Best Consulting Firms in EMEA to Work For
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Stax EMEA
Stax is a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-backed companies, hedge funds, and investment banks across a broad range of industries. The firm partners with clients to provide data-driven, actionable insights designed to drive growth, enhance profits, increase value, and make better investment decisions.
SCORE 9.625
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Bain & Company EMEA
Bain & Company may operate presence in dozens of countries—with 26 offices in Europe, the Middle East & Africa—but that doesn’t keep the “heart” of the Big Three from functioning as one firm. Whichever path you pursue (and there are many), you’re sure to receive the same quintessential Bain experience that Bainies around the world say make this one of the most rewarding and enriching firms to join.
SCORE 9.452
2024 Ranking
#4
Roland Berger EMEA
As the first consultancy native to Europe to expand internationally, Roland Berger’s identity is deeply entwined with the concept of global community. The firm operates on the idea that businesses must focus on the long play: sustainable economic, environmental, and social change on a global scale instead. Jobseekers who lead with heart and future-forward priorities should seek out a firm working actively to bring meaning to the consulting industry.
SCORE 8.987
2024 Ranking
#5
Axel Springer hy GmbH
Headquartered in Berlin, hy is a consulting firm with deep roots in the startup, entrepreneur, and founder community. It has the skills to support its portfolio of clients achieving their most ambitious growth targets.
SCORE 8.842
2024 Ranking
#20
Teneo Consulting
Teneo is a global communications and advisory firm known for working exclusively with the CEOs and senior executives of the world’s leading companies. The firm provides strategic counsel across its full range of key objectives and issues, and its clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.
SCORE 8.828
2024 Ranking
#17
Emerton
Emerton is a global midsize consulting firm with functional expertise in strategy, M&A support, regulation economics, marketing and sales, digital, innovation, data analytics, business transformation. The firm works with large corporations, family businesses, and technology entrepreneurs, bringing a combination of deep sector expertise to agile and pragmatic approaches. Sectors they focus on include energy, industry, mobility, consumer/retail, environmental services, technology, and healthcare.
SCORE 8.824
2024 Ranking
#3
Kearney EMEA
Kearney—one of the original global management consulting firms—has long specialized in operations and supports clients through large transformations. The firm works with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as governmental and nonprofit organizations. A solidly midsize firm with a strong international reputation, Kearney is poised to offer consultants the best of both worlds: the flexibility and opportunities for exposure of a boutique supported by the infrastructure of a much larger firm. The result is a great balance of collaboration and independence—the benefits of scale with the ability to individualize.
SCORE 8.809
2024 Ranking
#13
Arthur D. Little EMEA
While the consulting industry as we know it today began in Boston more than a century ago with Arthur D. Little, more than 50 percent of the firm’s employees now work across its numerous European offices. This, combined with several Middle Eastern offices serving the entire region, make Arthur D. Little a truly global experience for any jobseeker looking to see the world while they’re changing it.
SCORE 8.718
2024 Ranking
#11
OC&C Strategy Consultants EMEA
OC&C Strategy Consultants is an international consulting firm that advises management of major multinational corporations and leading national companies. OC&C also supports world-renowned private equity firms in areas including potential investment scoping, vendor and buyer due diligence, and post-acquisition strategy. The firm brings a deep knowledge of its focus sectors and underlying demand drivers to their work with clients.
SCORE 8.655
2024 Ranking
#9
Alvarez & Marsal EMEA
A&M provides global leadership, problem-solving, and value creation for companies across industries and around the world. The firm’s consultants work as advisers, interim leaders, and partners who tell clients what they need to know, not always what they want to hear. The firm is focused on practical, action-oriented advice for its clients, rather than theoretical.
SCORE 8.585
2024 Ranking
#14
Oliver Wyman EMEA
Oliver Wyman’s European presence spans almost two dozen countries in Europe and the Middle East. A people-focused firm that prides itself on connectedness and collaboration, Oliver Wyman strives to staff consultants on the projects that best suit their talents regardless of their home office. This makes international travel and opportunity the norm—not the exception.
SCORE 8.464
2024 Ranking
#16
Strategy&, Part of the PwC Network, EMEA
Strategy& is the strategy consulting business of PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the Big Four accounting firms. Combining strategy consulting expertise with the capabilities of the PwC network, Strategy& helps clients solve issues—from devising a corporate strategy to building capabilities by transforming functions and business units.
SCORE 8.401
2024 Ranking
#15
L.E.K. Consulting EMEA
L.E.K. Consulting is a global management consultancy that advises companies that are leaders in their industries—including major corporations, private equity firms, and emerging entrepreneurial businesses.Although the firm’s roots are firmly planted in British soil (it began with the establishment of its London office in 1983), L.E.K. Consulting’s reach spans almost every major market around the globe. That—coupled with deep industry expertise across a breadth of clients and capabilities—creates a wealth of “big firm” opportunities at a relatively midsize firm.
SCORE 8.304
2024 Ranking
#19
FTI Delta EMEA
FTI Delta is the strategy practice of FTI Consulting, with specialties in tech, media, and telecoms (TMT) and government/public sector work. Its multidisciplinary advisory services bring together strategic, technical, financial and operational advice combined with execution support to its clients globally.
SCORE 8.269
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Advancy EMEA
Advancy offers a range of consulting services, from corporate strategy to private equity. With its team of more than 250 consultants, the firm has an entrepreneurial spirit to go along with its services, offering its clients the jumpstart and guidance their businesses need.
SCORE 8.217
2024 Ranking
#1
CIL Management Consultants
With offices in the UK, France, Germany and the U.S., CIL offers growth-oriented consulting services across a variety of industries. Clients include companies in finance, healthcare, industrials, media, tech, education, and more.
SCORE 8.054
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
The Brattle Group EMEA
Specializing in economic and litigation consulting, The Brattle Group answers complex regulatory and financial questions for corporations, law firms, and governments around the world. Brattle serves numerous focus areas and industries, including energy, financial institutions, IT, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, sports, telecom, and media. In addition, the firm offers expert testimony and is known for the credibility of its experts, which include leading international academics and industry specialists.
SCORE 7.953
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Candesic
Candesic is a healthcare and life sciences consultancy based in London. The firm provides strategy, commercial due diligence and M&A/growth consulting services to clients. Candesic’s clients include healthcare corporates, global private equity funds and other private investors, as well as its portfolio companies and public sector organisations like the NHS.
SCORE 7.905
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Executive Insight AG
Executive Insight is a specialized healthcare consultancy that advises pharmaceutical and biotech companies as they prepare, launch, and commercialize their products—from strategy to implementation. The firm supports market access, marketing, and sales teams across a number of therapeutic areas in specialty and primary care in Europe, emerging markets, and beyond.
SCORE 7.889
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
Mansfield Advisors LLP
Mansfield Advisors is a leading strategy consulting firm specializing in healthcare, life sciences, and veterinary medicine. The firm works with public and private corporate clients and private equity firms to add value by advising them on growth, market entry, go-to-market, commercial due diligence, and digital transformation strategies.
SCORE 7.833
2024 Ranking
#Not Ranked
