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Strategy& Consulting

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You’ll work on interesting and varied assignments – from helping a company identify attractive new markets, to advising a private equity client on game-changing investments.

Working in Strategy&

PwC’s Strategy& team is a market-leading consulting practice consisting of approximately 400 consultants in London, and also benefiting from the broad expertise and international reach of the wider PwC and Strategy& networks. Strategy& can offer you a career with diverse and challenging assignments - our teams work with a wide variety of UK, European and Global corporate clients (from large consumer goods companies, online retailers and FinTechs to charities, government departments and the public sector) and investors (private equity and investment funds). We deliver a mix of strategy consulting projects, addressing key CEO questions on issues such as growth strategy, market entry, mergers and acquisitions and value creation. We evaluate each company’s unique proposition and market positioning, identifying innovative opportunities for growth and flagging risk areas that need to be addressed. 

We pride ourselves on cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment and our Associates are at the heart of our culture. We empower our people to be the best they can be.

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The Strategy& experience

We have a fast-paced and strong learning culture, where teamwork and a supportive environment are critical. We get great feedback from our clients who enjoy working with our people, and we think you will too. We believe creating a stretching and supportive, team-focused culture gets the most from our people and gets the best results for our clients. With fast progression and opportunities both in the UK and overseas, we can offer you a really exciting start to your career.

You’ll start your career as an Associate, and play an active role in client engagements from day one. You’ll need to exercise commercial awareness, analytical and interpersonal skills in your day-to-day work. Over time, you’ll build the confidence and credibility to present your opinions to clients and senior stakeholders.

Typical Associate responsibilities include:

  • building hypotheses and working as part of a team to address client questions

  • identifying data sources and collecting, interpreting and analysing data

  • conducting interviews and deriving insight from qualitative inputs

  • presenting findings to team members, clients and other senior stakeholders.

Joining as a graduate

Joining us means challenging yourself with work that’s difficult and complex, but also rewarding and fun. You’ll join as an Associate and be the cornerstone of the team. You’ll work with great people and learn fast. Our people come from different backgrounds, with different experiences and different ideas. 

You'll be encouraged to develop your entrepreneurial mindset, valued when you challenge conventional assumptions and listened to during thoughtful debate. Through diversity and debate we deliver innovative, fresh and intelligent solutions to our clients' toughest problems.

From day one you’ll work on interesting and varied strategic assignments. We’ll help you to make sure you continue to maximise your potential by leveraging world-class learning and development programmes that give you continuous support while you learn on-the-job and develop your personal strengths.

Professional development

When you join us, you’ll be assigned a Career and Talent Coach who will work with you to support your development, so that you know how you’re doing and where you can improve. You’ll work side by side with our inspirational leaders, and will receive high-quality training on strategy consulting fundamentals to kickstart your journey towards being a recognised expert in the profession.

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