U.S. Senior Associate​/Associate Consultant - Operations & Supply Chain

U.S. Senior Associate / Associate Consultant – Operations & Supply Chain 2025

Location: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco

L.E.K. Consulting is one of the premier strategy consulting firms worldwide. At L.E.K., we are passionate about helping our clients succeed with breakthrough insights that drive real impact. Our clients view us as trusted partners that help address their most pressing challenges and biggest opportunities. We bring together the rigor of data‑driven analysis with the creativity and curiosity of a collaborative team.

By hiring exceptional people and fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous learning, we develop leaders who thrive on challenges and bring energy, optimism, and drive to every engagement. Founded in 1983, L.E.K. employs more than 2,200 professionals across five continents, and is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s best firms to work for.

Our Organization & Performance (O&P) practice empowers clients to align their organizational structures and operations with strategic objectives, driving sustainable growth and enhanced performance. Within this practice, our Operations & Supply Chain team supports clients in evolving their supply‑chain strategies and improving performance across the end‑to‑end supply chain. We specialize in six core capabilities.

• Supply chain strategy:
  Designing supply chain models aligned to business goals—optimizing footprint, operating model, and capabilities to drive efficiency and growth.
• Planning:
  Improving demand forecasting, S&OP, and inventory management to enhance supply‑demand alignment and decision‑making.
• Procurement:
  Identifying sourcing opportunities, strengthening supplier strategies, and delivering cost savings through smarter purchasing practices.
• Manufacturing:
  Boosting manufacturing performance through productivity improvements, network optimization, and digital enablement.
• Distribution:
  Refining distribution networks and operations to improve cost‑efficiency, customer service, and scalability.
• Logistics:
  Optimizing transportation and last‑mile logistics to reduce costs and improve service through smarter network design and execution.

Operations & Supply Chain Senior Associates / Associate Consultants drive our insights for clients. You will quickly take on significant responsibilities as you play a crucial role on each case team, gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing research and data to address the client’s core issues. Your ability to uncover novel information, conduct rigorous analysis, solve problems creatively, and communicate your high‑quality work is critical to the breakthroughs that make a lasting impact for our clients.

A collaborative mindset, positive outlook and a drive to learn and lead are key to success in this role.

• Develop problem‑solving frameworks to solve operational issues.
• Conduct analysis, benchmarking and research.
• Own work streams, synthesize data into actionable recommendations, and help shape client strategies on pressing business issues.
• Coach and guide junior team members, helping build capabilities across the case team.
• Collaborate closely with team members to present findings and recommendations to clients through compelling written and verbal communication.

As part of the role, you may be asked to travel to client sites. These opportunities allow for deeper client engagement, broader exposure, and meaningful contributions to our work. We ask that you remain flexible in supporting these travel needs as part of your professional experience at L.E.K.

L.E.K. offers Senior Associates / Associate Consultants the broadest range of fast‑paced, high‑impact, and diverse cases for maximum learning. We are also committed to investing in your training and development and fostering excellent analytical and leadership skills to prepare you for your progression in tenure, as well as for potential future opportunities in top graduate schools or roles in industry, non‑profits, start‑ups, or investment firms.

In addition to very competitive compensation and benefits, we promote…