Digital & Technology Services Knowledge Management intern

Description

Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) is a global consulting firm with more than 10,000 staff and over 80 offices worldwide. We offer a broad range of professional services including Financial & Turnaround Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Financial Institutions Advisory, Valuations and Disputes and Investigation Services.  

Through our DTS practice, A&M helps clients ideate, incubate, and industrialize new business models including agile target operating models, customer and product innovations, or intelligent and automated back offices leveraging a mix of capabilities ranging from digital product management, customer experience (CX) service design, data and analytics, and self-service platforms.

Alongside our broader European DTS team colleagues, we define and deliver innovative strategic programs – aligning each digital initiative to a specific company goal- getting the client from where the company is today to where it wants to be in the future.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join a ‘hands on’ team. As the Knowledge Management Intern, you will help the team get organised by collecting, curating, and documenting our internal collateral to support business development and client work. Through collaboration with DTS leadership, consultants, and our Global Knowledge Management team, you will play a key role in the internal operations of the practice and setting up systems to ensure the DTS team is able to capture, find, and reuse materials created during our client activities.   

A&M Culture

A&M is a growing business, and our people have extensive client exposure and the opportunity to be involved in business development activities.
Our culture is a highly dynamic and responsive one that has evolved out of excelling in complex and urgent situations. We are unrestricted by any conflict with Audit services and the issues caused that are typical in many of our competitors.

The successful candidate will:

• Join a growing team with strong leadership, bright, energetic people with a truly entrepreneurial spirit.

• Gain hands-on experience in cataloguing business-critical materials for a dynamic, fast-paced organisation  

• Develop an understanding of applied knowledge management practice in a global management consulting firm

• The Main Tasks Will Include:

• Engage with teams to understand existing knowledge materials and improve storage and accessibility.

• Work with the internal Global Knowledge Management team to apply best practices in content capture, organization, and retrieval

• Collect and organize knowledge assets while ensuring confidentiality.

• Develop clear guidelines for knowledge-sharing within the team.

• Create communication and training materials to support a strong knowledge-sharing culture.

• Assist our Digital & Technology Team in London as they work with corporate, private equity, and financial institution clients.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in related area or similar work/technical experience in Business Studies, Business Administration, Management, Technology, Information Science, or Library Science 

• Demonstrated interest in content management, library science, archiving, or knowledge management. Master’s degree in Library Science, Information Science, Knowledge Management, or Archival Studies is preferred but not required

• Excellent attention to detail

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to prioritise and work independently – especially in highly pressured situations

• Some skills in Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and/or SharePoint would be advantageous 

• Fluent business level English. Additional European language skills including French, German, Spanish or Italian are highly desirable

• Right to work in the UK

This role will commence on the 2nd of June for a three-month period.

Inclusive Diversity

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.

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