Role Description
Strategy Insights & Planning Consultant - Intern
ZS's Insights & Analytics group partners with clients to design and deliver solutions to help them tackle a broad range of business challenges. Our teams work on multiple projects simultaneously, leveraging advanced data analytics and problem-solving techniques. Our recommendations and solutions are based on rigorous research and analysis underpinned by deep expertise and thought leadership.
Strategy Insights & Planning Consultant Intern
Strategy Insights & Planning Consultants deliver high-quality solutions for our clients. Consultants possess unstructured problem-solving skills as well as strong analytic, synthesis and communication skills. Consultants may work on multiple projects simultaneously. As Consultants advance in their career, they specialize in a particular industry, practice area and/or client relationship.
What You’ll Do
- Work with project leadership to define project scope and develop approach.
- Lead project task execution by ensuring progress, organizing project data and coordinating team meetings.
- Conduct issue analysis and develop hypotheses on the key client issues.
- Design and execute qualitative and/or quantitative analyses to test and analyze hypotheses.
- Synthesize findings, develop recommendations, and communicate results to clients and internal teams.
- Provide thought leadership and innovation within projects and practice areas.
- Participate in business development.
- Contribute to internal firm activities.
- Coach and mentor junior team members.
What You’ll Bring
- Candidates should be in their first year of an MBA program and possess a bachelor's (and often graduate) degree in business, economics, marketing, psychology, physical or life sciences, engineering, applied math, statistics, or related fields.
- 3-5 years of pre-MBA work experience.
- High motivation, good work ethic, maturity and personal initiative.
- Aptitude for, and enjoyment of, leading and managing teams.
- Effective oral and written communication skills that enable personal impact with senior-level decision makers.
- Strong attention to detail, with a quality-focused mindset.
- Analytic problem-solving skills, with a creative and innovative outlook.
- Client service orientation.
- Fluency in English
- Client-first mentality
- Intense work ethic
- Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach
