Kearney Reviews

Principle and Partners are DREADFUL. Many long in the tooth, hangers on who are in reality super managers not principles or partners as you would see at other firms. They are all basically procurement specialists (you'll be handed a copy of The CPO at some stage for sure). Many lack personality and there is very little in the way of leadership qualities including the integrity to make tough calls or take the time to develop people. Diversity means just getting more women into the firm not actually getting talent from other spheres in. I came from a non traditional background and one of the principles asked for me to be removed from a project because apparently I had nothing to offer. By this she meant I hadn't worked in...you guessed it...procurement before.

- Too political; Older partners rule the roast with an abysmally low partner to consultant ratio and you really have to suck up to be appreciated(and even then takes 15 years to make Partner out of B school, as opposed to 7-8 at Mck/BCG/Bain/Oliver Wyman etc.) - Don't even hire from the best schools like Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton etc. Quality of people is not great - thus network is low - Pathetic leadership : Most Partners literally boast on having connections with the CPO and hardly have networks with the CFO's, CEO's etc. - Every practice tends to end up doing some sort of procurement related work. If you wan't to do strategy DO NOT APPLY. It's mostly implementation based procurement (even though they aspire to become the most admired firm, with no realistic plan) - No real alumni network ; Exit options are limited ; No help from the firm for alumni connections