Associate (Aug 2025)

Your role

Associates drive their insights for clients. They will quickly take on significant responsibilities as they play a crucial role on each case team, gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing research and data to address the client’s core issues. Their ability to uncover novel information, conduct rigorous analysis, solve problems creatively, and communicate their high-quality work is critical to the breakthroughs that make a lasting impact for our clients.

While casework varies every day, Associates’ primary responsibilities typically include:

• Conducting primary and secondary research on clients’ markets, customers, and competitors
• Performing rigorous analysis to drive insights and actionable recommendations
• Collaborating with team members to communicate key findings to the client in written presentations and verbal interactions that deliver maximum impact

About you

• A bachelor’s degree from a renowned school with outstanding academic achievement
• Strong analytics
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Significant professional experiences
• Demonstrated leadership and initiative

Compensation & Benefits

L.E.K. Consulting offers competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience.

• The yearly salary for this role is $95,000 (USD)
• L.E.K. also offers a performance bonus, profit sharing, and other benefits such as, flexible schedules and additional time off. 

Training & Development

Training at L.E.K. includes a world-class formal professional development program starting on day one, with regular cohort-based sessions, regional and global events, and access to an online library of over 500 learning experiences, supplemented by on-the-job training through exposure to diverse industries, new business issues, and senior executive challenges, as well as mentorship and coaching. The coaching culture of L.E.K. fosters both formal and informal mentor relationships.

Career Progression

L.E.K. recruits the best and the brightest, then offers them the broadest range of high-impact, frequent, and diverse cases for maximum learning. They are also committed to providing excellent analytical and leadership skills for their progression in tenure, as well as for any future opportunities in top graduate schools or roles in industry, non-profits, start-ups, or investment firms. 

Source

• lek.com/join-lek/the-lek-career/training-and-professional-development
• lek.com/join-lek/the-lek-career/flexible-work-options
• youtube.com/@lekconsulting