Senior Consultant, Strategy and M&A

at  Deloitte

REQ #

15790
Job description

CONNECT TO YOUR OPPORTUNITY

As a Senior Consultant you will be delivering strategy and M&A work for our clients day-to-day, seeking to shape and initiate strategic direction (both organic and inorganic), define vision and choices, support performance and enable change.
While no two projects are the same, you will typically be delivering a workstream within a larger engagement with oversight and support from a manager or senior colleagues. You’ll play a vital hands-on role in designing and executing the strategic analysis required, conducting research and assembling evidence, distilling insights and constructing organic and inorganic strategic growth recommendations.
At times this will include being the bridge from strategy / pre-deal planning into delivery, and we particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience in digital transformations, alongside core strategy and M&A skills.
To grow with confidence, organisations need to make clear choices about where to play and how to win. In a world where the pace of change is rapid and sometimes unexpected, leaders need to act nimbly and decisively. Deloitte’s strategy and M&A consultants employ cutting edge approaches embedded with deep industry expertise, working with leaders and empowered teams to make critical choices and drive value.

CONNECT TO YOUR SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

At Deloitte, your colleagues and clients will set the bar high. In addition to a CV showing strong performance and good academic credentials, we are looking for people who enjoy addressing complex problems in an analytical manner, with a proven record for effective delivery in demanding strategy and M&A project environments.

Essential

• Experience of strategy development or M&A transactions in one of the following environments:
• Experience of working in a strategic role which analyses a company’s current position and helps to identify and implement future strategy recommendations
• Experience in M&A consulting or a corporate strategy delivery role, delivering large-scale strategic transformation programmes
• Exposure to strategy development and transformation activities and a desire to build a career in this area
• Experience working on projects which involve strategic decision-making and choices
• Demonstratable stakeholder and team management
• Demonstrable experience of managing stakeholder relationships
• Collaborative approach and working style that fosters teaming with other businesses and peers with different working styles

Strategy consulting skillset:

• Ability to use issue-led problem solving, comfort with ambiguity, ability to adapt and learn quickly to think creatively to solve client issues
• Structured thinking and the ability to break down complex issues
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to undertake analysis and generate insights and recommendations
• Strong written and spoken communication skills
• Flexibility to travel

Desirable

• Industry experience in one of the following industries:
• Life Sciences: commercial marketing, medical, R&D or specific therapeutic-area expertise
• Technology, generative AI, telecommunications, media & entertainment, or digital platforms
• Consumer businesses
• Energy & resources
• Industrials and manufacturing
• Financial analysis and corporate finance skills
• UK security clearance (Security Check or higher)
• Postgraduate or professional qualification (e.g. MBA or equivalent), or equivalent experience

• Strategy & Transformation: Design and deliver insight-driven strategy for transformation and wider organisational change. Working with clients to understand and define strategic choices ahead of key investment decisions. Using traditional evidence-led analysis to identify market development opportunities to support client strategies.
• M&A Strategy: Design and define M&A strategies including identifying early target, venturing, or partnering options and building M&A roadmaps.
• Commercial Strategy: Determining the optimum business or commercial model to effectively deliver client objectives. Guiding and supporting clients through imagining, defining and delivering their digital journey to enable competitive advantage. This could include: making choices about the markets served through digital, social, and mobile channels; optimising pricing decisions, supporting procurements / transactions, new commercial constructs between suppliers, distributors and customers, and shaping commercial agendas.
• Strategic Performance: Helping our clients configure effectively and develop their ability to deliver operational excellence in specific areas. Identifying new ways of working that will stimulate innovation and growth, and lead to better decision-making. This may include delivery of improvements through performance optimisation or cost reduction / efficiency methods.
• Business Case Strategy: Supporting organisations in drafting business cases for investment to improve delivery, in line with the strategic ambition. This can often lead to end-to-end support from business case design to implementation of the new resource/ capability/ change.
• M&A Execution: Define and assess synergy targets and business plans, including management of synergy realisation. Support the planning and implementation of integration and separation projects, including the definition and delivery of Day One readiness, post-merger planning and integration execution.

As a Consultant your responsibilities will include:

• Analytic thinking, problem solving and insight: Select appropriate methods for collecting and analysing data, to build an evidence base and develop informed recommendations that shape or support the clients’ business strategy. Independently complete research and analysis to support quality deliverables.
• Tools, skills and frameworks: Develop an understanding of strategy and M&A tools and frameworks to solve client problems and share best practice within the team.
• Project delivery excellence: Own and deliver workstream activities with support from the team leader, providing insight and challenge. Own and deliver high-quality deliverables, planning and managing own activities. Identify and escalate project related issues, and provide appropriate mitigation recommendations.
• Presentation & communication: Clearly communicate the analysis approach and results to team leaders and clients, and contribute insights and challenge. Organise insights and define a logical flow to tell a story when presenting recommendations.
• Leadership & Development: Embody Deloitte’s values and assist management of junior team members to support their development. Have a clear understanding of and demonstrate the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive culture.
• Team management: Assist with management activities, such as team budget, supporting engagement scoping and proactively creating agenda items for meetings.
• Continuous Learning: Proactively develop your own skills, seeking feedback, building knowledge, and sharing your insight with colleagues.
• Relationship management: Work closely with client peers, third parties and Deloitte peers to develop professional relationships.

The team: The role sits within SAMA, Strategy, Analytics and M&A, within Deloitte’s Consulting practice. You will learn from a group of experienced strategists and M&A and industry experts from a diverse range of backgrounds. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Deloitte Strategy and M&A community in the UK and globally, with opportunities to learn best practice strategy and transaction techniques across industries. Beyond the Strategy and M&A team, you will build a network with industry-experts across Deloitte Consulting, in digital, marketing, financial advisory, regulatory and operations.
Development: We offer a structured career path and invest in continuous development and learning, which matter greatly to us. Our growth in recent years has been strong and we have ambitious plans for the future: you will find that there is no lack of opportunity for you to develop your career, wherever you may choose to take it.