Strategy& Consultant – Telecoms, Media and Technology – SM – EST (On-site)

As a Senior Manager in Strategy&, you will play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of the world’s leading technologies, media & telecoms companies.

As a Senior Manager in Strategy&, you will play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of the world’s leading technologies, media & telecoms 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 also have the opportunity to work closely with the Delivering Deal Value (DDV) team, assisting both Corporate and Private Equity clients in a wide range of business critical operational and transformational challenges driven by Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity. 

You will spend the vast majority of your time leading the delivery of client projects. You will lead teams of juniors and clients to solve strategic problems, develop strong client relationships and progress the personal development of others. You will engage in hypothesis-led problem-solving, development of project approaches, shaping of qualitative and quantitative analysis, client engagement and leadership of the team.

Outside of engagements, you will build networks and engage with our sector consulting team including our market-leading Experience Centre and Customer capability groups; 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 Senior Managers to develop exceptional leadership analytical thinking, specialist technical and sector knowledge and relationship skills.

Key responsibilities as a Senior Manager

• Managing client projects, including structuring the approach, team and timeline and driving each assignment to a successful conclusion, reporting to the Partner and Director team.

• Developing the hypotheses and insights to unlock challenging client problems

• Directing analysis, assessing the depth required on each assignment, translating the analysis into useful findings and quality assuring the results in conjunction with project leadership.

• Planning and managing the delivery of quality work.

• Defining the source and level of data gathering required to solve complex problems in a short timeframe.

• Developing clear, persuasive and concise documents for Executive audiences.

• Building productive and lasting client relationships at all levels.

• 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.

• Upholding the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Requirements

• Experience working in retail and consumer products sectors, ideally on one or more of the following: 

  • Corporate or business unit strategy 

  • Growth strategy (RGM/NRM, TPM, Pricing, GTM) 

  • Cost reduction strategy 

  • Integration and separation

• Proven track record of leading 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 situation

Diversity

Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

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