Senior Associate - Strategy -Enterprise & Functional Strategy – Bangalore

Our Strategy platform helps clients align business goals with enterprise-wide strategies, investments, and operating models. From shaping functional strategies to driving transformation at scale, the platform enables teams to deliver high-impact, insight-led outcomes. Whether advising on growth, cost, customer experience, etc., Strategy provides the strategic backbone for driving profitability, competitiveness, and market differentiation. Our Strategy Consultants work with client and project teams to support global engagements from India, focusing on delivering impactful results. Their responsibilities include conducting primary and secondary research, developing insights, analyzing large data sets, and understanding how our solutions can address client pain points. They capture current processes, identify value driving opportunities, prepare work plans, design to-be processes, work directly with client teams and facilitate meetings to enable decision making. Additionally, they organize and prepare recommendations on client issues and participate actively in new business development, thought leadership and firm building activities.

Competency Overview: Strategy - Enterprise & Functional Strategy (EFS)

Enterprise & Functional Strategy (EFS), a key pillar of the Strategy platform, reshapes enterprise costs to fuel growth. It helps clients holistically transform enterprise cost structures in accordance with corporate strategy by re-allocating spend from commodity capabilities toward differentiating capabilities. Key capabilities include cost baselining and analytics, benchmarking, opportunity identification, value realization strategies, process optimization, functional transformation (e.g., SG&A, Finance, HR, etc. functions), enterprise operating model design, and more. EFS also embeds adaptive, cross-functional strategies to outperform market shifts - developing and executing go-to-market (GTM) strategies, market entry strategies, enterprise growth strategies, and boldly transforming front, middle, and back-office functions.

Thus, as changing business dynamics and processes drive disruption across industries, our community of problem solvers partners with client teams to ensure seamless alignment of their people, processes, and strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Job responsibilities include activities centered around client business challenges and opportunities, e.g., conduct analyses and develop insights, create financial models, analyze large sets of data, work directly with project teams, facilitate meetings to enable decision making, lead analysis and client conversations, organize and prepare recommendations to address client problems, and participate actively in new business development, thought leadership and firm building activities.

Depending on the project, you will be involved throughout the project life cycle, adding value during the problem structuring and analysis phases. Responsibilities include understanding client’s capabilities, business context, assessing current organization structure and operating model, conducting end-to-end value chain diagnostics to unlock levers that can produce sustained performance improvement. Additionally, the role involves designing a future state structure, incorporating innovative solutions and emerging technologies, and enabling change management to ensure seamless integration and adoption of new processes.

Candidates should demonstrate substantial experience and / or knowledge in any sector across the following areas:

• Problem-solve complex business challenges across large scale transformation engagements and apply a holistic approach to align solutions with business value drivers
• Analyze the client's business model, service delivery footprint, key processes, pain points, and business goals to identify transformation levers and opportunities for growth
• Design high-impact solutions and implementation roadmap, aligned with the client's strategic vision, and develop roadmaps for implementation
• Gather and interpret business requirements to craft insights and strategies, aligning growth initiatives with overarching business goals and client success metrics
• Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders, ensuring solutions are robust and achieve strategic goals
• Recommend relevant solutions to support the reimagining of processes, targeting greater business performance and agility
• Deconstruct and map out current processes to streamline operations, optimize workflows, and enhance the customer experience through targeted digital interventions
  
  

What skill does it take?

• Proven industry acumen and strategy consulting skills while working collaboratively with business stakeholders and project teams to deliver measurable results
• Strong and effective storytelling and communication skills (written and verbal) tailored to various situations and audiences
• Synthesizing complex information and generate meaningful insights based on analysis of client’s data and information from primary and secondary research
• Self-driven to keep pace with leading business trends and ability to articulate associated strategic implications across one or multiple industries
• Leading project work streams and working autonomously with minimal direction
• A working understanding of digital tools, assets and accelerators
• Experience with data analysis, modeling and visualization using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Visual Basic, Power BI, Alteryx or other tools
  
  

Qualifications

• MBA / PGDM from a premier/ tier 1 B-School
• Post MBA relevant experience in strategy consulting with expertise in large scale transformations (GBS / GCC / Shared Services transformation, cost transformation, operating model design, or enterprise function optimization), business strategy, business value acceleration, enterprise-level growth
• Exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus