Strategy (UK & Ireland) Summer Internship – July 2026 intake

Work on a wide range of engagements, providing front-end strategy on investments and strategic growth opportunities.Programme OverviewOur team advise clients on a vast range of issues, such as core value proposition, competitive positioning, and growth strategy. Our people enjoy unparalleled contact with influential and highly experienced professionals within the firm, as well as with senior management at clients’ organisations across a range of sectors. We provide a mixture of commercial due diligence and strategy projects with private equity (PE) and corporate clients. These projects help our clients answer their most complex strategic questions by providing in-depth market, competitor, customer, and investment insights.The Summer Internship programme will run for 8 weeks and offers the exciting opportunity to experience what it’s like to work as a strategy consultant and explore the unique opportunities that EY-Parthenon Strategy offers. By the end of the internship, you will have a real understanding if this is the right choice for you, with many internships resulting in a full-time offer.What You Will Be DoingWorking on one or two cases during the programme, and be staffed into the full Associate role to assist with tasks.Identifying data sources, gathering, analysing, and interpreting data, and presenting your findings to team members or clients.Interviewing market experts, customers, and competitors of the client and synthesizing findings to make strategic recommendations.Building market and business models and using those to generate forecasts to support with analysis.Ideation sessions with the case team (3-7 members) to tackle complex challenges.Discover more about this programme.