BCG in NZ - Ukraine support - sustainability news - new office openings - "top 25" lists and more in Don Leslie's March consultancy newsletter

We’re in the prime strategy and management consultancy recruiting season. Here are some news items which might spark an idea for an application or help with interview preparation. As always, I encourage you not only to apply to open roles on firms’ websites, but to be proactive and take the initiative by contacting target firms directly – before an advertisement appears.

Consultancies and Ukraine?-?green/sustainability/ESG developments?-?BCG in NZ?- ?Dutch takeovers ?- ?PhDs in demand?-?news from Ireland?-?new in Manchester ?- show me the money?-??crypto consultants ?– ?best holidays?-?Oliver Wyman’s 21%

Holidays

·???????Deloitte has announced a flexible working scheme in the UK which allows its employees to choose when to take public holidays. (It is also providing each with ￡500 to kit out home offices.) https://tinyurl.com/mr3ap43s

·???????However, PwC Canada gives its consultants an extra five days holiday https://tinyurl.com/ycknvu9k

·???????KPMG Canada goes two better: it has created seven ‘long weekends’ July and August by tacking on an extra day’s leave https://tinyurl.com/yd68z255?

·???????But consultants at Dutch consultancy Marktlink don’t have to choose: their firm offers unlimited holiday as part of the package https://onbeperktverlof.nl/en/

Elixirr has appointed ex-KPMG head Bill Michael as an adviser. (Readers may recall Michael left KPMG UK last year following some critical language:?https://www.donleslie.uk/march-2021-consultancy-newsletter/?https://tinyurl.com/4cc487f3 ?) The firm’s webpage lists openings in London. New York, Dallas and San Francisco. https://tinyurl.com/2kv58625????

Green News

·???????Sustainability consultancy ERM has appointed a new Global CEO.?https://tinyurl.com/bdewn2vx???The firm has featured in a number of previous newsletters (see https://www.donleslie.uk/december-2021-consultancy-newsletter/ ) – receiving investment from PE fund managers KKR, buying up boutique firms in the ‘green’ space?- ?and seems to have an insatiable appetite for new hires. Its website?https://tinyurl.com/2p9dwdr4?lists over 850 roles in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, the Caribbean and Latin America: from Poland to Puerto Rico, South Korea to Colombia…

·???????IKEA to Kearney: a new Global Director joins its Sustainability team https://tinyurl.com/3veymyyn???There are also tips in an “ace the interview” article ?https://tinyurl.com/5sa9x99j??

·???????Bain & Company anoints Fran?ois Faelli global managing partner of ESG. He will help Bain “create a more sustainable, equitable and inclusive world.” https://tinyurl.com/2wdm88cx?

·?????BCG is hiring climate activists as part of its drive to make up to one third of its revenue come from sustainability services within the next five years?https://tinyurl.com/2p8h4674

·?????EY plans to recruit 1300 staff in three years for its new sub-brand EY Carbon. The unit will help clients get to net zero. https://tinyurl.com/bdetdsy2

Standing up for Ukraine: both BCG and McKinsey have posted criticism of Russia on the LinkedIn sites linkedin.com/in/oleksandr-kravchenko?and linkedin.com/in/bob-sternfels of senior partners.

Takeovers

·???????Dutch consultancy Valcon has acquired more than 250 technology consultants in Bosnia, Croatia, Romania and Serbia, following its purchase of IT consultancy Typeqast https://tinyurl.com/253b7fzt????The firm already has offices in Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the UK. There are over 60 roles advertised https://tinyurl.com/2ur59akk?including some part-time options.

·???????Another Dutch consultancy BOLD has joined the FTI fold. https://tinyurl.com/3ca7wp8e?Its niche is restructuring, transactions, digital and transformation advisory. There are 66 jobs on FTI’s careers pages https://tinyurl.com/2p8mwcyr?, from Brussels to Mumbai. And the M&A and Activism team at FTI Consulting has a new senior managing director for communications in the US, Pat Tucker. https://tinyurl.com/ycy8c4t3

·???????Pollen Consulting, an Australian supply chain consultancy, has fallen into the arms of operations consultancy Argon?https://tinyurl.com/3fdte3rk?

Global advisory firm Macro Advisory Partners has hired former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney https://tinyurl.com/3yd7nfbh?MAP provides advice on the global post-pandemic economy, the impact of fiscal and monetary policy on international trade, and the digital currency landscape.?

New bosses

·???????11 partner promotions have been announced in Berlin, Brussels, Madrid, Munich and Paris by Roland Berger?https://tinyurl.com/zkpfr3nn ?(There’s also an article on motherhood and consulting https://tinyurl.com/32n4438x ) The strategy house, with a network of over 50 offices, has MBA ?openings on its careers website in Beijing, Berlin, Bucharest, Doha, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Munich, ?Shanghai, Stuttgart, Taipei and Tokyo, including summer internships.

·???????French consultancy PMP had appointed a new managing director to look after operations in both Canada and the UK, Ken Campbell. https://tinyurl.com/55vxrcb6??PMP works for clients in TMT (telecommunications, media and technology), tourism and leisure, transport, energy and banking, and also has ?presence in Belgium and Morocco.

·???????Transformation consultancy Moorhouse of the UK has appointed four new directors https://tinyurl.com/2p8jknaj???For those who want to join the firm, its careers pages https://tinyurl.com/2p8ek4dt?lay out the recruitment requirements for each grade and, refreshingly, the cash on offer – from ￡40k for a junior consultant to ￡200k for a director.

·???????Privately owned businesses in the UK are the target for a new Partner at PwC in Manchester, Emma Suchland. She’ll have over 650 staff reporting https://tinyurl.com/4mxdv3b5 ???

·???????Arthur D Little has a new London partner in its TIME (telecommunications, information, media and entertainment) practice https://tinyurl.com/3emehvst????

?Industry commentators Source Global Research look at inflation and productivity improvement consulting??https://tinyurl.com/mssxa9ry

New offices

·???????Boston Consulting Group has landed in Auckland, New Zealand??https://tinyurl.com/mrybbs9w Some senior staff are being transferred in to kickstart the business, but where will others come from? ?(Hint: you). Sustainability work is high on the agenda.

·???????Dutch strategy boutique Fincog has launched a London operation https://tinyurl.com/2sdw2fr9 . Targeting digital banking and financial services, the firm sees London’s financial hub as a good place to pick up talent and a springboard into other territories. It has Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caribbean in mind. ?https://tinyurl.com/49evyt6u for careers.

Advanced-degree holders such as PhDs and medical doctors are targeted in recruitment drives in the US. Deadlines are coming up fast: McKinsey https://tinyurl.com/ydsbkyrp ?and Bain https://tinyurl.com/bdhcfn6p Including BCG (whose deadline has already passed), there are some 500 spots available.

Ireland

·???????Deloitte is adding 70 consultants in Belfast with the purchase of data and digital transformation consultancy Etain?https://tinyurl.com/mwr8mbbt

·???????KPMG, EY and Mazars enjoyed a significant share of the €30m spent on professional advice by the Irish Government last year https://tinyurl.com/49kjfauh??

·???????Irish financial services consultancy CubeMatch, which already has offices in Amsterdam, Chennai, Dublin, Frankfurt, London and Singapore????https://tinyurl.com/2cs58bjm ?has opened its international headquarters in the Irish capital.

Lists

We love lists – a ready made source of firm names to target. Website ManagementConsulted.com comes up trumps again with its annual survey of the Top 25 in the US. https://tinyurl.com/4eny46fn????And for the UK, the Financial Times of 28th January publishes its list of leading firms. ?Australia - ?consultancies feature amongst the Top 100 graduate employers https://tinyurl.com/yc8a4mu8???

Financial Results

·???????Oliver Wyman ?recorded 21% growth and fee income of$2.5bn in 2021 https://tinyurl.com/3jxbnta3??- 279 jobs are featured on its recruitment site, including Atlanta, Hamburg, Riyadh, ?Sao Paulo and Sydney - https://tinyurl.com/2w2ykexj .

·???????Cognizant announced https://tinyurl.com/mpzn37zh ?11% growth and $18.5bn turnover.

“Why do consultancies love personality tests?” asks the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence https://tinyurl.com/9cr3sykr??

Manchester

·???????Dutch M&A consultancy Marklist https://tinyurl.com/c5hkdfju?has started an operation in the city. More careers information here: https://tinyurl.com/2p9x4dn7

·???????Manchester welcomes Theta Global Advisors IPO and M&A consultants to a new office, its second since launching in 2016 in London. https://tinyurl.com/2bby4r9c?

Mastercard is seeking 500 cryptocurrency consultants for its digital currency consultancy Data And Service division. https://tinyurl.com/53vv5by5 These are likely to be new/recent graduates and early-stage professionals.

England netball international Selena Guthrie has joined innovation consultancy Ayling as a special adviser in its people, performance and development practice. https://tinyurl.com/3dpxn2z8?There are seven innovation and R&D consulting roles available in its London office https://tinyurl.com/2vhkufuv

Success Stories: congratulations to the undergraduates, Masters, MBAs and PhDs from Bayes Birmingham Cambridge De Montford Durham King’s Liverpool Loughborough Lyon Nottingham Trent Rotterdam Strathclyde and Warwick who contacted me to report joining Accenture (London) Boston Consulting Group (London and New York) Capgemini Invent (London) Cognizant (New York) Deloitte (London) EY (Amsterdam), Fishawack (Cheshire) Kea Partners (Paris) KPMG (Lagos and London Mastercard (Kiev) PA Consulting London PwC (London) Roland Berger (Paris) and Strategy& (London) as new consultants.

During March I’ll be speaking about careers in consultancy at Aston Business School, Durham, ESCP. Loughborough, Sheffield and Strathclyde.

Anyone wishing to arrange a 1:1 session should email me at [email protected]

The next newsletter will be published at the beginning of April.

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Don Leslie?Careers and Consultancy?London?+44 (0)203 051 8540?+44 (0)7812 056 [email protected]?www.donleslie.uk