Munich Office - Associate (Entry level position) - Start 2024 in München bei L E K Consulting

About L.E.K. Consulting

L.E.K. Consulting is a global strategy consulting firm that addresses the most critical commercial issues for the leaders of some of the world's most successful businesses.

Clients come to us time and again because we are proven to act as an insightful expert and a trusted partner. We are uncompromising in our approach to help clients make better decisions at crucial moments, changing the trajectory of their enterprise, delivering improved business performance and creating greater shareholder returns.

Our teams combine our core capabilities of research, benchmarking, modelling, data & analytics and strategy development to create game-changing insights and practical solutions that seize competitive advantage and unlock new growth opportunities. We enable clients to make critical decisions with greater certainty and empower them to master their moments of truth.

With more than 1,900 professionals located across five continents, L.E.K. specialises in Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) support with clients across the full range of corporates and private equity. We are expert in a wide range of industries, including Life Sciences and healthcare, retail and consumer, financial services, industrials, energy and transportation.

Our global growth ambitions are huge. Be part of this growth.

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The Associate Role
L.E.K.’s Associate role offers exposure to multiple industry sectors and a wide variety of commercial challenges. The nature and pace of L.E.K.’s strategic work facilitates the rapid development of a highly analytical skill-set, which is underpinned by a structured training programme. Associates are crucial to the success of L.E.K. project teams. They are responsible for the comprehensive research and analysis that form the basis of each engagement. Under the guidance of senior team members, Associates collect data on markets, competitors and customers, and perform the first stage of in-depth strategic and financial analysis. This enables the team as a whole to evaluate trends, develop conclusions, and prepare practical recommendations. As they gain more experience, Associates are expected to assume a more active managerial role in overseeing the progress of a project and the work of new Associates.

Developing your Skills
Working as an Associate at L.E.K. provides you with the opportunity to gain a comprehensive foundation in decision making. From strategy to finance, marketing to operations, Associates are involved in all aspects of strategic and financial analysis across a diverse set of industries. Our people are exposed to a wide range of industries and types of problems, which means their learning curve is steeper compared to the consultancy peer group. As a firm of strategy experts, not industry experts, staff are allocated to a wide range of strategy and transaction projects. The result is that our professionals are continually exposed to new challenges. There is no better or faster way to develop analytical and business leadership skills.

Training and Development
We operate a very comprehensive training programme: new joiners will have an initial two-week orientation programme, followed by continuous training sessions, which are tailored to the needs of your position. L.E.K’s training covers the full range of technical, analytical, strategy, communication, project management & relationship building skills. L.E.K. is extremely committed to the training and development of all employees.

What we are looking for
L.E.K. seeks highly motivated, creative, and entrepreneurial candidates and hires Associates with backgrounds in economics, science, technology, mathematics, etc. Successful candidates typically possess outstanding academic achievements, are comfortable with quantitative analysis, have excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English, relevant professional experience and notable extracurricular interests. Fluency in another European language is considered an asset.

Application Process

We are looking forward to receiving your application!

Our start dates are going to be in January, March, July and September 2024.

Please upload your application documents (cover letter, CV, references) on our career site and indicate your desired start date in the cover letter.

After completing the online application process, selected candidates will be contacted by our Recruitment Team and invited to numerical reasoning test followed by a series of interviews. Applicants stating 'fluency' in a language will have this assessed during the recruitment process.Please note that fluency in both German and English are a requirement for this position.

Diversity and inclusion at L.E.K.

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