Associate

Job Title: Associate

Company Profile:

We’re L.E.K. Consulting, a global strategy consultancy working with business leaders to seize competitive advantage and amplify growth. Our insights are catalysts that reshape the trajectory of our clients’ businesses, uncovering opportunities and empowering them to master their moments of truth. Since 1983, our worldwide practice—spanning the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe—has guided leaders across all industries, from global corporations to emerging entrepreneurial businesses and private equity investors. Looking for more? Visit www.lek.com.

Position Overview:

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. Together, these elements provide exceptional preparation for any future opportunity in graduate school, industry, non-profit organizations, or investment firms.

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.

Major Responsibilities:

The Associate will be responsible for:

• Gathering primary data on markets, competitors and customers through database and internet searches, market research and other commercial reports, internal client data, and telephone and in-person interviews.
• Developing detailed strategic and financial analysis, this will be utilized to determine the recommendations. Examples include: developing a spreadsheet model of market sizes and competitor profitability analysis.
• Working with the case team to derive insights, conclusions and recommendations based on the analyses. An Associate must transform what he or she has learned into a valuable and integral element of the client’s strategic direction.
• Associates will also be actively involved in supporting the client development activities of Partners, through research, analysis, and creation of presentation materials.

Candidate Requirements:

We do not have a rigid checklist of qualities a potential Associate must possess but:

• Rather, our recruiting experience has shown that outstanding academic achievement, comfort with quantitative analysis, notable extracurricular interests and demonstrated leadership and initiative is an excellent base for an Associate with L.E.K. Consulting.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is essential.
• Fluency in another SEA language such as Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Vietnamese is a plus.

Candidate Qualifications:

• A graduate from any discipline.

 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 wider range of industries and types of problems, which means their learning curve develops more rapidly compared to the Consultancy peer group. As a firm of strategy experts, not industry experts, staff are allocated to a wide range of projects. The result is that our professionals are continually exposed to new industries and new challenges. There is no better or faster way to develop strategy consulting and business leadership skills.

International Exchange Programme:

L.E.K. operates an international inter-office exchange programme, which gives you the opportunity for international exposure, from individual casework to international office exchanges.

Benefits and Perks:

• L.E.K. offers you the opportunity to work in a hybrid setup.
• We are among the best paying firms globally.
• Generous time away.
• Regular training programs for Personal and Professional Development.
• Our Global SWAP Program allows our consulting staff the opportunity to work at any one of our 20 global offices for 6 months.
• We have Parental leaves (childcare/maternity/paternity) and flexible work options for new mothers.
• Wellness benefits – Health Insurance, Wellness Apps, Gym reimbursement.
• MBA Sponsorship Program.