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As a Senior Associate in Strategy&, you will play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of global clients within financial services, pharmaceutical & life sciences, private and public sectors. You will have the opportunity to drive transformational business change, working closely with Executive clients, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners and leveraging PwC’s global network.

Strategy& is a global team of practical strategists, committed to helping our clients solve their toughest problems.

Strategy& teams leverage 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 unrivaled global scale and experience.

About the role

As a Senior Associate in Strategy&, you will play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of global clients within financial services, pharmaceutical & life sciences, private and public sectors. You will have the opportunity to drive transformational business change, working closely with Executive clients, Senior Managers, 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 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 delivering client projects. In these, you will drive a workstream, either independently or working with 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 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 Associates to develop exceptional leadership, analytical thinking, specialist technical and sector knowledge and relationship skills.

Key responsibilities as a Senior Associate

• Working with Managers, Senior Managers, Directors or Partners to structure, storyboard, plan and execute complex strategic workstreams as part of client projects.
• Developing the hypotheses and insights to unlock challenging client problems.
• Leading the data gathering required to solve complex problems in a short timeframe.
• 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.
• Presenting content convincingly and clearly and fielding client questions naturally.
• 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.
• Supporting senior management with project proposals and developing new business opportunities.
• Building relationships within the PwC Network and proactively contributing to internal, firm-building activities, such as recruitment.
• Dealing effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Upholding the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years experience working with clients on one or more of the following:
  • Corporate or business unit strategy
  • Growth strategy
  • Cost reduction strategy

• Experience 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
• Eagerness to learn and develop new skills
• Good organization and planning
• Collaborative nature and team-player mentality
• Self-motivation and self-starter approach

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