Graduates and interns

What we look for

Our Associates join us from a range of backgrounds, but all are intellectually curious and highly motivated. We also look for people who bring something more to our work than their academic credentials. For example, the self-discipline and team-working skills that stem from a sporting background; or leadership qualities gained through work experience.

As an Associate, you’ll be able to exercise commercial awareness, analytical and interpersonal skills in your day-to-day work. Over time, you’ll build the confidence and credibility to present your opinions to clients and senior stakeholders.

Strategy& can offer you a career with diverse and challenging assignments. Our teams work with a wide variety of UK, European and Global corporate clients and investors. We deliver a mix of strategy consulting projects, addressing key CEO questions on issues such as growth strategy, market entry, mergers and acquisitions and value creation.

Upon joining, you will initially complete a comprehensive three weeks of training (including one week off-site) where you will get a strong understanding of the fundamental skills required for the job, as well as getting to know your intake of other associates. This will be followed up regular training sessions over your first few months so you can continue to develop these skills.

After the initial three weeks training, you will immediately be immersed into the team and become a core part of project delivery teams. You will be responsible for delivering your own workstream on the project soon after settling into the team, while receiving close support and guidance from a Senior Associate / Manager on the project. From day 1, you will have the opportunity to contribute to discussions within internal meetings with senior team members, and will have your voice and opinions valued.

Typical Associate responsibilities include:

Owning and delivering your own workstream, while receiving guidance and support from a Senior Associate / Manager
Building hypotheses to solve the clients key questions
Identifying relevant data sources and collecting, interpreting and analysing data to test these hypotheses
Conducting interviews and deriving insight from qualitative inputs
Presenting findings to team members, clients and other senior stakeholders

Associates are each assigned a buddy who will be responsible for helping you settle in and be there to answer any questions you may have, as well as a career coach, who will serve as a mentor and support you to ensure you get the right projects and opportunities to develop and progress your career at Strategy&.

Graduate applications are now closed and will reopen in September 2023.

Upon joining as a Summer Intern, you will first complete a week long training to give you an introduction to the fundamental skills required for the job, as well as giving you an opportunity to get to know the other Summer Interns.

You’ll then join our project teams on exciting live client engagements. Not only will you experience what it’s like to work and grow at Strategy&, you’ll also benefit from a summer of formal and informal learning and development delivered by our experienced strategy consultants.

Typical Intern responsibilities include:

Assisting a Senior Associate on the delivery of a workstream
Building hypotheses to solve the clients key questions
Identifying relevant data sources and collecting, interpreting and analysing data to test these hypotheses
Conducting interviews and deriving insight from qualitative inputs
Presenting findings to team members, clients and other senior stakeholders

Summer Interns are each assigned a buddy who will be responsible for helping you settle in and be there to answer any questions you may have, as well as a career coach, who will serve as a mentor and support you in converting your internship to a full-time offer for the Associate position.

Applications have now closed for 2023.

For Summer Intern / Graduate Women and Black Talent

In order to ensure we continue to excel as a diverse and inclusive team, we offer two supported recruitment pathways for Graduates and Summer Interns, these are ‘Strategy& Women in Consulting’ and ‘Black Talent’.

Both pathways give applicants the opportunity to attend a virtual insight day followed by an (optional) in-person networking event hosted in our London office. The virtual insight day will allow you to hear directly from our consultants on topics such as; What to expect working at S&, Tips for preparing your CV and Cover Letter, Tips on preparing for the Case Study Interviews.

To apply for these pathways, applications open up in Summer (typically July). You will be asked to submit a CV and Cover Letter when applying, however please note that you will be given the opportunity to resubmit these documents after attending the Virtual Insight Day / Networking Event, to make any adjustments you think will help improve the quality of your application.

First you must submit your CV and Cover Letter online, and complete an online assessment.
If you pass the online assessment and CV / cover letter screening, you will be invited to a first round of 2 back-to-back interviews, which either takes places virtually or in-person at our London office.
The first round of interviews will typically comprise:
- An unstructured case study interview (c.45 mins); You will first be asked a number of questions to help us learn more about who you are as a person (e.g. questions based around your background, personal experiences, previous professional work experience if relevant, and your motivations for joining Strategy&). You will then be given a unstructured consulting case study to work through with your interviewer
- A structured case study interview (c.45 mins); You will be given a case study with a slide pack, which reflects a real client project we have worked on. You will have c.10 minutes to look over the information provided before being asked to develop some recommended solutions for the client.
Our case studies have been specifically designed to allow us to understand how you think when you are structuring an approach to solve a client’s problem, rather than coming up with ‘the right’ answer.
If you successfully pass the first round, you will be invited to a second round of interviews. This will either be on the same day for in-person full day assessments, or during another assessment days.

Meet some of our interns and graduates

Nabil

Making a real impact through my PwC career

Chioma

Life as an Associate is a great learning experience

Dora

The internship gave me a real insight into how interesting and challenging the projects are

Luke

I really felt like a valued member of the team from day 1 of the internship

Have a question?

If you are an applicant for an Associate or Intern role, please send an email to our London Strategy& recruitment team at uk_strategyand_student_recruitment@pwc.com if you have a specific question regarding applications at Strategy&.

Alternatively, if you would like an opportunity to network directly with our consultants, watch out for different Strategy&-hosted events at universities around the UK every September / October and an opportunity to sign up to networking evenings at our London offices (including ‘An Evening with S&’ , ‘Strategy& Women in Consulting’ and ‘Strategy& Black Talent’ networking events).

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