Senior Associate - 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.

Our Strategy Consulting professionals partners with global clients to design and execute complex transformation programs that drive measurable business impact. Senior Associates play a critical role in supporting delivery across engagements, bridging the gap between business and technology and translating client priorities into executable digital and operational solutions.

You will collaborate with executives, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to define requirements, craft business cases, and design scalable, technology-enabled strategies. Your work will span enterprise transformations, digital reinvention, and business model redesign, helping clients leverage data, automation, and cloud ecosystems to achieve growth and operational agility.

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 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.

Core Responsibilities of Senior Associate would entail (not limited to)

Responsibilities

As part of the team, you’ll collaborate with experienced consultants and industry professionals to help clients address complex business challenges. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to capture and translate business requirements into actionable digital and operational solutions
• Build financial and operational business cases to assess transformation of feasibility, ROI, and value realization for clients
• Support large-scale digital transformation programs by coordinating across functional and technical workstreams, tracking progress, and managing risks and dependencies
• Assess client operating models, value chains, and functional processes to identify pain points, efficiency levers, and opportunities for growth or reinvention
• Collaborate with client technology teams to evaluate integration patterns, APIs, and data platforms that enable scalable digital solutions
• Demonstrate working knowledge of cloud architectures (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP), enterprise systems, and emerging technologies relevant to transformation programs
• Facilitate working sessions with executives and cross-functional teams to align business, technology, and change initiatives
• Contribute to roadmap design, change enablement, and adoption planning for enterprise-wide digital or business model transformations
• Participate in knowledge development, internal accelerators, and capability-building efforts that advance PwC’s transformation offerings
  
  

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

• Ability to deconstruct complex transformation challenges and translate them into structured, actionable work plans
• Skilled at translating business goals into digital and data-driven solutions, with familiarity in integration patterns, APIs, and cloud-based architectures
• Experience in supporting or managing large transformation programs involving multiple stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables
• Proficiency in building models and assessing business cases for digital or operational transformation investments
• Strong data interpretation, visualization, and storytelling skills to synthesize complex insights and communicate them clearly to both business and technical audiences
• Working knowledge of tools such as Power BI, Alteryx, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and familiarity with cloud platforms, enterprise systems, and data integration tools
• Comfort engaging with senior stakeholders, managing expectations, and facilitating discussions between executives and engineering teams
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, adapt to evolving client priorities, and stay current with emerging technologies and transformation methodologies
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, and domain knowledge
• Effective storytelling and communication skills to various audiences (written and verbal)
  
  

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 Opportunities 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
• 4 - 6 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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