Internship – Strategy Consultant – Energy

About the company

The climate crisis is forcing all economic actors to undergo a profound transformation of their business model to align with national and international decarbonization and biodiversity impact objectives. Our mission is to support companies in this heavy responsibility.

AFRY Management Consulting is a global player in strategy consulting within the energy, bioindustry, and infrastructure sectors. Our team of 700 consultants is present on 5 continents through 20 offices. We combine the rigor and methods of strategy consulting with the technical expertise of the 19,000 engineers of the AFRY group, to provide personalized responses capable of meeting the challenges posed by the energy transition.

We support our clients (investors, energy companies, regulators, and industrial players) in their decision-making on key themes such as electric mobility, hydrogen, bioenergies, renewable energies, and decarbonization.

At AFRY, we are engineers of change in everything we do. Change happens when courageous ideas meet. When we collaborate, innovate in technology, and adopt challenging viewpoints. That is how we build the future. We are actively looking for qualified candidates to join our inclusive and diverse teams worldwide. Join us to accelerate the transition toward a sustainable future.

Your tasks

You will join the AFRY Paris Strategy team, specialized in the energy sector. We work primarily around three major themes:​

• Renewable energies and storage: solar, wind, batteries, hybridization…​
• Decarbonized mobility: electric vehicles, e-trucks, maritime mobility…​
• Green gas and heat: biomethane, hydrogen, bioenergies, heat, and industrial decarbonization.​

From the start of the internship, we fully integrate you into our strategy, transaction, and due diligence missions. ​ Depending on the projects, you will work directly with consultants, managers, partners, and AFRY technical experts, and will be quickly exposed to exchanges with our clients.​

Concretely, your missions may notably consist of:​

• performing qualitative and quantitative analyses: market sizing, benchmark, competitive analysis, regulatory review, or customer data analysis;​
• contributing to due diligences of assets or companies in the energy sector;​
• analyzing operational, commercial, or financial data and challenging business plan hypotheses;​
• consulting AFRY technical experts in order to integrate the technological and operational dimensions of the studied subjects into the analyses;​
• synthesizing your analyses and participating in the preparation of deliverables and client presentations;​
• actively participating in team meetings and client meetings;​
• contributing to office life through recruitment, event organization, development of internal topics, or the improvement of our tools and working methods.​

Requirements

• Student at a major engineering or business school or a leading master's program
• Particular affinity for the energy sector, preferably with a first experience in this field at an energy player or within a consulting firm
• Excellent analytical skills that allow you to grasp the complexity of problems and translate facts into quantitative models
• Developed synthesis skills to communicate the results of your reflections in a concise and orderly manner
• Excellent communication skills, professional mastery of English is indispensable
• Good interpersonal skills which will allow you to establish your credibility with our employees and our clients

We give priority to applications for end-of-studies internships or second-half gap year internships.

How to apply

The recruitment process consists of 4 interviews, all involving a "fit" part followed by a case study related to energy.

Other

You will join an office of approximately 25 consultants, where juniors work on a daily basis directly with managers and regularly with partners.​

You can find more information about the firm and all our job offers on our Welcome to the Jungle page