Corporate Strategy and M&A – Consumer Markets Senior Manager

About the role

What is Strategy& Strategy& is PwCs global strategy consulting business as well as the only at-scale strategy business inside a professional services network. Strategy&s unique combination of strategic expertise and scale provides outstanding opportunities for rapid professional growth. Youll be part of a global team solving challenging strategic problems for our clients through innovative ideas and thought return our culture gives you the opportunity to challenge conventional thinking and a tailored mentorship to help you develop and progress.

What your days will look like:

As a Strategy Consultant you will work with leading corporate clients and investors helping and supporting them tackle their toughest decisions. Your engagements will include a mix of corporate strategy (growth strategy market entry pricing commercial excellence product strategy) and transaction-related work (commercial due diligence and pre- and post-deal value creation).

Your work will be varied fast paced - no engagement is ever the our Strategy team youll be joining a market-leading and fast-growing team that works with leading businesses private equity and venture capital investors supporting them across the Deal cycle from pre-deal to post-deal value creation.

Our Consumer Markets team covers a wealth of sub-sectors including:

• Retail clothing & footwear accessories home & garden grocery specialty value retail.

• Consumer Goods food & beverage beauty & personal care consumer health and wellness pet food and accessories.

• Leisure travel foodservice health & fitness multi-site leisure and entertainment gaming sports.

This role is for you if:

• Significant experience from either a strategy consulting firm or strategy position in industry with experience in conducting and managing strategy consulting projects including but not limited to commercial diligence growth strategy target operating model etc.

• Managerial experience of strategic commercial consulting or business development from within a large corporate Consumer business Experience within Private Equity (investment or operational role)

• Youll have a very structured approach to problem solving and exceptional analytical skills Strong client management skills including an understanding of how to communicate with clients of different backgrounds and opinions

• Proven experience of coaching junior team members

• An ability to multitask effectively and balance time between project delivery and business development support effectively

• Experienced in running projects on a day-to-day basis structuring and managing the work streams and supervising delivery

• Planning Hypotheses and analysis; formulating hypotheses based on previous experience knowledge of the sector and understanding of the scope of work

• As a Senior Manager you will be experienced in delivering client projects supporting junior members of the team and driving business development

What youll receive from us:

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life our benefits are designed to add value and support recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.