Senior Associate - Strategy, West Market Area at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

• A career within our Corporate, Business, Digital and Customer Strategy services will provide you the opportunity to play a central role in solving the most critical strategic problems of our clients, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.
• We analyze business and market trends to explore new approaches that help our clients make tough choices, win in their markets and reposition their businesses in a digital-first world.
• You will have the opportunity to drive transformational business change, working closely with clients executives and leadership as well as Senior Associates, Directors and Partners across Strategy Africa and across Strategy and PwC global network.
• Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others.
• Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths.
• You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality.
• Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Qualification

• First degree, MBA/MSc in relevant courses is a plus, minimum of 4 years consulting experience or relevant industry experience preferred.
• Experience working with clients in the financial services sector, Telecoms and FMCG on corporate and business strategy, digital strategy and transformation and customer strategy (CX and UX).

Experience:

• Planning, and executing complex strategic workstreams as part of client projects, with support from, Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, or Partners
• Undertaking analysis, translating the analysis into useful findings and quality assuring the results in conjunction with project leadership
• Leading data gathering required to solve complex problems in a short timeframe
• Developing hypotheses and insights to unlock challenging client problems

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

• No.