Strategy& Consultant – Energy, Utilities, Resources - Manager London, England
Job description
A career in PwC Strategy&’s EUR team will provide you with the opportunity to participate in an exciting and rapidly changing energy landscape, develop industry-leading sector, technical and management skills, rapidly shape and advance your career and be part of a diverse, energetic, friendly community.
About the role
As a Manager in Strategy&, you will play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of leading energy 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 Deals and Delivering Deal Value (DDV) team, assisting both Corporate and Private Equity clients in commercial due diligence and transformational challenges driven by Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity.
You will spend the vast majority of your time delivering client projects. In these which 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 as a Manager
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.
Requirements
Extensive Energy sector (Power including new energies, Utilities, Oil & Gas, energy regulators) experience in Strategy Consulting, Business/Corporate Strategy or Operations teams
Deep focus on one or more of Corporate or business unit strategy, Growth Strategy, Operating 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
Educated to graduate level in Economics, Mathematics, Business, Science or Engineering or equivalent
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