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DirectorJob Description & Summary
A career within Corporate and Business Strategy services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients solve their toughest problems and seize essential advantages by defining and evaluating strategies of all types. We analyse business and market trends to explore new approaches that help our clients make tough choices and surpass the competition. At both the business unit and corporate level, we help organisations with organic enterprise growth, pricing and profitability, shareholder value, and sustainable corporate strategies.*Why PWC
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As a Director, at Strategy& you will have responsibility for leading teams across engagements and driving results and outcomes. Directors typically come with 8-12 yrs of experience having demonstrated extensive knowledge of and/or success in professional services or corporate roles, helping companies define and evaluate corporate and business unit strategies and investment portfolios, reflecting market, competitive and other external drivers. Specific areas of focus and expertise include Corporate Strategy, Business Strategy, Deals Strategy, Digital Strategy, Market entry, Go-to-Market and transformation projects.
Responsibilities:
• Highly evolved problem structuring, solving skills (which includes both a quantitative and a qualitative orientation); strong analytical thinking, ability to leverage and apply problem solving frameworks across a variety of industries, problem and situations
• • Building productive and collaborative relationships with clients, team members;
• • Ability to disrupt, improve and evolve thinking of teams, challenge the ‘status quo’
• • Able to arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realize their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• • Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• • Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• • Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• • Ability to promote and encourage others to value differences when working in diverse teams.
• • Create opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• • Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• • Communicating effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner in written and verbal formats;
Mandatory skill sets:
• Demonstrated academic & leadership achievement
• • Real thought leadership, combined with strong analytical and problem-solving skills (which includes both a quantitative and a qualitative orientation);
• • Have reputation of a creative thinker and be able to solve complex problems
• • Demonstrated ability to lead teams to drive results and outcomes in a dynamic environment
Preferred skill sets:
• Demonstrated academic & leadership achievement
• • Demonstrates proven intimate knowledge of and/or success in professional services or corporate roles, helping companies define and evaluate corporate and business unit strategies and investment portfolios, reflecting market, competitive and other external drivers.
• • Demonstrates a high level of leadership, strategic and creative thinking, problem solving, individual initiative.
• • Real thought leadership, combined with strong analytical and problem-solving skills (which includes both a quantitative and a qualitative orientation);
• • Business judgment and maturity, including the ability to develop a "big picture" view Intellectual curiosity;
• • Strong personal presence, combined with compelling and professional presentation and communication skills;
• • Able to develop productive relationships with clients at multiple levels
• • Developing the intuition, execution, and platform to build a business;
• • Capturing, commercializing, contributing to, and leveraging the firm’s knowledge assets
• • Initiative, personal organization, motivation, and ownership of one’s work;
• • Role models, mentors for Senior managers, managers & junior consultants
Years of experience required: 8-12Y
Education qualification:
• An advanced degree such as a MBA or PhD or masters in science, engineering etc;
• • Minimal of 8-12 years relevant top tier consulting, industry or functional work experience showing strong career progression and (academic) achievement with minimum 4 yrs. experience in leading multi stakeholder teams and complex work streams in top tier consulting firms
• Practical experience in one or more of the following: o Strategy or strategic planning; Project leadership
o Organizational restructuring/transformation
o Business development, marketing, or sales
o Digital Strategy & transformations
• Ability to adapt and work across multiple sectors, problem areas, demonstrating superior business acumen, ability to manage teams in consulting
• Willingness to travel domestic & international to client locations
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Degrees/Field of Study required: Master of Business AdministrationDegrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
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Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Government Clearance Required?
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