Manager- Strategy -Enterprise And Functional Strategy GSandR

At PwC, our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends, assess business performance, and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth, optimise operations, and enhance overall business performance. As a corporate and business strategy consultant at PwC, you will analyse client needs, provide consulting services across different strategic areas, and offer guidance and support to help clients develop and implement effective strategies that align with their business objectives and drive growth.

What does this role entail?

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, or digital transformation, Strategy provides the strategic backbone for driving profitability, competitiveness, and market differentiation.

As part of the Growth & Business Model Reinvention (BMR) capability within Enterprise & Functional Strategy, our teams work with global clients to reimagine how businesses create, deliver, and capture value in an era defined by digital disruption and AI-driven transformation.

Managers play a pivotal role in leading project teams, shaping client engagements, and translating strategic ambitions into executable, technology-enabled outcomes. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions to define requirements, build business cases, and design future-ready operating models. This role bridges strategy, delivery, and digital solutioning, ensuring that our clients’ transformation journeys are practical, value-oriented, and scalable.

Competency Overview: Enterprise & Functional Strategy

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.

Job Description

Job responsibilities mainly include activities driven towards inspiring other team members and delivering results, develop processes and guidance to conduct research and analysis, identify value-creation opportunities, lead project teams and facilitate meetings to enable decision making and client conversations. Additionally, organize and prepare recommendations to address client problems, and participate actively in new business development, thought leadership and firm building activities; and develop relationships with senior leadership to drive growth and run operations of the wider team.

A Manager in the Strategy Consulting practice plays a key leadership role in delivering high-impact strategic engagements, managing cross-functional teams, and building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders. They are responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of complex strategy projects, guiding clients through critical business decisions, and contributing actively to the growth and intellectual capital of the firm.

Core responsibilities of Manager would entail (but not limited to)

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

• Lead the translation of client business objectives into clearly defined requirements and functional/technical solutions aligned to transformation goals.
• Develop and validate business cases to quantify ROI, efficiency gains, and value realization for digital and operational transformation programs.
• Manage large-scale transformation programs, coordinating across business, digital, and engineering stakeholders to drive delivery excellence and risk mitigation.
• Assess client operating models, process flows, and value chains to identify digital levers that drive growth and efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and IT teams to evaluate cloud architecture, APIs, data platforms, and enterprise systems that enable seamless digital enablement.
• Engage directly with client executives and senior managers to facilitate workshops, shape recommendations, and ensure alignment of strategy, technology, and change objectives.
• Support implementation planning, change enablement, and governance to ensure sustainable adoption of digital initiatives.
• Contribute to intellectual capital, frameworks, and solution accelerators that strengthen PwC’s Growth & BMR practice and enhance our market presence.
• Team Leadership & Capability building
• Manage and mentor diverse, high-performing teams by providing clear strategic direction, fostering collaboration, and supporting the development of both consulting and digital fluency skills
• Inspire consultants through coaching, feedback, and skill-building opportunities to elevate the overall team performance
• Ensure quality, consistency, and rigor in all project deliverables, serving as the escalation point for critical client issues
• Business Development & Practice Build
• Contribute to business development by identifying client opportunities where digital and AI solutions can address core pain points, shape value propositions, and participate in proposal development and presentations
• Build and sustain long-term client relationships, acting as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leaders across industries
• Drive the development of thought leadership, methodologies, and reusable strategic frameworks to strengthen the firm’s consulting capabilities and market presence
  
  

Knowledge Preferred

Candidates are expected to demonstrate foundational knowledge in one or more areas of technology, along with strong analytical skills to effectively understand and address client needs:

Must-have Skills

• Proven expertise in industry and strategy consulting, with a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes through close collaboration with client stakeholders and internal project teams
• Demonstrated experience in leading teams across project workstreams or full engagements, independently managing priorities, resources, and timelines
• Exceptional storytelling and communication abilities, both written and verbal, with the capability to influence and engage executive audiences, adapt messaging to stakeholder needs, and translate complex business and digital concepts into clear, actionable narratives
• Advanced analytical thinking, with the ability to synthesize complex data, market intelligence, research findings, and technical insights into actionable strategic recommendations that drive transformation and enterprise value
• Strong intellectual curiosity and commercial awareness, continuously monitoring emerging business trends, market shifts, disruptive technologies, and AI-driven innovations to inform client strategies across multiple industries
• Strategic orientation towards technology, including a solid understanding of how digital tools, assets, and innovation can enable strategic transformation and enhance client performance
• Proficiency in data analysis, business modeling, and visualization, using tools such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI, Alteryx, or similar platforms to support data-driven decision-making
• Operational knowledge of project management methodologies and collaboration tools
  
  

Good-to-have Skills

• Strong work ethic, proactive and professional behavior
• Strategic and creative thinker, problem solver
• Awareness of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), integration patterns (APIs), and enterprise data platforms; familiarity with emerging technologies and AI tools
• Comfort working with numbers and models to evaluate ROI and build business case inputs for transformation initiatives
  
  

Your Opportunity at PwC

Learn: Develop business acumen, technical, and technology skills

Apply: Diverse opportunities to showcase your skills in a supportive environment

Grow: Harness your leadership potential to expand your career

Eligibility Criteria

• MBA / PGDM from a premier/ tier 1 B-School
• 7 - 11 years post MBA relevant experience in strategy consulting with expertise in large scale transformations (Growth Strategy, Business Model Reinvention, Enterprise Digital Value Transformation, ERP), business strategy, business value acceleration, enterprise-level growth
• Exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus
  
  

Why PwC

Innovative problem solving: Harness your curiosity and act as an agent for change in society.

Opportunities and emerging technology: Gain access to a global network of experts and resources, build your credentials and experience.

Professional growth and learning: In-depth training programs and mentorship options to support your personalized growth and development journey.

Inclusive and collaborative culture: Thrive in a collaborative environment that values diverse perspectives and champions inclusivity.

Skills-driven work: Develop business acumen, hone your technical skills and explore diverse opportunities to showcase your skills.

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