Senior Associate - January 2026

Coppett Hill is growing and we’re looking for an exceptional new colleague to join our team in London as a Senior Associate. This is a great opportunity for candidates looking to fast track their career, working closely with our experienced senior team in a fast growth environment and having meaningful impact with our PE-backed clients. 

About Coppett Hill 

Coppett Hill is a technology-enabled consultancy, enabling private equity backed businesses to transform how they find, win, keep and grow their customers – their ‘Go To Market’.  

We combine our senior team’s experience as both operators and investors with proprietary technology to find insights and inspire change for our clients. We are privileged to work with some of the most exciting and impressive companies across a range of B2B and B2C industry sectors.  

Our innovative approach and growing demand for value creation work in the private equity market is leading to significant demand for our services and we are growing fast. Founded two and a half years ago, and now a team of 23 people, we have ambitious plans for our growth and this role presents an exciting opportunity to fast track your career and contribute to building a business while working closely with clients to transform their businesses.  

Our leadership team combine backgrounds as strategy consultants (ex PWC / Strategy& and BCG), private equity investors (ex Livingbridge) and operators (ex CMO at CarTrawler, ex CEO Scale Space, ex MD Spotlight). We believe we are building a truly differentiated consultancy - one that delivers significant impact for clients, leverages best in class proprietary tech, and supports our team to do their best work. Core to our approach is enabling high potential to become high performance, both for our clients and our team. 

In a short space of time we have established a strong market reputation, evidenced by our recent shortlisting for ‘Value Creation Adviser of the Year’ at the Real Deals Private Equity Awards 2026. 

The role 

As a Senior Associate you will be a key member of the team, working alongside a Project Leader to deliver client projects. We are a small team, so you will have high impact and exposure from the start. 

Key responsibilities include:  

• As part of a project team, you will own specific workstreams within a project – identifying issues, forming hypotheses and supporting client transformation.  
• Building an understanding of each client’s requirements, their business, wider market context, and value creation plan to support project delivery 
• Undertaking research to build an evidence base for recommendations, for example designing and conducting customer or expert interviews, or conducting mystery shopping   
• Framing and conducting analysis of both company-provided and market data to identify trends, opportunities and challenges – using both established Coppett Hill technology tools as well as designing bespoke analytical approaches.  
• We work in SQL, Tableau, Excel and Python – some experience with SQL and/or Python is a pre-requisite, we will also provide training as part of our Coppett Hill Academy 
• Distilling recommendations and presenting findings to clients, and supporting clients to put recommendations into action 
• Supporting and collaborating with junior team members in delivering their work 
• Supporting the development of Coppett Hill’s suite of proprietary technology tools 
• Supporting business development activities by preparing for and joining meetings with potential clients 

Requirements

This role would ideally suit those with 2-4 years of experience who combine commercial problem solving with advanced analytical skills. You need to have strategy consulting experience and ideally some exposure to private equity clients or operational roles.  

Perhaps you are someone who enjoys the variety and pace of consulting but are looking for more responsibility and the opportunity for greater client engagement? Or you’ve worked in a big consultancy with a focus on private equity deals, but want to have more impact with clients and better work-life balance? We are open minded to other backgrounds as long as you have the analytical skills to solve business problems end to end. 

We are looking for people who have demonstrable skills and experience in the following areas: 

• Problem solving and insight, with the ability to bring structured thinking to complicated situations and translate data into practical recommendations 
• Analytical skills with experience working in one or both of SQL and Python, and ideally skilled at using at least one visualisation tool (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI)  
• A commercial mindset and an interest in business and Go To Market strategy 
• Clear written and verbal communication and strong relationship building 
• Committed team player – you want to have real impact with clients working at pace as part of a project team 
• Self-directed and proactive – you will have considerable responsibility from Day 1 

 Must-Have requirements 

• 2+ years relevant work experience 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills – combining commercial acumen with a data-driven mindset 
• Work experience with SQL and/or Python 
• Work experience with a data visualisation tool, preferably Tableau 

 The sort of people we’re looking for 

• Are capable and data-driven with a flexible thinking style 
• Want to add value for clients, more than creating a ‘pretty slide deck’ 
• Suggest solutions after identifying problems 
• Are kind and contribute to creating a great working environment  
• Are eager to learn and willing to be wrong 
• Embrace a “startup culture” and want to be part of building the business 

Benefits

• Competitive base salary of £58-64k, dependent on experience
• Discretionary bonus based on company and individual performance
• Opportunity for rapid progression based on performance 
• A focus on training and development with a comprehensive training programme including externally run courses 
• 25 days holiday (including ability to ‘roll over’ 5 days per year) 
• Office in the heart of the City of London, with free coffee / tea / snacks / fresh fruit
• Flexible working by arrangement 
• Monthly social events (including at least one ‘offsite’ per year and our annual ski trip) 

We think our culture of enabling high potential to become high performance really sets us apart. Core to that is mentorship, ownership, high trust and mutual accountability. We prioritise a balanced lifestyle and long-term investment in the development of our team.  

You will work alongside experienced project leaders and benefit from day-to-day collaboration with our impressive clients and their private equity investors, creating opportunities for both accelerated learning and significant impact.  We have invested significantly in our Coppett Hill Academy to support your development and accelerate on the job learning. By joining Coppett Hill in this period of rapid growth you will not only work on exciting projects but also be part of building and shaping the business, its strategy and culture, with the potential to build a highly rewarding career.