Indigo Slate
Senior Enterprise Strategy Manager ( 4 days in Office)
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Zensar is a leading digital solutions and technology services company partnering with global organizations on their digital transformation journey. A technology partner of choice, with a strong track-record of innovation, credible investment in digital solutions, and a commitment to client’s success, Zensar’s comprehensive range of services and solutions enable clients achieve new thresholds of performance. Part of the $40 billion Apax Partners’ portfolio of companies, Zensar is uniquely positioned to help existing businesses run efficiently, manage legacy transformation, and plan business growth through innovative digital platforms. Zensar
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Working at Zensar is an enriching experience. While work is driven by innovation and passion, fun is taken seriously too. An open environment is encouraged, making it easy to brainstorm with colleagues. Creative thinking is encouraged through time-out activities. Moreover, the offices have been designed to foster creativity and communication, bringing a little bit of home into work every day. Zensar provides a comprehensive benefit package for all full-time employees.
Zensar is seeking a Senior Enterprise Strategy Manager with 4 Days in office in London, UK.
This is a contract position with the possibility of full-time.
Purpose of Job
Lead the development of enterprise strategy and the most complex strategic initiatives by defining priority questions in partnership with senior executives, shaping structured analysis and strategic options, and advising leadership on choices that affect growth, investment, transformation, operating model, and enterprise performance. Provide senior consulting leadership across multiple workstreams and initiatives, ensure executive-ready outputs, influence stakeholder alignment, and strengthen the strategy function through coaching, methods, and quality leadership.
What are the Accountabilities of the Job?
- Identify, frame, and prioritize enterprise strategic opportunities and challenges, ensuring analysis is decision-relevant and grounded in clear hypotheses.
- Lead the development of strategic recommendations with explicit implications, risks, assumptions, value drivers, and execution considerations.
- Ensure strategy initiatives deliver against enterprise objectives, maintain focus on impact, and surface risks or dependencies early.
- Oversee senior workstreams and integrated project teams, ensuring outputs are aligned, high quality, and connected to a consistent strategic narrative.
- Anticipate executive and stakeholder needs, manage competing incentives, and drive alignment across functions and senior stakeholder groups.
- Lead executive-level materials, Board or ExCo-ready communications, workshops, and decision forums that support clear strategic choices.
- Coach managers and junior team members, provide direction and feedback, and contribute to capability building, methods, frameworks, and continuous improvement.
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What Does This Job Deliver? (Key Accountabilities)
- Lead the framing of enterprise-level strategic priorities, problem statements, and hypotheses for complex, ambiguous business challenges.
- Develop strategic options, evaluate trade-offs, and shape evidence-based recommendations on growth, investment, operating model, customer, technology, and transformation priorities.
- Oversee multiple complex strategic initiatives and senior workstreams, ensuring quality, integration, alignment, and delivery against enterprise priorities.
- Advise senior executives through compelling, executive-ready narratives, decision forums, and strategic workshops that clarify implications, risks, assumptions, and choices.
- Lead stakeholder engagement strategies across business, finance, risk, operations, and technology, managing competing priorities and influencing alignment across senior stakeholders.
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Knowledge And Experience
- Deep knowledge of financial services, including customers, products and services, risk, regulation, and enterprise performance drivers.
- Significant experience in an in-house strategy function, top-tier consulting firm, strategy boutique, or equivalent executive advisory environment.
- Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives, challenge assumptions, and influence enterprise-level decisions involving material trade-offs or investment choices.
- Strong consulting toolkit: hypothesis-driven problem solving, strategic option development, market and competitor analysis, business case development, storylining, and executive facilitation.
- Experience leading senior project or workstream teams in complex environments, with accountability for quality, pace, stakeholder alignment, and measurable business impact.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, able to translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership and Board audiences.
- Ability to balance enterprise-level strategic thinking with pragmatic execution and meticulous attention to detail.
Education
- Degree-level or equivalent qualification; MBA or advanced business qualification preferred
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Indigo Slate
Indigo Slate is a full-service human experience company. We are a digital organization backed by a global engineering leader, and we’re dedicated to helping clients build transformative experiences from start to finish. We create smart experiences that deliver powerful results through a profound intersection of marketing, technology, business, and creative. We understand that brands are no longer judged through their advertising, but through each touchpoint, both internal and external, building strength with every experience.
At Indigo Slate, we harness a mix of skills unique in our industry—equal parts strategic consultancy, creative agency, and technology thought leadership—to build and run some of the best experiences on the planet.
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