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The Associate position is a full-time entry level consulting staff position. Associate positions are for candidates with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and July 2027.

About the Role

From day one, you'll work alongside experienced consultants and senior executives to help organizations solve complex strategic, operational, financial, and organizational challenges. As an Associate working in one of our advisory practices, you'll contribute to high-impact engagements that help clients improve performance, accelerate growth, optimize operations, and navigate change in an increasingly dynamic business environment.

You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver practical, data-driven solutions that create measurable value for clients. Whether supporting strategy, operational transformation, performance improvement, organizational effectiveness, or technology-enabled change, you'll play an important role in helping organizations achieve their most critical business objectives.

What You'll Do

As an Associate, you'll be an integral member of project teams, partnering with consultants and client leaders to analyze complex business challenges, develop actionable recommendations, and support implementation efforts. You'll gain exposure to a variety of industries, business functions, and executive-level initiatives while building the analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills that define successful consultants.

Your work will combine quantitative and qualitative analysis, strategic thinking, and client collaboration. Responsibilities may include:

• Conducting market, operational, financial, and organizational analyses to support board and executive decision-making.

• Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

• Developing board- and executive-ready presentations, reports, dashboards, and other client deliverables.

• Supporting strategic planning, operational improvement, organizational transformation, and business process optimization initiatives.

• Building financial models, business cases, and implementation roadmaps that support client recommendations.

• Performing industry, competitive, and market research to inform strategic decisions.

• Facilitating client workshops, interviews, and working sessions to gather insights and align stakeholders.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop innovative, practical solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

We're looking for analytical problem-solvers with strong communication skills from diverse academic and professional backgrounds who are eager to take on challenges and thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in economics, mathematics, data science, statistics, finance, accounting, healthcare administration, healthcare informatics, engineering, environmental science or a related field. A GPA of 3.5 or higher is highly desirable.

• Experience: 0-2 years of work experience, including internships.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Excel is required; experience with MS SQL Server, R, Python, Stata, SAS, Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx, Databricks, or Teradata is highly desirable. The willingness and interest to expand into these capabilities is a must.

• Research: Ability to perform complex research accurately, thoroughly, and efficiently.

• Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to structure ambiguous challenges, analyze data, and develop actionable insights.

• Collaboration & Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly to different audiences.

• Adaptability & Initiative: Thrives in a dynamic work environment, with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion.

Our Practice Areas

Associates are hired to support project workaligned to one of BRG's practice areas,though there may be flexibility to work across multiple practice areas. Candidates can select a preferred practice area as part of the application process. You can find more information aboutsome of the practice areasbelow.

1. Healthcare Advisory: As healthcare organizations navigate increasing reimbursement pressure, workforce challenges, regulatory and enforcement complexity, and rapid technological change, we work alongside executive teams and governing bodies to identify opportunities, implement practical solutions, and deliver measurable, lasting results. Our integrated team combines deep industry expertise across strategy, revenue management, operational excellence, clinical transformation, and technology and AI with the comprehensive capabilities of a global advisory firm and the agility, senior attention, and client service of a boutique consultancy. From strategy through implementation, we help clients solve their most complex challenges, accelerate performance improvement, and build organizations positioned for long-term success.

2. Energy & Climate: We are a leading energy consulting team that helps clients across the global energy value chain address complex strategic, commercial, financial, market, regulatory, and dispute-related issues. Our work spans power and utilities, oil and gas, renewables, storage, advanced nuclear, eMobility, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels, carbon management, infrastructure, and the broader energy transition. The team supports energy companies, utilities, independent power producers, investors, developers, technology companies, government agencies, and legal counsel on market strategy, commercial and transaction diligence, project economics, policy and regulatory issues, expert testimony, economic damages analysis, arbitration and litigation, and other high-stakes business challenges.

3. Financial Institutions Advisory: We are a trusted advisor to leading financial services companies. Our professionals bring the right mix of functional expertise and include CPAs, CROs, CRCMs, former regulators, FRMs, data scientists, PhDs, and consultants who drive lasting improvements. We work to help clients meet and execute strategies related to risk and regulation, compliance, financial crime, innovations in technology, accounting, cryptocurrency and blockchain, business process outsourcing, the Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering, lookbacks, data quality, and evolving customer experience expectations.

4. Construction: We specialize in providing our clients with budgetary and payment oversight, project management recommendations, project scheduling generation, and constructability and viability analyses for both upcoming and ongoing construction projects. With our team of engineers with years of field construction experience, we assist our clients in securing the best outcomes for their projects, minimizing their exposure to potential future claims or disputes, and ensuring that their jobs are completed on schedule and within budget. It is recommended that candidates display an understanding of the construction industry and have a prior familiarity with project scheduling interfaces, such as Microsoft Project or Primavera P6.

Locations

Associates will primarily be hired in locations like Washington DC, Boston, New York, and Chicago. There are also a limited number of opportunities in smaller offices like Tampa and Pittsburgh). Associates are expected to work a minimum of 3 days per week from an office, though we highly encourage new Associates to work from the office as often as possible.

Remote roles for practices that require frequent travel to client sites are also available.

How to Apply

Interestedcandidates shouldsubmita copy of their resume, cover letter and transcript through the job postingby September 14.When applying, please answer the questionnaire toindicateyour location and practice area preferences. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Amember of the recruiting team will be in touch if there is an interest in scheduling interviews.

Salary Range: $85,000 - $100,000

Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the United States, without company sponsorship now or in the future.

This job will remain open until September 14, 2026, and resumes will be reviewed for consideration during the fall recruiting cycle. Candidates should expect to hear about consideration for interviews before November 2026.

About BRG

BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.

At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.

Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients' challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.

At BRG, we don't just show you what's possible. We're built to help you make it happen.

BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.