Career Opportunities
Learn and rapidly grow your career in a firm that’s not only a great place to work but going places
The reason you’ll join the Pepper Foster team (apart from the fact that we’re awesome) is that you’ll be given autonomy, purpose, and the opportunity to build mastery in a host of different things very quickly.
Working at Pepper Foster is an opportunity to rapidly build and grow your career at a great company that’s worth sticking with for a decade rather than just long enough to get a resume click. A consulting firm where there’s less drama, politics, and back-biting because the leaders are good people who care and are motivated by making a difference rather than just making money.
Unlike a job in a big corporation or even a big consulting firm, you’ll be exposed to and learn from a wide variety of clients, projects, people, and situations. You’ll have access to and learn directly from senior leaders. You’ll be in the room when, and see why and how, big decisions are made. And you’ll get to present your ideas and solutions to senior leaders far earlier in your career than you would in other jobs.
“Great people, great culture, transparent leaders that truly care about people and are honest about the trade-offs and realities of business.”
-Employee NPS Survey
A once in a lifetime opportunity to have an outsized impact and help create a global industry leader
Working at Pepper Foster feels more immediate and real than other firms. You’ll work with an amazing group of people to help our clients figure stuff out, get stuff done, and drive tremendous value. You’ll also be actively engaged and involved in building and growing our company in line with our values, strategy, brand identity, and goals.
Our entrepreneurial spirit, growth, and focus on hiring great people, exceeding expectations, building the brand, and fostering happiness means you get to focus on doing the things that will help our clients and Pepper Foster grow. And, our core beliefs of autonomy, balance, candor, community, diversity, growth, and transparency mean that you get to contribute to, learn from, and benefit from the growth of our company.
You’ll have an outsized impact in growing Pepper Foster from the small regional consulting company it is today into one of the biggest and best consulting companies in the world. A global industry leader, renowned for the positive impact it has had on its clients, people, & communities.
A firm that embraces and encourages initiative
We embrace people who figure stuff out and get stuff done. People who are are scrappy, willing to dig in, do the work, and get their hands dirty. Professionals who are thoughtful, bold, and who learn from their mistakes and who have worked hard to get to where they are now and understand that what you put in determines what you get back.
When our people see a problem or opportunity, they don’t ask for permission, they take initiative, lean in, and create and build the solutions, practices, methods, offerings, accounts, and relationships that will make a difference for our clients, our people, and our community. And they get recognized for it.
"What makes your firm different is that your people think differently. And they listen. They deliver what I want, and then they tell me the eight other things I need to be thinking about. You stimulate growth in your clients."
-Fortune 1000 Client
Are you a good fit for Pepper Foster?
You are smart, inspiring, driven, passionate, humble, collaborative, and you have ideas.
You are a smart, inspiring, driven, passionate, humble, and collaborative consulting professional with a track record of success and making a difference for your clients in either strategic planning, change leadership, M&A, supply chain, or AI.
You deliver with confidence and humility and are thoughtful, generous, flexible, resilient, and disciplined. Perhaps most importantly, you are a secure, happy, good person. Clients and consultants alike trust you and look to you for support, guidance, and advice. Clients listen when you speak.
When working with clients, you don’t just ask what and when, you ask why. You look at business challenges and opportunities holistically considering not just the objectives and goals but also the team, culture, market, history, and politics. You always look down the road, round the corner, and help your clients see and prepare for what’s coming their way.
You listen and you’re humble. You work with your clients and their teams, not to them, not at them, and definitely not around them. You find the Goldilocks solutions and approaches that work in their environment; not too much, not too little, just right!
You bring ideas, concepts, methods, and approaches that help your clients grow and achieve more with less. You coach and challenge our clients, without being a jerk, to see things differently so they grow as individuals and as organizations.
“The Pepper Foster consultants I have worked with are all very knowledgeable, add tremendous value, and are always going above and beyond their roles to ensure that goals are met.”
-Client NPS Feedback
You are ambitious, known, liked, and sought out.
You are ambitious, want to make and grow your career in consulting, and you’re on track. You’ve already been promoted at least once but something’s missing. You are frustrated with unnecessary travel, big firm politics, and bureaucracy and want to work in a firm where you’re not just a number or a cog in the wheel, but a person who’s known, recognized, and rewarded for your contributions.
You’re willing to work harder than others to help grow and be part of something special and different. You know it’s not about how big your slice of the pie is, but how big the pie is and you want to help make the pie huge! You itch to have greater impact and influence, to be exposed to and present your ideas and solutions to senior decision-makers in large companies. You crave autonomy and the ability to chart your own path and control your own destiny.
You enjoy living and working in the city and community where we’re hiring you and you’ve likely been in that city since at least college. You are known, respected, and liked within the local business community and by the people and clients you have worked with. You are sought out by others as a mentor, advisor, supporter, and coach. You are proactive about building and maintaining a deep network of professional and personal relationships and look for and act on opportunities to help others.
You are probably an ENTJ on Myers Briggs, a DI on DISC, an Orange Green on Spiral Dynamics, a 3,2 on Enneagram, and your Strengths Finder strengths likely include Achiever, Activator, Individualization, Responsibility & Strategic.
"I've never worked with a more transparent and caring company."
-Employee NPS Survey
“The firm philosophy is not just words on a wall or a website; it is actively lived and reflected through each and every associate.”
– PFC Employee
“An amazing firm with great leadership, values, and people who all really care about each other and their clients, how they show up, and making this world a better place for everyone.”
– PFC Employee
“At PFC I truly feel cared and valued as not only an employee but a community member.”
– PFC Employee
“PFC is very transparent about what is happening so no one feels caught off guard. Employees are allowed to share ideas openly and honestly without fear of dismissal, most of the time ideas for improvement are taken seriously and acted upon. Leadership makes itself available to everyone, no matter what level or how tenured you are and everyone is given a voice.”
– PFC Employee