Manager - Strategy Consulting - Strategy&

At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We are a multi-disciplinary professional services Firm with a leading global strategy consulting practice, Strategy&, which was formed following our acquisition of Booz & Co in 2014.

Strategy& is a global team of practical strategists, committed to helping our clients solve their toughest problems by leveraging a world-class, international network to deliver solutions for a wide range of clients. Our primary role is to develop the core strategies for our clients and help them to realise practical results.

Using a capabilities-driven focus, Strategy& is re-inventing strategy consulting as the world’s leading Strategy-through-Execution firm. We offer clients end-to-end services to build approaches for key development and commercialisation functions all under one roof, with a proven track record of execution and delivery, and unrivalled global scale and experience.

About the role

As a Manager in Strategy&, you will play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of leading retail and consumer goods companies. You will have the opportunity to drive transformational business change, working closely with Executive clients, Directors and Partners and leveraging PwC’s global network.

You will spend the vast majority of your time delivering client projects. In these, you will lead 1-2 workstreams, either independently or managing junior colleagues and clients. You will engage in hypothesis-led problem-solving, development of project approaches, execution of qualitative and quantitative analysis, client engagement and collaboration with the team.

Outside of engagements, you will build networks and engage with our sector consulting team, generate thought leadership, new propositions and initiatives based on your personal interests and insights; and drive your own personal development and that of your colleagues to deliver ever more value to clients.

Strategy& offers in-depth training across all consulting levels and will support your development throughout your career. Using a combination of formal training programs, on-the-job feedback and guidance from your allocated career coach, we support our Managers to develop exceptional leadership analytical thinking, specialist technical and sector knowledge and relationship skills.

Key responsibilities

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  Shaping, planning and executing complex strategic workstreams as part of client projects, with support from Senior Managers, Directors or Partners

• Developing the hypotheses and insights to unlock challenging client problems

• Undertaking analysis, translating the analysis into useful findings and quality assuring the results in conjunction with project leadership

• Developing clear, persuasive and concise documents for Executive audiences

• Building productive and lasting client relationships at all levels

• Leading data gathering required to solve complex problems in a short timeframe

• Managing the development of junior team members on projects and identifying opportunities for them to grow and build their skills

• Building relationships within the PwC Network and proactively contributing to internal, firm-building activities

• Dealing effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

Candidate requirements

• Either, ~4 years strategy consulting experience with significant experience working with national and/or international clients; Or, 6-8 years experience in the Commercial/Business/Corporate Strategy teams of major companies

• Deep focus on one or more of: corporate or business unit strategy, growth strategy, operations transformation, capabilities development, strategic cost reduction and digital disruption

• Ability to lead self and others, in particular, experience in managing teams and coaching others to high performance

• Experience in contributing to functionally, geographically and culturally diverse teams

• Ability to apply top-down strategic thinking to complex, ambiguous and unfamiliar problems

• Demonstrated ability to work with quantitative data and structuring quantitative analysis

• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience in communicating with senior Executives in oral and written form

• Ability to quickly and confidently develop relationships, including in challenging situations

• Excellent academic results at university - educated to graduate level or equivalent

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