2017 Industrial Placement - Consulting - Strategy and Operations

These are exciting times for our part of the business. Thanks to our recent acquisition of strategy pure play group Monitor, we now claim an unrivalled position in the market. Combining the scale and strength of a top four firm, with the cutting edge of a boutique.

Our people work with all kinds of organisations, helping them make the most important decisions our clients have to make. These are defining choices that will shape their ambitions and give them clear competitive advantages.

Within this field we only hire the best. You have to be smart, articulate and able to credibly advise some of the largest organisations in the market. So be prepared.

Typical skill sets include:

• Financial strategists
• Digital Strategy and customer engagement specialists
• Policy economics and regulatory strategy
• Sector specialists working across all industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial services and automotive.
• Business model transformation
• Service operations (six sigma, cost reduction)

In Consulting you’ll be helping clients solve some of their most complex problems, all the way from developing the initial ideas to delivering and measuring the end results ? all across some wide-ranging projects.

You’ll work alongside a diverse team including deep technical experts, industry leaders, and project management specialists to deliver ingenious solutions and valuable insights to support to our clients. You’ll gain hands-on experience helping clients from every industry across the country solve their most challenging and intriguing problems.

Typical Activities and Business Areas

• Strategy and Operations Consulting: Business leaders must act with conviction in an era of growing complexity and change. These business leaders need clear, concise, well-informed perspectives on the important dynamics that are currently reshaping their business environments. Our global network of Strategy and Operations professionals draws on the strength of Deloitte’s full suite of professional services and industry experience to help drive major operational change and resolve the most fundamental issues affecting businesses today.
• Monitor Deloitte: Strategy is about choices. Monitor Deloitte, our strategy consulting offering, works side by side with our clients to make the choices that will help stretch and sharpen their ambition.
• Supply Chain: We provide leading edge supply chain advice in all aspects of strategic and tactical assessment, design and implementation to improve supply chain operations, profitability and create significant commercial advantage.
• Business Model Transformation: Business Model Transformation looks at how we improve the overall operating model of an organisation in order to deliver on strategic objectives and drive commercial performance ? be it capturing new growth opportunities, reducing costs or transforming operational effectiveness.
• Service Operations: We work to improve profitability and business productivity through process simplification, operating cost reduction, and service improvement. We focus on the full front-to-back value chain (including front office), as well as supporting business functions such as operations, risk, technology and finance to improve the quality of service delivery.
• Finance: We help chief finance officers execute the financial strategies that underpin business objectives, drive performance improvements across the business and transform the efficiency and effectiveness of financial processes.

Our offer

Exposure to complex businesses. Insights into major sectors. Experience of whole industries. You can expect all of this on an industrial placement with Deloitte. You’ll benefit from world-class training too, alongside our graduate intake. Then take on a role that’s the same as our first year graduates. This means, you’ll not only get vital business experience, but a head start if you choose to join our Graduate Programme later. You could even go back to university with a job offer guaranteed.

At Deloitte it’s the mind-set that shapes the role. As part of the IP and early career community we offer the chance to start a career with a firm of problem solvers - the best minds in the industry ? with guidance from inspirational and supportive senior managers and every opportunity to grow and progress.

Deloitte is a business that doesn’t just recognise the need for diversity, but fully embraces it. Agile working is a way of life. Ownership is highly rewarded and leadership is visible at every level to guide you every step of the way.

Additional information

• Academic requirements
• How to apply
• Selection process
• Learning and development

Job family ? Strategy & Operations (JFSAO)

These are exciting times for our part of the business. Our Strategy & Operations team enjoys an unrivalled position in the market, combining the scale and strength of a top four firm, with the cutting edge of a boutique.

Our people work with all kinds of organisations, helping them make the most important decisions our clients have to make. These are defining choices that will shape their ambitions and give them clear competitive advantages.

About Deloitte

Our Purpose & Strategy

To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society - defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size; it's about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients and the first choice for the best talent.

What do we do?

Deloitte offers Global integrated professional services that include Audit and Risk Advisory, Tax Consulting, Consulting and Financial Advisory. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.

What do we value?

We value difference, with respect at the heart of our inclusive culture. We are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support agile working arrangements. We recognise that our people are juggling demanding careers with commitments and interests outside of work.

Hear from some of our people already working at Deloitte in agile ways.

We are proud to have received a special award for Best Innovation for our WorkAgility Time Out programme in the 2015 Top Employers for Working Families awards.

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