Consultant

Location

Melbourne, Sydney

Job Description

As a global strategy consulting firm, we work with some of the most innovative and successful organisations to solve their most critical business problems. Our achievements are fueled by a strong foundation of collaboration and a global community that embraces diverse individuals. Celebrated as one of the top workplaces in Professional Services by the Australian Financial Review, L.E.K. is renowned for fostering an environment where top talent excels.

Established in 1983, our global footprint spans 27 offices worldwide, comprising a team of approximately 3000 professionals. When you join L.E.K., you will enjoy all the benefits of a large, multinational organisation along with the advantages of being part of a close team working in an approachable, collaborative and supportive environment. You’ll be surrounded by highly motivated, high-achieving professionals. Our focus on creating a meaningful and impactful employee experience has contributed to L.E.K. being a genuinely great place to work.

We are currently recruiting Consultants to join our dynamic and high-achieving team in either Sydney or Melbourne office.

What you’ll do

The Consultant role is at the core of the case team structure. Consultants work closely up and down the team with Associates, Managers and Partners. The case team structure provides Consultants with a unique opportunity to manage a team of Associates from day one. The Consultant has primary responsibility for breaking down and analysing the client's strategic issues, developing recommendations and communicating those recommendations.

The Consultant has a high level of responsibility for guiding and managing the case, including:

Working with Partners and Managers to outline the key business issues needing resolution.

Structuring Analyses – Once the key issues have been identified, the Consultant forms a plan to find the answers to these critical questions including layout the strategy to the team for finding information on market growth drivers, competitive profiling, or broad market trends.

Managing the Team’s Day-to-day Activities – A significant responsibility for L.E.K. Consultants is guiding and mentoring more junior Associates on a day-to-day basis.

Plans, prioritises and manages multiple modules and meets case milestones utilising appropriate project planning tools and client engagement skills. Ensures quality of own deliverables and those of team.

Solving the Case – provides high quality, actionable answers to the business problem by ensuring the team is on-track to accurately solve the problem and deliver an answer.

Ensuring the team is on track to accurately solve the problem and deliver an answer. Consultants supervise analyses, develop the structure for the final output and participate in the delivery of the answer to the client.

Recognises potential business opportunities and raises them with senior L.E.K. team.

Provides regular and timely feedback to team on performance, both positive and constructive. Provides upward feedback to manager and partner on case management and leadership.

What we look for

Ideally 5+ years’ experience in strategy consulting or corporate strategy in relevant industries

Highly motivated, creative, and entrepreneurial individuals with strong commercial acumen

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Demonstrated experience managing teams or end to end project management

Comfort with ambiguity and change

Strong written and verbal skills

Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing and dynamic environment with integrity, patience and a sense of humour

Willingness to travel

NB: This role requires prior experience in strategy consulting within advisory or corporate environments. For MBA graduates without prior management consulting experience, please apply to “MBA - Consultant” role when it becomes available in future (timing TBC).

Why join L.E.K.?

Shorter case cycles – At L.E.K. you’ll develop rapidly due to our cases typically being shorter than other firms. This means exposure to more clients, strategic issues, industries and teams and maximum learning.

Breadth of experience – We work across a range of industries, on a variety of Strategy, Transactions and Organisation and Performance cases.

Professional development – L.E.K. is committed to investing in your development and one way of doing this is through our Back to the Office Day (BTTOD). One day every month is dedicated to learning and development, with each cohort having a curated curriculum every year.

Upward Mobility – L.E.K. is a meritocracy with an entrepreneurial culture and frequent feedback. Promotion paths do not follow a strict timeline; we promote people as quickly as they develop.

Collaboration – Extensive collaboration with senior clients and the opportunity to work closely with partners on a day-to-day basis creates ongoing learning opportunities for L.E.K. Consultants.

Flexible & Remote working - we understand that everyone has unique needs to achieve work-life harmony, and that is why, at L.E.K., we encourage and support our staff with a range of flexible working arrangements that are tailored at the individual level.

Fun, stimulating work environment – L.E.K. teams spend substantially more time in their home office relative to other consulting firms, and we pride ourselves on a vibrant social culture facilitated through our various committees including Pride@L.E.K., Women in Business, Community Engagement Committee, Ministry of Fun, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and more.

Diversity And Inclusion At L.E.K.

We have several affinity groups to support and enrich our employees, including Pride@LEK, Mosaic@LEK and Women@LEK. In addition, our Diversity and Inclusion committee celebrate events throughout the year with a focus on awareness and education.

L.E.K. acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional custodians of the land upon which we operate. We pay our respects to the Elders of the past, present and future and acknowledge their spiritual connection to Country.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. All applications must include a CV, cover letter and academic transcripts to be considered.

To apply for this role, you must have full Australian working rights.