Director - Retail & Consumer Strategy

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Anson McCade Ltd - IT and Finance Recruitment Full time

**Director - Retail & Consumer Strategy**

As a Director within a large multi-national consultancy's Retail & Consumer group, you are a leading thought-partner to clients, solving strategy problems for them through the delivery of engagements, and helping build our strategy consulting business. Youwill lead client engagements through hypothesis-led problem solving, building client relationships, and managing the professional development of the team. You will be working with consultants from across our global offices and will have the opportunity tointeract with leading international clients across the Retail and Consumer sectors.

On projects, you will be the point-of-contact for senior client stakeholders and ensure both high-quality delivery and pursue business development opportunities. Typical daily activities include structuring approaches and solutions to dealing with clientissues, story-boarding project deliverables, coordinating multiple workstreams alongside driving business development pursuits.

Outside of engagements, Directors are mentors within the firm, acting as people-managers and coaches for our internal consultants. A significant part of your role will be around coaching and developing our junior team. In addition, engaging regularly withthe full organisation and broader Retail and Consumer communities is key to growing our firm. Participating in thought leadership and building new initiatives based on personal interests and client / market needs are some of the many ways our consultants continueto develop the business.

The global consultancy offers in-depth training across all consulting levels and will support your development throughout your career, using a combination of formal training programmes and on-the-job coaching. Our consultants combine these experiences todevelop core analytical thinking skills to deliver tangible impact for our clients.

**Key Requirements for a Director - Retail & Consumer**
- Manage client engagements from initiation to end deliverables and beyond, including management of the project team (or supporting Senior Managers in doing so)
- Use analytical, hypothesis-driven thinking to form and shape solutions to unstructured client problems
- Lead on project proposals and developing new business opportunities
- Develop and maintain a network of senior client relationships
- Coach and develop junior team members, with a focus on developing knowledge in the Retail & Consumer sectors, and other career development questions
- Engage with the broader business and Retail & Consumer communities to develop firm presence, including the publication of thought leadership pieces
- Participate, as needed, in recruitment activities

**The Essentials of a Retail & Consumer Director**
- 8+ years' experience within strategy consulting / management consulting
- Significant experience working with or for major retail and/or consumer goods companies
- Demonstrated academic excellence, e.g. university degree, postgraduate qualifications, MBA
- The ability to think strategically about business and industry trends and use analytical, problem-solving techniques to break down issues into the 'so what'
- A track record of delivering quality work for clients, demonstrating an understanding of the clients' requirements, together with the ability to act as a true adviser even in difficult circumstances
- A track record of business development across client accounts
- Experience managing 3-5 individuals or more

**Director - Retail & Consumer Strategy

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