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Alex

Partner

“OC&C appealed to me because the firm is young and fast-growing.”

After my studies I became a management trainee at a telecommunication company in Hong Kong, but gravitated to strategy consulting in search of something less routine and formalised, and more intellectually challenging. OC&C appealed to me because the firm is young and fast-growing, which of course means loads of opportunities and the people are all so enthusiastic.

Working on an expansion strategy project for a beverage company in Indonesia where we didn’t even speak the language was pretty challenging! It let me learn the foundation work of doing market sizing/competitive analysis, customer home visits in cities throughout the country to understand customer preference, visiting warehouses/distribution centres to understand the supply chain operation, and traversing a forest in search of a spring suitable for production.

OC&C is truly internationalised, and your team is never limited to your own office colleagues. I have enjoyed working with colleagues from other offices through the ambassador program, and learning about the different working approaches, cultural values and management styles.

Sara

Associate Consultant

I studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College Cambridge and then went on to complete a PhD at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology. After focusing on one topic for four years during my PhD, I really wanted a change to a fast-paced career that involved a breadth of experiences and challenges – which is exactly what strategy consulting has offered.

Projects are relatively short at OC&C so you will gain insight into multiple industries and get to work with a wide variety of people within months of joining. As a result, you are constantly learning and won’t have a chance to remain in your comfort zone for long. The strong sense of teamwork means that navigating these challenges is always a collaborative process and generally lots of fun!

OC&C is full of smart and interesting people with great senses of humour. It’s the combination of interesting, challenging work and the outstanding people that make working at OC&C such a pleasure.

Anthony

Associate Partner

I've found work-life at OC&C alternately interesting, amusing, stretching and tough - but above all enjoyable. During the tough times the people around you help to get you through. Plus I feel I've developed both professionally and in terms of the perspective I have on what's important in life - and what is less so!

What is the best thing about working at OC&C? The things that first appealed are still a large part of what has kept me here, and what make me enthusiastic about the firm. The quality of the people I work with, and the sense of achievement when we deliver insightful conclusions to clients and change the way they think about their business, make it a very rewarding place to work. In addition, the supportive nature of the firm and close involvement of directors and senior consultants throughout projects makes OC&C a place in which you learn rapidly and are given every opportunity to succeed.

OC&C's own stellar success over the last several years has made it a great place to work -- mainly because the challenges keep getting bigger and bigger. Being bored is not an option! There is also a strong entrepreneurial ethos -- if you have something to say that will benefit the client then you are encouraged to say it; we're small enough that every consultant counts!

Dan

Associate Partner

After two and a half years at OC&C, I decided that I wanted to get a taste for what life would be like in a ‘real’ job. When the opportunity arose to join Manchester United, the club I have supported all my life, it was too good to miss. I was seconded to work at Old Trafford for four months, working closely with the commercial director to help determine United’s business strategy, and to implement various projects to drive forward the club’s off-field performance. The whole experience was absolutely fantastic, teaching me a lot about life on ‘the other side of the table’ – and helping me to fulfil my boyhood dream of playing a game on the hallowed turf!

The job is constantly changing, and it evolves as quickly as your skills do, so you are always learning. In general, you go from answering a specific problem to answering the broader question, and I am now responsible for presenting and delivering the project answer, rather than an individual piece of analysis. As a Manager, I typically have a team of other consultants working for me, and it’s my responsibility to guide them on the analysis and problem solving they do.

What is the best thing about working at OC&C? There are so many good people here; people who you’d always want on your team and, at the same time, who you’d want to have a beer with after work. That’s what defines an OC&C consultant.

Leonie

Associate Partner

After studying History at university, I joined a retail graduate scheme and four and a half years later joined OC&C as a Consultant.

Strategy consulting has delivered against everything I was hoping for when I moved from retail. The work is fast-paced, intellectually challenging and enables you to gain a level of insight into business strategy that would otherwise be impossible to achieve within the industry at the start of your career. Also, the people are incredibly bright and committed to performing to the best of their abilities.

OC&C offers a client list and a standard of work that is equivalent to the other top strategy consulting firms, yet is of a size that means the associate consultants and consultants are far from anonymous. Work life at OC&C can be tough, but is always rewarding. The work consistently stretches you, ensuring that your learning is maximised, and the team-based approach to project work means you can make a big contribution at all levels within the organisation.

Mandeep

Associate Consultant

I studied Natural Sciences & Management at Cambridge during which I did an internship at OC&C and was subsequently offered a full time role. At OC&C not only are you a valuable member of the team from the start, but you get to work on important projects which have significant consequences. Working on a project which might end up making headlines is what gets me up in the morning!

Variety makes the career even more challenging but far more exciting. It's rare that you'll be on the same project, or even type of project, for very long. Instead you'll be working with different companies, sectors and industries, sometimes in any part of the country (or world). I know here I might have to learn about a new industry, which I'd never even heard of, in a single day.

Even if I don't remain a strategy consultant forever, OC&C is a great way to start my career, and the huge variety of sectors and careers that OC&C leavers enter is testament to this.

Max

Consultant

I chose to work in consulting as I was looking to work in a sector where the type of work and the challenges one faces vary widely and are actually interesting. Consultancy is a unique career in that one is literally never faced with the same problem twice.

In terms of the team, upon joining OC&C, I expected everyone to be very hard working, bright and committed. What positively surprised me is that the people I have met here are not just that. Rather, everyone adds quite a “human” element to life in the office – most people I have met have an interesting quality or some slightly mad hobby or passion.

And finally in terms of meritocracy, OC&C again pushes hard – from the beginning, and more so with time spent here, you really feel the learning curve from project to project and there is a strong initiative to identify skills which one wants and needs to develop further and focusing on these.

Nic

Associate Partner

Before joining OC&C, I did a 4-year Physics degree at St John's, Oxford.

I chose strategy consulting because I strongly believe it's the most interesting job in the world (as well as being nicely remunerated!) and I chose OC&C very simply because, of all the people I met at recruitment presentations, they were the ones I got on with best.

I would describe work life at OC&C as fascinating, eclectic, at times a bit hectic, and always stretching - every week I learn new things. I spend about 75% of my time running projects: leading the team, working out the answer, persuading the client and helping them think about how they actually go about doing it. The other 25% is split between firm development (making OC&C an ever-better business) and supporting the Partners in selling work.

What’s the best thing about working at OC&C?

- the virtuous circle of culture and people. A culture in which everyone cares about doing an excellent job, which makes work a pleasure and which encourages eclecticism of interest turns out to appeal to the brightest and best undergraduates and MBAs who join OC&C
- being a part of OC&C's growth and development: we've come a long way, but there are still so many things which anyone in the firm could take an interested in and make the company even stronger

Vivek

Partner

Before joining OC&C I had a fairly unusual mix of careers before joining the firm. A degree in History at Cambridge didn't set me up with a vocation (!), so I experimented with vocations before switching tack completely to get a Chartered Accountant qualification with Ernst & Young. Unsurprisingly, I left accounting to join OC&C as soon as I'd qualified!

I loved the fact that consultants were out there to tackle issues that were really important to clients and I chose to move to OC&C because I knew I wasn't interested in a consulting firm with a rule book.

OC&C's own stellar success over the last several years has made it a great place to work mainly because the challenges keep getting bigger and bigger. There is also a strong entrepreneurial ethos - if you have something to say that will benefit the client then you are encouraged to say it; we're small enough that every consultant counts!

Will

Partner

I joined OC&C after reading Engineering at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Strategy consulting appealed as a career because it combined the intellectual challenge I was looking for with many of the things I’d found lacking in most of the engineering placements I had done: colleagues with consistently high levels of ability and motivation, rapid development opportunities and the ability to influence the key decisions made by businesses right from the start of my career.

I was keen to join a firm where strategy was the core of the business rather than an adjunct to much larger operational and systems consulting divisions; a firm that was large enough to offer a broad range of experience and opportunity but small enough for people to feel a sense of ownership and be able to make a difference. OC&C was one of a small number of companies that fitted those criteria. My final decision came down to the people I’d met through the recruitment process. They seemed bright, enthusiastic and committed to their work, but also committed to enjoying life both in and out of work.

The things that first appealed about OC&C are still a large part of what has kept me here, and what make me enthusiastic about the firm. The quality of the people I work with, and the sense of achievement when we deliver insightful conclusions to clients and change the way they think about their business, make it a very rewarding place to work.

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