Associate, Innovation Consultant

Description

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today’s most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It’s also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it’s no wonder we’re consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Inc. and others. If you’re as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.

KPMG is currently seeking an Associate – Innovation Consultant to join our KPMG Ignition within our Growth and Strategy organization.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with industry, practice, and lab team leadership to plan sessions
• Create tasks to include designing agendas and exercises, coordinating operations, logistics and preparing materials and inputs
• Aid in facilitating sessions, include facilitating exercises, capturing session outputs, and contributing to a seamless client experience
• Present innovation research and points of view, engaging effectively with C-level executives in trends insights and design thinking sessions
• Conduct innovation research to mine signals of change, from an outside-in perspective; make correlations across industries and themes, finding patterns in adjacent spaces; develop strategic insights and points of view, synthesizing disparate inputs into future projections
• Develop and manage project plans and understand project financials

Qualifications:

• Minimum one year of recent experience in design thinking, facilitation, training, or similar industries
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
• Ability to deal with complexity and ambiguity in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Excellent research, analytical, design thinking and presentation skills required
• Strong operation skills and attention to detail; ability to work on different projects and deliver high quality deliverables in committed time frames
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Power Point, Word, Excel, and Outlook; ability to learn new analytical tools
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future

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