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Defence Strategy - Senior Manager

London
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About The Role

A career within Public Sector Strategy Consulting will provide you with the opportunity to work alongside public sector leaders to solve their toughest problems and realise their greatest opportunities. We work with government departments and agencies, local authorities and public services to understand their unique issues and opportunities in an ever-changing environment. Specifically, in the Defence sector, we help with creating strategies, such as organisational transformation, digital enablement, driving productivity and efficiency; and the delivery of new capability. As part of our growth plans, we are looking to recruit a Strategy Senior Manager to work across our Defence, Space and aerospace clients.

As a Senior Manager, you'll lead a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex issues using a range of strategy skills and methodologies.

What Your Days Will Look Like

  • Reporting to the Partner and Director team, you will have responsibility for managing client projects, structuring the work schedule and driving each assignment to a successful conclusion
  • Producing clear, persuasive and concise documents for Executive audiences.
  • Building productive and lasting client relationships at all levels
  • Directing analysis, assessing the depth required on each assignment, translating the analysis into useful findings and quality assuring the results in conjunction with project leadership
  • Planning and managing the delivery of quality work
  • Defining the source and level of data gathering required to solve complex problems in a short timeframe
  • Managing the development of junior team members on projects and identifying opportunities for them to grow and build their skills
  • Building relationships within the PwC Network at all levels and be seen as a valued member of the community, including proactively leading internal, firm-building activities

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This Role Is For You If

  • Experienced strategy adviser or policy maker with extensive experience working with the Ministry of Defence, the Armed Forces and/or the Aerospace and Defence sector
  • Experience of developing organisational strategy/policy and supporting senior stakeholders to transform their business
  • Excellent Stakeholder Management skills with experience of leading projects and/ or large scale strategy and operations change programmes
  • Ability to focus on one or more of delivering: Operational Transformation, Capabilities Development, Strategic Cost Reduction and Digital Disruption
  • Intellectually curious, with the ability to demonstrate strong problem solving skills
  • Ability to lead self and others, in particular, experience in leading teams in challenging situations and coaching others to high performance
  • Experience in leading functionally, geographically and culturally diverse teams
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What You’ll Receive From Us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.

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Skills

Strategy Consulting
Stakeholder Management
Project Management
Organizational Transformation
Digital Enablement
Problem Solving
Team Leadership
Data Analysis
Coaching
Operational Transformation
Capabilities Development
Strategic Cost Reduction
Digital Disruption
Policy Making

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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