Senior Associate, Strategic Insights and Projects

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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Strategic Insights and Projects to join our Growth & Strategy organization.

Responsibilities:

• Support key strategic projects to drive the US Chief Strategy Officer agenda; KPMG’s Market Intelligence (MI) Group provides data driven, actionable insights that drive leadership decisions and strategy at the firm, function, sector and account levels; the team systematically mines a global network of internal and external sources to identify signals, patterns, threats and opportunities for KPMG to prioritize operational and strategic decisions with the aim to “future-proof” KPMG’s position as a market leader; the MI team reports to the US Chief Strategy Officer and Global Strategic Relations & Investments leadership
• Perform deep-dive analyses across the competitive landscape in the context of KPMG’s strategy, market position and investment roadmap to reveal emerging opportunities and threats; these projects include market expansion/entry/exit, competitive deep dives, trend exploration (e.g., emerging technology, talent insights), as well as other high-priority initiatives under the US Chief Strategy Officer agenda
• Support the development of a quarterly trend report to inform key senior leadership constituencies (US Management Committee, Global Management Team, etc.) of the most consequential strategic insights; this high-impact deliverable will translate relevant emerging trend inputs from across the team (and firm at large) into contextualized data-driven insight
• Contribute domain expertise for strategic sectors such as healthcare, fintech, insurance and strategic topics such as IoT, Blockchain, AI, ESG
• Report to the Director of Strategic Projects with support from onshore resources as well as an extended team of offshore colleagues

Qualifications:

• Minimum three years of current and/or recent management consulting/strategy experience or experience in corporate innovation, new product/service development, or market research
• Bachelor’s degree in a business and/or quantitative related field from an accredited college or university
• Strong project management, research, communication, and presentation skills; demonstrated ability to work with and lead discussions with cross-functional stakeholders
• Proven ability to leverage data analysis techniques and tools to discern market patterns and generate actionable insights; broad strategic thinker with an interest and ability to work with a dynamic team across a wide range of technology, policy, social and economic issues
• Strong ability to manage competing priorities; self-starter with initiative, comfort with ambiguity and interest in being part of a fast paced, high impact team
• Client service experience strongly preferred and a willingness and ability to travel 10%

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