Director - Strategy Consulting - Insurance Asset & Wealth Management

A career in our Strategy Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, 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. We work 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 create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create 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.

As a Director within Strategy&’s Insurance and Asset Wealth Management (I&AWM) group, you are a leading thought-partner to clients, solving important problems for them through the delivery of engagements, and helping build our strategy consulting business. You will lead client engagements through hypothesis-led problem solving, building client relationships, and managing the personal development of the team. You will be working with consultants from across our global offices and will have the opportunity to interact with leading international clients across the I&AWM sector.

On projects, you will be the point-of-contact for senior client stakeholders and ensure both high-quality delivery and further business development. Typical daily activities include structuring approaches and solutions to dealing with client issues, story-boarding project deliverables, and coordinating multiple workstreams.

Outside of engagements, Directors are mentors within the firm, acting as people-managers and coaches for Strategy& consultants. A significant part of your role will be around coaching and developing our junior team. In addition, engaging regularly with the full Strategy& and broader I&AWM communities is key to growing our firm. Participating in thought leadership and building new initiatives based on personal interests and client / market needs are some of the many ways Strategy& consultants continue to develop the business.

Strategy& offers in-depth training across all consulting levels and will support your development throughout your career, using a combination of formal training programmes and on-the-job coaching. Our consultants combine these experiences to develop core analytical thinking skills to deliver tangible impact for our clients.

As a part of Strategy&, you will support clients in developing their capabilities across functions, whether it is: strategy development, target operating model design, cost reviews and approaches, or other topics such as functional capabilities development (e.g., underwriting, claims). This is an exciting time for the industry and for Strategy& as we help insurers, as well as asset and wealth managers transform their businesses to adapt to changing industry environments and win in these markets.

Key Requirements

• Manage client engagements from initiation to end deliverables and beyond, including management of the project team (or supporting Senior Managers in doing so)

• Use analytical, hypothesis-driven thinking to form and shape solutions to unstructured client problems

• Lead on project proposals and developing new business opportunities

• Develop and maintain a network of senior client relationships

• Coach and development junior team members, with a focus on develop knowledge in the I&AWM industry, and other career development questions

• Engage with the broader Strategy& and I&AWM communities to develop firm presence, including the publication of thought leadership pieces

• Participate, as needed, in recruitment activities

The Essentials

• Experience managing 3-5 individuals or more

• The ability to think strategically about business and industry trends and use analytical, problem-solving techniques to break down issues into the ‘so what’

• A track record of delivering quality work for clients, demonstrating an understanding of the clients’ requirements, together with the ability to act as a true adviser even in difficult circumstances

• A track record of business development across client accounts

• 6+ years’ experience within strategy/management consulting

Consulting
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

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