2025 Vault Rankings
At a Glance
“People, exposure to clients, and the ability to gain lots of responsibilities early on.”
“Smart people, good mentorship, interesting projects, and fast career progression.”
“Firm culture, interesting work, great colleagues, great mentorship, and great training.”
“Positive firm outlook and strong growth, interesting work, great colleagues and culture, and good perks.”
“Rapidly growth means growing pains like centralizing firm resources.”
“Hours can be long. The firm has a limited brand in the market, so you need to be up for the fight as a challenger.”
“Long hours (vs. a corporate job, not other strategy consultants).”
“A highly prescriptive view of what 'good' looks like (in terms of work product and delivery).”
About OC&C Strategy Consultants
Focusing on strategic analysis, OC&C Strategy Consultants breaks the concept of strategy consulting down into five organizational areas: group strategy, business unit/divisional strategy, product/market/channel strategy, transaction support, and strategy realization.
The firm focuses on answering strategic questions facing clients from first principles, based on market, customer, and competitor realities, rather than operational status quo and constraints. That's a strategy, the firm says, that ensures clients benefit from truly custom-built solutions, rather than off-the-shelf methodologies.
Although OC&C doesn't publicize its client list, it does claim to work not only with major corporations, but also with mid-sized companies that need strategic help in rapidly changing industries. Its practice areas include advanced analytics and AI, retail, leisure and hospitality, B2B services, consumer goods, technology, media and telecommunications, private equity, and M&A.
While founded in Europe more than three decades ago it now has offices in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Netherlands—OC&C has expanded its footprint in core strategic markets and now serves clients on a global scale. In addition to maintaining its presence in these markets, OC&C has also leveraged its European market position in its core sectors to the US, Asia, and beyond—trading from offices in New York, Boston, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Melbourne. Most recently, OC&C has expanded into Germany.
One point of pride for OC&C is its expertise in consumer goods. Within this area, it offers insights and provides solutions in three key sections: growth stakes, profitability issues and category management. Retail has also long been an OC&C focus. The firm claims to have been one of the original advocates for the importance of emerging value offers, private label goods, and battling category killers.
The firm has made a significant effort to advise technology companies and media outlets since its founding. It offers strategy reviews, transformational performance improvement, profitable use of the digital arena, and go-to-market strategies for new services and products. OC&C also supports world-renowned private equity firms in such areas as potential investment scoping, vendor and buyer due diligence, and post-acquisition strategy.
OC&C has a comprehensive pro bono and volunteering program through its partnership with the Robin Hood Foundation, New York's largest poverty-fighting organization. Through this partnership, OC&C provides multiple pro bono consulting engagements per year, helping advise Robin Hood's Partner organizations on strategic and operational questions. In addition to pro bono projects, the firm supports the broader community in New York and Boston through fundraising, volunteering opportunities, and other engagements. That commitment to doing things the right way was fully realized in 2023, when the firm became a Certified B CorpTM—a reflection not just of its pro bono work, but the extent to which ESG principles and practices are embedded within all aspects of the business. According to a press release issued by the firm at the time, that work accounts for some 1.5% of overall revenue.
COVID-19 Update
The disruption wrought by Covid-19 has only reinforced the strength of our model, with clients more in need than ever of fundamental strategic thinking to help them navigate the dramatic changes and new opportunities this disruption has created.
250 West 55th Street
15th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Employer Type: Private
Worldwide Managing Partner: Will Hayllar
New York, NY
Boston, MA
Global
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- Business Unit/Divisional Strategy
- Group Strategy
- Organization & Change
- Product/Market/Channel Strategy
- Strategy Realization
- Transaction Support