Growth Strategy Manager
In our team you will learn:
- To drive short term growth and rapid revenue generation through ‘find and prove the value’ analytical methods and the application of private equity style ways of working
- To develop modern corporate strategies that allow organisations to make choices on their customers, geographies, routes to market and products
- To anticipate ways digital and technology innovation impacts business models and harness them to create new routes to growth
- To bring to market new products and businesses effectively and successfully
- To generate sustained value through next generation pricing and commercial models
As a Growth Strategy Manager, you will:
- Help shape the approach to projects, including developing work and team resource plans
- Manage parts of project workstreams or deliverables in client delivery work
- Present to senior clients to validate analysis and share recommendations
- Coach and develop more junior team members in project work
- Own the development of client proposals for new business
- Contribute to developing offerings, assets, capabilities and relevant thought leadership
We are looking for experience in the following areas:
- Corporate growth expertise:
- Able to support assessment of portfolio strategies to identify growth opportunities across markets, customers and products
- Can confidently size opportunities and build investment cases
- Able to contribute to architecting of new customer propositions or business models that unlock identified growth opportunities
- Analytical thinkers: Utilise quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to rigorously interrogate data sets and generate robust and impactful strategic insights
- Innovation practitioners: Knowledge of how to apply innovation tools and techniques such as design thinking to creatively shape solutions that can enable growth strategies
- Pro-active solution finders: Able to take initiative and make things happen with moderate supervision and guidance
- Ambiguity navigators: Comfortable working on difficult issues where there can be no definitive “right” answer
- Multi-taskers: Capable of working on multiple, overlapping tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communicators: Ability to succinctly and simply convey concepts in both written and verbal form
- Client collaborators: Keen on daily interaction and close collaboration with the client and able to build and sustain relationships
- Strategic enthusiasts: Interested in long-term strategic thinking and the implementation of business improvement recommendations that impact top line revenue growth and drive margin expansion
- Team-players: Team-player, ready and willing to support others and contribute to the shared success of project and client teams
Set yourself apart:
- Experience of private equity ways of working to deliver growth in a turnaround scenario
- Knowledge of corporate strategy big bets like digital commerce, subscription models, direct to consumer or membership propositions
- Proven history of working on strategic projects in a top tier consulting firm consulting firm or internal corporate strategy team