Fit for Growth, Strategy& - Management Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Role Summary:

Strategy&, PwC’s global strategy consulting business has an exciting opportunity available for a Fit for Growth consultant that will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. 

Fit for growth (FFG) is a strategic approach to cost transformation that connects choices about cost management, capability development, and organizational change. FFG is one of the most important strategic topics for client executives across all industries and a key component of PwC’s purpose statement to “Build trust in society and solve important problems”. This is a major focus and component of PwC’s strategy for the next decade.

Our Strategy& global strategy consulting business works with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever-changing environment. We help enable sustainable change by developing & aligning business strategy with capability & cost, ensuring a competitive advantage.

We are one of the top three strategy consultancies globally, bringing the very best strategic thinking to help clients solve their toughest problems, and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. In joining, you’ll help develop strategies that translate into action and help our clients power ahead in fiercely competitive global markets.

Strategy& has several distinct characteristics, including a unique career track, a world-class and globally defined training curriculum, structured mentorship programmes, and leading people processes. 

When you join Strategy&, you join a global team with a proud heritage of pioneering ideas and through leadership. Strategy& focuses on the development of high impact and pragmatic strategies to solve complex problems and maximise market potential and differentiation. This is achieved through leveraging and strengthening core capabilities within the business and driving sustainable shareholder/stakeholder value and bottom line and impact. Our strategies incorporate detailed analytics, global and local leading practices and case studies, innovation, industry and domain SMEs, design business architecture and design of journey. 

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Post graduate degree from a top tier University in either Engineering, Commerce, Mathematics and/or Actuarial Science

Experience required:

• Minimum 7 years’ strategic work experience within industry
• OR Minimum 5 years’ consulting experience at a top strategy consulting firm.
• Proven track record in the management and delivery of the full consulting cycle
• Strong Excel and Data analytics skills with experience in BI tools & SQL
• Tangible experience and evidence in business optimization, cost reduction, operating model change, innovation and digital transformation
• Strong understanding and exposure to strategy and consulting work
• Able to demonstrate involvement in delivery of complex projects
• Experienced in defining, delivering and validating impact-based initiatives

Responsibilities of role:

You will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Your responsibilities on client assignments will include:

• Shape, manager and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria
• Manage, lead and inspire client engagements
• Oversee client assignments through to natural conclusion
• Manage client, internal leadership and other relevant stakeholder relationships
• Manage client risks, governance and project administration (including financial management, project profitability, scope and timelines)
• Build productive and lasting relationships within Strategy& and PwC at all levels and be seen as a valued member of the office community 
• Develop high quality proposals and support other business development initiatives.
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Develop internal relationships and your brand within Strategy& and PwC

Skill sets required:

• Able to work cross functionally with PwC competencies in a seamless and cohesive manner
• Be culturally and diversity aware and supportive of our South African and African contexts
• Demonstrate deep knowledge and awareness of current market trends and activities of key competitors
• Develop and shape proposals and propositions across countries, functions, sectors and accounts
• Adhere to and promote quality and risk management standards
• Focus on improving profitability while managing business risk
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills to facilitate interaction across hierarchies and functions
• Demonstrate near expert level of analytics and attention to detail, whilst having the ability to articulate the situation and identify high level issues 
• Possess the flexibility and commercialism to manage a diverse range of responsibilities in a dynamic and results oriented environment.
• Able to demonstrate flexibility in adjusting to highly varied projects and rapidly coming up the learning curve in unfamiliar industries and functions 
• Proven track record of successfully completing a variety of projects, ranging from strategy definition, opportunity identification & solution design, initiative implementation, cost reduction and business optimization across industries
• An individual that is able to work with people in team environments or alone as required

Role related attributes:

• Ability to work within and lead teams in an autonomous strategic, consulting environment and be seen as a strong team player with excellent communication and client handling skills
• Self-motivated and capable of developing innovative approaches to difficult issues
• Excellent attention to detail
• Highly analytical mind and structured thinking with sound business judgment and maturity, including the ability to develop a “big picture” view (intellectual curiosity) 
• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the organisation (client and internal), rapidly building rapport, establishing your credibility and gaining trust 
• Good organizational, time management and planning skill
• Positive outlook and contributor to a healthy team environment