ZS manager vs LEK consultant.

I got promoted to manager at ZS. Previously, I had applied to LEK in case I didn’t get the promotion and hold an offer to join as a consultant. I am inclined to stay but wanted to double check if anyone would challenge this. Thank you!

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ZS perspective here.

Recruiters and hiring managers will care about relevance of your projects, not your firm name.

Is you goal to stay in life-sciences? Are you doing work in ZS that you see yourself doing when you exit? If so staying with ZS makes more sense, LEK will not give you significantly better exits unless you wanna go to Pharma BD department.

Our WLB is still better according to a few people I know in LEK. You will also likely get your TC decreased at least in the short-term as it should be around 200k-210k as newly promoted M?

If you wanna do PE/BD, LEK is definitely a much better firm.

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LEK perspective here from life and comp. I only know 2 people at ZS but based on that, I presume you will work more here unfortunately. That being said, our consultant role does act as a project leader in a sense given our managers are 50% allocated to 2 projects. For consultant comp, you could be up to 200K with profit share (I forgot exactly numbers but could be higher) and manager comp is relatively high for industry (average is around 325K I believe)

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In a very similar situation at Deloitte and I chose LEK. Happy to chat if you would like OP

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Starting in a few weeks

Thank you both!

Let us know what did you choose :)

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