Associate - Strategy -Enterprise And 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, support 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:

• Conduct business, market, and competitor research to support hypothesis-driven problem solving
• Build structured analyses and develop insights from quantitative and qualitative data
• Develop and maintain Excel models to support financial, operational, and strategic decision-making
• Translate data and research findings into clear, compelling storylines using PowerPoint and other visualization tools
• Collaborate with project teams to support the design of strategic frameworks, work plans, and diagnostic approaches
• Engage in working sessions, client discussions, and internal meetings to align on deliverables and facilitate decision-making
• Assess current processes and assist in identifying opportunities for improvement across client value chains
• Support the development of client recommendations and contribute to internal knowledge building and thought leadership initiatives
  
  

• Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to break down unstructured problems into logical components
• Strong and effective storytelling and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Synthesizing research and data into actionable recommendations
• Curiosity and willingness to learn about strategy, businesses, and industry-specific challenges
• Self-driven to keep pace with leading business trends and ability to articulate associated strategic implications across one or multiple industries
• Attention to detail and ability to support multiple workstreams in a dynamic project environment
• Comfort working collaboratively in team setting and taking ownership of assigned tasks
• Preferred experience with data analysis, modeling and visualization using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint or other tools
  
  

• B.E. / B.Tech. (4-year full-time course) from a premier / tier 1 institute or B.A. / B.B.A. / B.Com, Economic Honours (3-year full-time course) from a premier / tier 1 institute
• Experience in analytics, business consulting, market research or strategy roles
• Exposure to a multinational environment will be an added bonus