Consultative Offerings - Summer Scholar - Functional and Operational Strategy

Do you want to help executives navigate disruption at a scale and speed they've never faced before? Are you the kind of person who sees a hard problem and leans in instead of looking away? You're exactly who we're looking for.

AI is reshaping industries overnight.

Global markets are shifting faster than playbooks can keep up.

Entire business models are being rewritten in real time.

For the leaders steering through it, this isn't a moment for more of the same...

it's a moment that demands fresh thinking, bold moves, and partners who can see around corners.

There has never been a more exciting time to be a strategic advisor - join us for this moment!

Is this You?

You're fascinated by the complexity inside organizations: how they're built to perform, how they adapt under pressure, and what it really takes to transform them.

You want to master that terrain, and you're ambitious enough to want to be exceptional at it.

You don't need to have it all figured out yet.

But you care about creating value for organizations, not just how a plan might read on a page.

You're sharp enough to find the signal in messy data.

You're genuinely excited about AI, not as a buzzword, but as something you want to learn to use in real, high-stakes situations.

And, you want your work to matter starting now, not eventually.

If you want to become the kind of advisor executives trust with their hardest decisions, it starts at Deloitte as a Functional & Operational Strategy Summer Scholar.

What You'll Do

Your work will feed the decisions executives can't afford to get wrong.

Here's what that looks like day to day: you'll get a problem that isn't fully defined, and part of your job is figuring out the right question before you can even get to an answer.

You'll dig into data, build the analysis, and find the insight that changes how a client sees their situation; you'll be exposed to the latest AI tools and accelerators.

You will learn to communicate your recommendation clearly to Executives who've been running companies longer than you've been in the workforce.

The questions you'll wrestle with live at the heart of how organizations function: how should we restructure our workforce as AI reshapes what work means, and how do we bring people through that change without losing momentum? How does the CFO build a finance function that's a true strategic partner, not a reporting machine? What operating model gives a business the agility to execute its strategy at scale? How do we modernize a supply chain that's one disruption away from breaking? What does a risk and governance framework look like when it's designed to enable speed, not just prevent failure? What changes are people and businesses demanding in their end-to-end journeys as customers?

These are the questions our clients bring to us because they trust that no one is more equipped to answer them.

The work spans the full arc of strategic advising: diagnosing where a business function stands, charting where it ne...