Summer Placement - Management Consultant at Arcadis

Where: England - Greater London

Deadline: January 8, 2018

Type: Internship

About the Company:

ARCADIS is the leading Global Natural and Built Asset Design & Consultancy Firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services

About the Role:

Undertaking our Summer Placement Management Consulting programme at Arcadis will provide an opportunity to support the development and delivery of best in class built and natural asset consulting solutions. The role sits within the growing and dynamic Business Advisory team and as an Arcadis Management Consultant, you will be focused on helping our clients solve their most pressing issues and maximise value through improved business performance. A successful candidate will bring a creative and intelligent approach to solution creation, design and delivery. The programme will also enable the candidate to develop core consulting techniques and tools that can be applied whilst working with our UK and global clients.

Your Day-to-Day:

  • The role will bring responsibility to the successful candidates from the very beginning with a chance to work directly with clients from your first week. There are no set day-to-day responsibilities due to the flexible nature of our client’s needs across the variety of Sectors and Service Lines we operate in. However, a good Summer Placement Management Consultant would typically:
  • Act as a resource on projects to support the successful delivery of outputs individually or as part of a team
  • Develop a good understanding of client issues and be able to contribute to project delivery
  • Use innovation and creativity to deliver solutions which create positive outcomes for clients
  • Proactively seek personal development opportunities by immersing themselves in the extensive learning opportunities from each project, as well as internal training
  • Contribute to internal, non-client facing activities within the Business Advisory team and throughout Arcadis
  • Develop a professional network throughout the business to utilise the wealth of knowledge, expertise and best practice consulting techniques helping deliver informed solutions to our clients
  • Support and deliver workshops/internal meetings to help our community grow and develop

Requirements:

  • Studying a BSc/BA/MSc Degree in a relevant analytical subject
  • Potential to be a future business leader
  • Highly flexible and able to quickly grasp new ideas and concepts
  • Keen and able to learn quickly
  • Willing to travel and stay away from home when working on client sites
  • An effective team worker with strong interpersonal and relationship building skills excellent at building both internal and client relationships
  • Articulate and confident communicator, effective in verbal and non-verbal communications
  • Can deliver and structure work, with the proven ability to deliver pieces of work from start to finish i.e. problem definition, hypothesis generation data gathering, analysis and findings, solution development
  • Effective research, data gathering, and analysis skills
  • IT competent (including MS Excel)
  • Proactive, dedicated and tenacious, shown through both academic and extra-curricular achievement

How to Apply:

For more information and to apply please visit Career Connect and search Reference ID 'EA6D7'