Strategy Consultant

Wilson Growth Partners LLC (WGP) is a management consulting firm based in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Founded in 2014 and with a focus on business and organizational strategy setting and implementation, WGP serves clients in the industrial, healthcare, private equity, and technology sectors.

WGP serves clients through a broad set of models, and WGP teams often operate within multiple client environments at once. Using a team-based consulting model, WGP serves client executive teams and boards on their most pressing issues. This dynamic and engaging work environment demands the best of professional standards.

We are recruiting a Strategy Consulting Associate to enhance our client service capabilities. The job location will be in Spartanburg, South Carolina and will include significant travel to client sites.

Role Description:

The WGP Strategy Consulting Associate is responsible for supporting WGP’s consulting practice across a diverse set of activities. While focusing on direct service to WGP clients, the Strategy Consulting Associate will also have responsibilities for the development of the WGP practice and ownership and development of their own career.

Qualifications and Experience:

You must be authorized to work in the United States. Employer sponsorship is not available. 

Bachelor’s degree with exemplary performance and at least 2 years of relevant work experience, ideally, within a professional services environment. MBA is a plus.

How to apply:

Submit your resume to this posting.

Responsibilities:

Major responsibilities can be categorized into three broad areas, but given the size of WGP’s practice, the ideal candidate for this role will be flexible and resourceful in advancing the WGP mission: Partnering with our clients to deliver lasting, actionable guidance on their fundamental challenges. This role’s general mission is to enable client success by taking on analytical, creative, and other problem-solving tasks in direct service to WGP’s clients. The ideal Strategy Consulting Associate will also act in support of WGP’s overall practice development and client development aims. Some key responsibilities include:

Analysis leadership

• Problem structuring
• Research and insight generation
• Financial analysis
• Operational analysis
• Qualitative analysis

Client leadership

• Engagement with clients to gather data, insights, and ideas
• Collaborative problem-solving leadership
• Spending time to understand client organization culture, process, norms and their impact on WGP’s approach

Firm building

• Deploy and monitor new tools
• Engage with other consultants to develop and share best practices
• Support business development efforts

Key capabilities

• Ability to work independently both in and out of a traditional office environment
• A great listener
• Resourcefulness in an ambiguous, small-company environment
• Ability to build perspective on what to do and how to do it
• Critical thinking
• Structured, logical thinking
• Exemplary written and spoken communications
• Expertise with Microsoft Office, including Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Project
• Self-starting professional
• Bias for action
• Willingness to manage own professional development (with corresponding investment by the company)
• Client orientation / service orientation
• Quantitative reasoning capabilities, including financial acumen
• Ability to self-teach, particularly new concepts
• Broadly read, curious mindset
• Flexibility as to reasonable work and delivery hours (i.e., a “professional” mindset)
• Ability and willingness to travel ~60% of the time in the event the business environment returns to pre-COVID norms