Kearney MBA Diversity Bootcamp Summer Associate 2025

Job Description

Qualifications

Who you are 

After nearly 100 years, we know this business is fundamentally about making connections—between facts, figures, insights, strategies, tools, technologies, and above all, people. That’s why we look for collaborative, insightful, and inquisitive problem-solvers who do not accept the first thing in front of them and who are always unapologetically themselves. 

We want to hear from you if you are: 

–       Ready to share your ideas and contribute as soon as you join a team 

–       Analytically inclined and enjoy solving problems 

–       Able to prioritize and are a doer by nature 

–       Experienced 5-10 years in your chosen field 

–       Enrolled in your first year in a competitive MBA program

–       Fluent in English

 

Practice Preferences

You are eligible to apply for the practices below. During your application, you will have the option to pick your ranking of the practices.

General Practice (GP) Associate: Our general practice allows our junior consultants to gain experience across industries and functions prior to selecting a practice alignment, which typically occurs by the senior associate or manager level.

Communications, Media, and Technology (CMT) Associate: The telecommunications, media, and technology practices combine high-impact service offerings to boost the competitiveness of our clients, working with them along the entire value chain - from strategy, product development, customer interaction, and digital enablement to operations, procurement, large-scale cost programs, transformation, and supply chain.

Consumer Industry and Retail Practice (CIRP) Associate: Today's consumer industries retail market presents extraordinary opportunities for companies to transform their operations and gain unprecedented competitive advantage and market share.

Digital & Analytics (D&A) Associate: As technological shifts continue to disrupt industry, our clients face challenges that demand pragmatism, innovation, and a relentless focus on results. Our recently combined Digital and Analytics practice is uniquely positioned to address these challenges by helping clients think better, build better, and scale better. In doing so, we aim to become the leading digital, data, AI and analytics firm for strategic operations, the trusted partner for CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CDOs, and CTOs for their most important digital and technology-driven transformations, and the consultants of choice in an AI-enabled world. 

Energy and Process Industry (EPI) Associate: Energy and Process Industries is a dynamic and growing practice that powers every industry and sector. We partner with practices across the firm to build compelling perspectives and offerings to our clients and work on cutting-edge projects that directly impact our way of life. Candidates with a strong interest or background in Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Metals & Mining, or ESG/Sustainability should consider this role.

Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Associate: Our FIG consultants work with banking, insurance, and payments clients to help drive value creation and develop strategies and programs for growth and improved performance and profitability.

Health Practice Associate: The health practice teams with companies across biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, distributors and pharmacies, payers and providers, and consumer health to address their strategic and operational issues.

Leadership, Change, and Organization (LCO) Associate: The LCO practice deals with a vast number of topics ranging from the structure of organizations, the processes they run, and how they engage their people, focusing on general and administrative (G&A) processes such as finance, accounting, and human resources.

Mobility, Defense, and Advanced Industries (MDI) Associate: The automotive, aerospace and defense, transportation, travel, industrial products, and infrastructure practice integrates all the capabilities of the end-to-end mobility value chain. From innovative product design to complex engineering infrastructure, our industries represent the backbone of the global economy.

Product Excellence and Renewals Lab (PERL) Associate: PERL fuses world-class product design with Kearney's operational expertise to transform product portfolios. With a deep knowledge of consumer insights and design, PERLab improves profits, reduces complexity costs, streamlines the supply chain, and helps companies achieve their sustainability goals.

Strategic Operations (SOP) Associate: Whether it's planning, sourcing, production, or distribution, our SOP practice knows how to address difficult challenges in managing costs and services while applying the latest thinking on key support resources such as digital technologies, agile operating models, and change management along the way.

Transactions & Transformations (T&T) Associate: The T&T team works collaboratively with organizations and private equity firms through the entire investment process - from supporting the deal flow, 100-day planning, and restructuring operations to building up assets, creating value, and exiting the deal.

Apply Now

Submit your cover letter, CV, and academic transcripts (.doc or .pdf format only) via our website before Monday, May 20, 2024.

Interview Process

Candidates will have interviews held virtually the week of July 15, 2024. If you are invited to first-round interviews, you will receive a notice from a Kearney recruiter to schedule your interview.

Read more about how you can make your mark, your way at Kearney.com/careers.

Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination 
Kearney prides itself on providing a culture where our employees belong and thrive equally, which means our people feel comfort, confidence, and joy as they do great things for our firm, our colleagues, and our clients. That’s why Kearney is committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive environment. Kearney is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences consistent with applicable laws. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices. We encourage everyone to apply, including those who may not feel historically represented in consulting. 

Language Requirements

N/A