Consulting Analyst (Undergrad - 2024) (Second Drop)
Insight Sourcing Group, United States
Job Description
DRIVE VALUE | CREATE TANGIBLE RESULTS | JOIN THE BEST PLACE TO WORK
If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that sourcing matters! Remember product shortages and empty store shelves? Whether identifying opportunities to reduce clients’ costs and environmental impacts or proposing innovative solutions that curb the effect of soaring prices and longer lead times, Insight Sourcing Group’s (ISG) cost optimization and procurement-related services deliver tangible business results for our clients while also enhancing the employee experience, customer satisfaction, and community impact.
Want to be more than a number-crunching PowerPoint jockey?
As an Analyst, you support all aspects of ISG’s client-facing projects with direction from ISG’s experienced management team. In addition, you use your superpowers in consulting, problem-solving, project management, and data analysis to assist client decision-making at private equity (PE) and Fortune 500 companies. Lastly, ISG managers and mentors recognize your leadership potential and invest time and energy in your career to nurture your development and put you in a position to succeed.
Not your typical consulting job, right?
Specific job responsibilities and activities that showcase your consulting prowess could include the following:
- Synthesize disparate data sources into insights and clear deliverables
- Create and present robust sourcing strategies and recommendations to client executives
- Support new product/service development within ISG and help launch new offerings
- Develop insights in a specific industry working for a Center of Excellence (COE)
- Coordinate communications with internal and external project team
- Develop and nurture relationships with client stakeholders
- Understand how to create consensus among client stakeholders
Typical projects include:
- Strategic sourcing (both within Fortune 500 companies and across private equity portfolios)
- Process reengineering
- Spend analysis and savings opportunity diagnostic
- Pre-purchase due diligence
- Make vs. buy decision analysis
- Benchmarking and best practices implementation
Requirements
What do you bring?
We are looking for professionals who will bring their individuality to our firm and establish a positive imprint on our collective story. Our culture is a meritocracy built by trailblazers who break expectations and form new paths, unencumbered by bureaucracy or traditional barriers. We want individuals who fully progress to their career potential while balancing their pursuit of personal interests. In other words, we want people with a story worth telling.
It also helps if you can demonstrate the following areas:
- 0-1 year of management consulting and/or relevant internship experience
- Ability to effectively plan and manage multiple projects, tasks, and initiatives simultaneously
- Demonstrated project management, consulting, leadership, and analytical skills
- Strong work ethic and a high level of integrity
- Effective communication skills (verbal and written), including the ability to present comfortably to senior executives
- Proficient at building and nurturing client relationships; proven client-facing skills
- Comfortable in an entrepreneurial, performance-driven environment
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office (Excel amp; PowerPoint) products, including the ability to develop and interpret complex analytical models and ad-hoc reports
- Deep analytical expertise with big data and exposure to Alteryx or Python is valued but not required
- Undergraduate degree with a strong GPA from a well-regarded institution
- Requirement to relocate to Atlanta
Benefits
Why take your talents to ISG?
We have established our entrepreneurial roots in Atlanta since our founding in 2002, growing to over 225 team members today. At ISG, we blend the capability and expertise of the largest consulting firms with an entrepreneurial firm’s fun, innovation, and drive.
ISG has a hybrid work model with a blend of remote and in-office expectations. We believe in the importance of collaboration, hands-on development and coaching, and fun and energizing fellowship.
As a result, we enjoy whom we work with just as much as the work we do: you’re a project lead to clients, you’re a ping-pong champion in the break room, and you’re a friendly face at office-wide lunches. You’re never a number.
Insight Sourcing Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic