Associate-Chicago office

CIL Management Consultants – Associate role

Background:

CIL is an international management consultancy that helps clients to grow their businesses, build value and invest wisely. Most of our engagements involve an M&A element, primarily to advise private equity firms who are looking to invest in high growth businesses. Increasingly, we follow these engagements with strategy work to help investors and management teams make the most of the growth opportunities available to their businesses.

The role:

This internship will last between 8-10 weeks (dependent on your availability / preference).

The Associate role is a highly demanding job – we will expect a lot from you, but you will receive first class training and gain valuable experience with which to build a successful career. CIL Associates are an integral part of our project teams, and over the course of their internship will be expected to:

• Grasp new business models quickly, typically working on a different project every 4-6 weeks.
• Take responsibility for testing commercial hypotheses through collecting and interrogating primary and secondary research.
• Carry out rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis of industry and internal company datasets.
• Play a key role in debating and refining hypotheses with the project manager and project leader, drafting clear & concise output for inclusion in the final report once agreed.
• Get in front of clients and help present our findings – we firmly believe that early client exposure is a great way to learn & develop.

Our people

We have a team of ~200 highly qualified, highly skilled people across our five offices. Successful CIL people share some key attributes:

• Strong academic background and intellectual ability.
• Business acumen and curiosity for solving business problems.
• Humility and quiet self-confidence.
• An appetite to learn from mistakes and improve.
• Independent self-starters with a sense of initiative.
• Team players with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Outstanding numeracy, written and verbal communication skills.

At the time of starting their internship, the successful candidate must have the right to work in the US.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. CIL commits to creating and maintaining a culture where every employee feels included and respected; to countering discrimination through our recruitment and training processes and our interaction with other stakeholders; and to celebrating the diverse contributions of all our employees and stakeholders.