Summer Analyst, Data Science & Strategy
Birch Hill is recruiting Summer Analysts to join Canada’s premier Private Equity Data Science & Strategy team. Our team is growing quickly, and we are looking for motivated, intelligent candidates who love data, strategy, and solving complex problems. We are highly analytical with diverse backgrounds in consulting, engineering, and pure and applied math and science. We intensely focus on understanding and improving the inner workings of companies and processes to unlock value. For us, data is the means to an end, not simply the end.
The summer internship offers students the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects. The Summer Analyst position is offered for students in the summer before their final year of undergraduate study.
About Birch Hill
Birch Hill is a Canadian mid-market private equity firm with a long history of driving growth in our portfolio companies and delivering returns to our investors. Based in Toronto, we currently have over $5 billion in capital under management. Since 1994, we have made over 72 investments, including MLSE, CCM Hockey, SleepCountry, Softchoice, and Constellation Software. Today, our 15 partner companies collectively represent one of Canada’s largest corporate entities with over $8 billion in total revenue and more than 40,000 employees.
About the Data Science & Strategy Team
The Data Science & Strategy Team focuses on creating value for our companies by enabling data-driven decision making through timely data and advanced analytics. With appropriate information, systems and processes, our companies optimize their competitive positioning and profitably grow. We lead a wide array of project archetypes, all grounded by a foundational excellence in analytics and measuring success. Informed by Birch Hill’s investment premise, our projects support key components of the company’s competitive strategy.
We partner with portfolio companies as not only technical leaders, but also strategic leaders. We enthusiastically subscribe to the “Where to Play, How to Win, Measure Success” strategic framework. Past projects include, but are not limited to, market mapping, customer lifetime value, Five Forces analysis, sales enablement, digital marketing, constructing supply and demand curves, work- or process-flow studies, and logistics optimization. Our data infrastructure playbook uses best-in-class methods in data engineering, data modelling, and dashboard design to provide our portfolio companies and investment teams with timely and accurate information for measuring success.
We also support Birch Hill’s sourcing and due diligence efforts regarding potential investments including assessing and screening candidates using alternative data sources, optimizing information flow around our deal pipeline, and completing market mapping and customer analytics to inform the investment thesis.
The Summer Analyst Role
Successful candidates will utilize a variety of tools and skill sets to solve structured and unstructured problems and to support the strategic objectives of Birch Hill’s portfolio companies. Summer Analysts will work with the team to identify areas of improvement within processes and systems and use analytical skills to produce high-quality analysis. They will also support the implementation of their analysis, including working directly with investment professionals and senior executives.
Qualifications
- Enrolled in an undergraduate program in business, sciences, math, statistics and/or engineering
- Ability to analytically approach and solve broad and challenging problems
- Curiosity, a desire to be challenged, and the aspiration to continually learn
- Strong communications skills to articulate complex analyses clearly to a variety of stakeholders
- Proficiency in data manipulation languages like SQL or Python
- Relevant work experience in a data analytics, consulting, or finance role would be an asset
- Previous experience with databases, business intelligence tools, ETL pipelines, and/or machine learning systems would be an asset.
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.