Job Description
We are a people business. Talent is our main source of competitive advantage, so we are always looking for exceptional consultants to join our team. If you are analytical, curious about business, possess strong commercial acumen, have a mania for accuracy, and enjoy working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, then we would love to hear from you.
About you
If you recognize yourself in the following attributes, you are likely to do well at Fairgrove:
Intellectually curious about business
Everyone here has an excellent academic record. More importantly, we like to ask ‘how?’ and ‘why?’. We enjoy tackling new challenges, learning about new businesses and markets, and solving our clients’ problems.
Strong commercial acumen
The best consultants are quick to ascertain the root cause of why a market is growing or in decline, or why one company outperforms another. Often this is intuitive. In assessing business plans, you need the ability to tell a realistic goal from a pipe dream.
Personable
The ability to rapidly forge relationships with clients and their customers is key. Effecting change within an organisation requires empathy, diplomacy and a human touch.
What we offer
We are an ambitious, high-growth firm, with an informal, entrepreneurial culture and a close-knit team. You will have direct exposure to senior staff and clients from a very early stage, and will gain a huge variety of experience across multiple sectors, solving interesting strategic challenges on a daily basis. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the day-to-day running and development of the firm. We offer competitive remuneration packages, and have a busy social calendar.
Experienced hires
Fairgrove are interested in recruiting for the following roles:
- Experienced Hire (>12 months experience)
- Independent Consultants (project-based)
Given the very high number of applications that we receive, we may not reply to you unless you meet the following criteria:
- 1st or 2.1 from a leading University
- The legal right to live and work in the UK
The following criteria are not strictly necessary but may confer advantage at interview:
- Prior experience in strategy consulting or in serving a Private Equity client base (particularly for Experienced Hires and Independent Consultants)
- Fluency in European languages, especially French or German
We aim to reply to all speculative applications through the website – provided that they meet our Application Criteria – within 2 weeks.
We are committed to preventing discrimination in our employment practices by stimulating genuine equality of opportunity. It is our intention that no person will receive less favourable treatment or consideration on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, and that no employee (or potential employee) will be disadvantaged by any terms and conditions of employment or Company policy, procedure or practice which cannot be justified as necessary on operational grounds.