Junior Innovation Consultant - Ignition (start: September 2025)
Hybrid
Zaventem, Belgium
Full Time
14-04-2025
Job Specifications
Function
Advisory - Junior Advisor
Roles & Responsibilities
About KPMG Ignition
At KPMG Ignition Belgium, we bring strategy, creativity, and technology together to co-design impactful solutions with our clients. We focus on helping organizations navigate uncertainty, tackle complex challenges, and embrace future opportunities in an ever-changing environment. Through a multidisciplinary and innovative approach, we co-create strategies, enable transformation, and accelerate innovation—delivering lasting value for our clients.
As a Junior Innovation Consultant, You Will
Collaborate with a diverse team of experts to guide organizations in their innovation journeys.
Work closely with internal and external clients from different sectors to understand their business challenges and co-design future-proof innovative strategies and solutions.
Design and facilitate ideation and design thinking workshops to generate new insights and explore innovative ideas.
Support the development of digital prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) that bring strategies to life.
Help organizations assess and implement emerging technologies, leveraging trends such as AI, data analytics, automation, and sustainability-driven innovation.
Contribute to projects that span innovation strategy, business model design, customer experience enhancement, and the deployment of digital solutions.
Play an active role in business development by supporting the preparation of proposals and client presentations.
What To Expect
You’ll join a collaborative, forward-thinking, and dynamic team located at our KPMG Ignition Center in Zaventem.
You’ll engage in diverse and challenging projects that encourage creativity and strategic thinking.
You’ll have the opportunity to work with clients in various sectors such as Financial Services, Energy, the Public Sector, and more.
Frequent client interaction, including workshops and on-site visits (mostly in Belgium, with occasional international opportunities).
You’ll be empowered to make an impact while growing your skills in innovation, design thinking, and digital transformation.
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Location
Zaventem HQ
Skills & Qualifications
We’re looking for people who:
Will soon hold a master’s degree in business administration, (Applied) Economics, Engineering, Innovation Management, Design, Business Informatics, or equivalent fields (e.g., Political Sciences, Psychology, Social Sciences, or Law).
Have a passion for innovation, emerging technologies, and human-centered design.
Are curious about trends like AI, sustainability, blockchain, data analytics, and how these impact businesses and society.
Are creative thinkers with a proactive, constructive and solution-oriented attitude.
Are eager to co-create with colleagues, clients, and partners, building innovative solutions that deliver real value.
Possess an analytical mindset and are comfortable working in complex and dynamic environments.
Communicate fluently in Dutch (bilingual/mother tongue), French and English.
Thrive in a project-based and collaborative work environment.
Foster collaboration, diversity, and an inclusive team spirit.
Communicate transparently and with impact.
Can demonstrate integrity by being reliable and dependable.
Can work independently and in a team.
Are flexible and can adapt their working style (remote work, one-site…) according to circumstances and client needs.
We offer
At KPMG, we commit ourselves to encouraging true team spirit and creating an international and dynamic working environment in which each can pursue the knowledge needed to boost their career. Additionally, we highly invest in our people’s development of soft skills and technical know-how.
We Also Offer
An inclusive workspace that encourages diversity and pursues mutual respect and tolerance for each other’s beliefs and background.
A competitive and attractive compensation package with extra-legal advantages (mobility budget or lease car, laptop, iPhone/iPad device, insurance package…)
A flexible, hybrid working schedule where employees can work on various locations: at home, at the office, on the go or at a client’s site.
A wide range of teambuilding activities and social events (e.g. afterwork drinks, network evenings, annual national receptions, etc.) that enable new joiners to meet colleagues within the wider KPMG community and have some fun along the way.
A comprehensive well-being program that includes hospitalization insurance and several initiatives that focus on mental health.
Ready to ignite your career in innovation?
Apply now and join KPMG Ignition Belgium in shaping the future, together.
About the Company
Uncovering a world of opportunity together. Whether your objective is to speed up digitalization, manage risk, drive growth, optimize cost, or increase your competitive advantage to secure your organization’s future, we can help you uncover fresh insights and develop new opportunities for your organization. Learn how to fully leverage data so that you can put it to work for your organization and discover how we can help your business stay relevant through Digital & Technology, Innovation, and Compliance. Know more
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