an offer to return to the firm as a full-time employee upon graduation

About the company

Mars & Co is a generalist business improvement consulting firm with a 40+ year history delivering strategic and operational improvements to Fortune 100 clients.