Strategy Associate (May 2023)

About Us

The challenges facing business and society are complex and need new angles and fresh thinking. Your human ingenuity, passion and experience, combined with the latest technology, make these problems easier to tackle. Together, we are a passionate community of solvers coming together in unexpected ways, creating new solutions for a new day.

We’re in the business of transformation. To transform the future, we're building a diverse, ambitious team that champions imaginative ways to solve our clients' most important challenges. 

Consulting. People solving together powered by technology.

The New Equation is a future where human meets digital. While it sometimes separates us, technology can reach its best and fullest potential when it joins and serves us. For us, people and technology work hand in hand. It's about how human ingenuity combines with technology, innovation and experience to deliver faster, more intelligent and better outcomes while building trust to turn today’s ideas into tomorrow’s solutions and keep our clients ahead of the curve.

How and where work gets done is being reimagined. It all adds up to The New Equation.

About the Opportunity

As an Associate in our Adelaide Skilled Service Hub, you’ll work collaboratively with our broader Strategy Consulting teams to support the transformation, design and delivery of important organisational, business, and operational improvements on our major client projects. We welcome transferable skills and have a high focus on learning and development opportunities in order to build new skills. Alongside your peers, you’ll help Australian businesses, not-for-profits and governments create value and improve the way they work. From digitising healthcare, to creating smarter cities and igniting our start-up industry, together we build trust in society and solve important problems.

As an Associate, there is a set of core capabilities you’ll need to hit the ground running are:

• Building knowledge to draw conclusions and insights from analyses
• Ability to identify creative and useful additional analyses required and suggest new paradigms for recommendations
• Can generate hypothesis and can identify potential data required to test
• Ability to prioritise work effectively, raise issues and likely points of controversy in a timely fashion
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the client's agenda, perspectives and culture
• Ability to build productive relationships with client team
• Remain balanced and calm in stressful or confrontational situations
• Ability to work in at times difficult and challenging environments
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite applications

Desired strengths include but are not limited to:

• Ability to communicate meaningfully in both formal & informal settings
• Ability to articulate both quantitative and qualitative insights and derive conclusions from client problems
• Communicates ideas & conclusions clearly and concisely in writing
• Ability work proactively with clients
• Analytical strength with the ability to solve problems

To solve important problems we need to aim for the inclusion of our diverse talent. We empower our people to use their creativity, authenticity and human differences to be the champions of change. We know that when people from diverse backgrounds and with different points of view work together, we create the most value - for our clients, our people and our society. If you don’t think you quite meet all of the qualifications, we’d still love to hear from you. 

Your New Benefits

• Flexible daily working hours, we value work-life balance
• Work overseas or interstate, we know how precious time is with your family and friends
• Paid study (and leave!), we’ll pay all the costs and give you time off to study
• No dress code, wear what makes you feel comfortable and dress for your day
• Yearly bonuses, because who doesn’t love to be rewarded for great performance!
• Health & fitness perks, like a wellness stipend and discounted memberships
• 26 weeks paid parental leave policy for mums, dads and foster carers

If you're looking for a team that values your work and solves meaningful problems, apply now!

We believe the best work is human-led and tech-powered. If you’re keen to apply and need reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.