Senior Consultant

Altman Solon Senior Consultant

Altman Solon is a strategy consulting group that focuses exclusively on the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) related sectors. As the largest global TMT strategy firm, we assist clients in fast, high-impact, confident decision making. We enable clients to seize new opportunities, improve performance, and increase shareholder value within complex and converging industries.

Trusted Leader with Industry Expertise and Innovative Approaches

• As the leading pure play communications and media strategy consulting group globally, we assist operating companies and financial groups in fast, high-impact, confident decision making
• Deep industry knowledge and advanced analytics allow us to develop more actionable insights and recommendations, delivering better advice, more quickly – we succeed in building long-term client relationships because of the results we deliver
• Altman Solon’s industry focus and shorter average project duration allows employees to quickly gain exposure to a breadth of projects and develop an expertise in TMT along with a sophisticated consulting toolkit

Growing Firm with an Entrepreneurial Spirit & Inclusive Culture

• The size of our organization allows our Senior Consultants to constantly experience new challenges and growth opportunities while building relationships with senior Altman Solon team members who are recognized as experts in their field
• Senior Consultants play a key role in shaping the future of our firm and culture – from serving as role-models for more junior staff to spearheading internal initiatives to leaving a lasting impression on clients
• We realize work/life fit is important to our Senior Consultants. Our default schedule is a low-travel model, accelerating our Senior Consultants professional growth and helping them build meaningful relationships with peers and mentors. Eligible employees can design their own or choose from an array of flexible work programs, such as reduced work year, sabbaticals, internal rotations, and extended parental leave.

Flat Teams, Collaborative Philosophy, Personalized Support

• We offer Senior Consultants strategic projects, client interaction, and personalized support that enable each person to advance quickly and develop a well-rounded career based on their own strengths
• Our small size, collaborative culture, and tailored approach to learning and development results in faster role advancement and professional growth throughout your career with us

The Senior Consultant role is a mid-level role and is open to experienced professionals with at least 5 years' relevant experience or an M.B.A. and 3 years' experience. As a Senior Consultant at Altman Solon, you will play a critical role in leading teams through project analyses, formulating recommendations, and presenting findings to clients. Responsibilities include:

• Guiding day-to-day activities of one or more project workstreams, typically owning a workstream while also managing teams of analysts and consultants across a variety of activities, including:

• Market sizing, business model development, and other quantitative analyses
• Primary and secondary research, including survey design and analysis and interviews with subject matter experts
• Development of original frameworks and strategies including customer segmentation, go-to-market strategies, churn reduction initiatives, etc.

• Assuming a key role with clients as day-to-day contact, ensuring we are providing innovative and actionable solutions to their most critical problems
• Leading deck development and presentation of key findings and recommendations to our clients
• Developing content-specific knowledge while supporting business development efforts and building client relationships
• Supporting ongoing internal firm-building initiatives including recruiting, mentoring junior staff, diversity and inclusion initiatives, community service, and other special projects

We are looking for a Senior Consultant who can:

Independently plan and execute on one or more research and/or analysis tasks. This includes:

• Creating workplans from the project’s high level goals, setting efficient yet practical deadlines, and developing an approach to the research and/or analysis needed
• Leveraging problem solving skills to generate frameworks and structure the client’s business problem into logical manageable components that will guide their growth strategy
• Remaining flexible and adaptable when goals or deadlines shift, and being able to scale a workstream to meet the client’s needs
• Leading junior staff in designing financial and operational models and conducting secondary and primary research gathering activities, including surveys and expert interviews
• Synthesizing complex data and qualitative information into meaningful insights

Meaningfully contribute to the team’s efforts in achieving client goals. This includes:

• Confidently communicating complex ideas and concepts via verbal, written, and visual means

• Playing an active role in formulating the full storyline of the project, and being able to distill the key information into an executive narrative
• Establishing a viewpoint on what key questions should be prioritized beyond what’s articulated in the explicit agreement and developing hypotheses that address those questions
• Developing content mastery and bringing in learnings from outside material or prior projects

Effectively manage one to two Analysts. This includes:

• Delegating work effectively, offering clear goals for the output while leaving the Analyst or Consultant room to be creative and have ownership over their approach
• Proactively quality checking Analyst work, probing on methodology taken and results obtained
• Taking time to teach best practices and provide ample positive and constructive feedback empathetically, guiding their professional development and ensuring a positive project experience

Enthusiastically contribute to firm growth and culture. A great Senior Consultant:

• Enjoys working with teams and able to effectively lead junior staff
• Is dedicated to producing high-quality output with integrity and exceptional attention to detail
• Enjoys contributing to internal firm life and culture, including recruiting, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and special projects
• Has passion for learning and interest in TMT industry, with ability to absorb information quickly and effectively and a growth mindset

Available locations: Boston, MA, New York, NY,  Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA

Compensation: $185k + Performance bonus

Benefits include, among other things: paid time off, health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long term disability, short term disability, and 401(k) with company match.

We believe that equal employment opportunity is a key principle for the successful operation of any business, and especially ours. We are committed to ensuring that all employees, at all levels, feel supported, feel a sense of belonging, and are equally invested in the success of our shared work. This starts with ensuring that we draw the most talented people from all backgrounds. If your access to educational or extracurricular opportunities has been impacted by factors you would like to make us aware of, please include this information in your cover letter if you choose to submit one. 

Altman Solon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and E-Verify user. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or other protected status. 

Please note, we are unable to provide sponsorship for employment visa status for this role. Please see below for additional information regarding sponsorship:

• If your responses regarding your work authorization and/or sponsorship needs are inconsistent between your application and the information you provide us at any point thereafter, Altman Solon reserves the right to discontinue consideration for employment. (E.g. if you note in your application that you do not require sponsorship, but upon receiving an offer you inform the firm that you will require sponsorship at any point, the firm reserves the right to discontinue consideration for employment.)
• Please note: both H1-B and TN are visas that require employer sponsorship

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