Consulting Intern - Summer 2024 (Chicago)

The Opportunity

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. 

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to put possible into practice by creating sound strategies, optimizing operations, accelerating digital transformation, and empowering business and their people to own their future. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas, and challenging the status quo, we create sustainable results for the organizations we serve. 

Our Consulting Intern Industry Areas 
• Digital - As a Digital Consulting Intern, you will work across a variety of industries on technology and technology related projects. Huron Digital is a leader in cloud implementations with significant Oracle, Workday, and Salesforce expertise. We offer inspiring capabilities in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence, Data Integration, and so much more. 
• Healthcare - As a Healthcare Consulting Intern, you’ll aid our clients to evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment. You’ll have the opportunity to help our clients stabilize business operations today and create tomorrow’s growth by implementing revenue enhancement and cost containment programs, upgrading technology systems, creating stronger leaders, and improving outcomes for patients. 
• Higher Education - Research Enterprise Solutions - As a Research Enterprise Solutions Consulting Intern, you’ll learn best practices in research areas including research compliance and risk management, operations performance improvement, technology implementations support, strategy and financial planning, and interim staffing management. You’ll play an integral role in ensuring clients are able to improve business processes and utilize technology to drive efficiency within the research administration space. 
• Higher Education - Strategy & Operations - As a Higher Education Strategy & Operations Consulting Intern, you’ll help institutions across Higher Education turn challenges of today into the opportunities of tomorrow. You’ll use innovative problem solving and analytical thinking to shape client’s organizational strategy, improve financial operations, and enhance administrative efficiencies. You’ll play an integral part in helping institutions innovate for success and better serve their students, staff, and communities.

Qualifications

Our Interns join us from a wide range of backgrounds and make an immediate impact working as part of a team committed to developing creative insights, implementing, and designing processes, and driving tangible results. We provide access to the training and coaching you need while you work independently or in group settings to get hands-on experience in building effective relationships and creating solutions for our clients.

With a solution-oriented approach, you will collaborate with team members to critically think, and problem solve to execute the implementation of effective processes and strategies for clients. As an Intern, you’ll spend your summer working on a client project with a project team. In addition to client work, you will also get a chance to participate in various team culture initiatives and social events.

Responsibilities may include:

• Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and communicating synthesized results to senior internal team members to inform client deliverables
• Collaborating with internal team members during projects, including presenting key takeaways, communicating project updates, and organizing overall project logistics
• Engaging with colleagues across the industry group to develop innovative and industry-leading methodologies that better serve our clients
• Attending regular client meetings to identify and analyze key metrics for both internal and client leadership teams

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Advanced or highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office products (e.g. Microsoft Visio and Outlook)
• Strong performance in your degree of choice with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
• Bachelor’s degree obtained by May/June 2025
• Willingness to be based in Chicago, IL for the duration of the internship
• A consulting role with Huron requires travel to client sites. The nature and frequency of travel will depend on the specific project requirements and client needs.
• U.S. work authorization required

Application Materials

• Current Resume
• Unofficial Transcript

Office Location: Chicago, IL

The compensation for this job is $30/hr. The represents a good faith estimate of the rate that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting.

Posting Category

Generalist

Opportunity Type

Intern (Trainee)

Country

United States of America