Growth Strategy Consultant

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 Consultant, you will:

• Get involved in a wide range of projects across various industries, helping our clients address some of their most pressing and complex strategic challenges
• Support the client in defining strategies and shaping initiatives for business to unlock value and power growth
• Work in a team of experienced consultants, to develop hypotheses and work out plans that address project objectives
• Perform data analysis and translate into concrete insights and recommendations
• Communicate analysis and recommendations in both written and oral communication with internal and client stakeholders
• Build relationships between Accenture and the client’s project team
• Support on business development activities

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Corporate growth expertise:
  • Able to support assessment of portfolio strategies to identify growth opportunities across markets, customers, 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: Can bring to bear quantitive and qualitative analytical skills to rigorously interrogate data sets with and in turn 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 with 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: Confident and natural communicator able 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