Managing Consultant (Business Transformation) - 12 month contract

About Schroders

We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. We have around 6,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

Schroders' Business Transformation Solutions (BTS) team is Schroders' internal management consultancy function. The function provides Strategic Solutions to the entire Schroders Group, across a range of service lines such as strategy and business model design, target operating models, shaping & support for large-scale complex transformation, business architecture and people transformation.

What you'll do

As a Management Consultant in the BTS Team, you will be involved in a range of consultancy assignments and other activities which may include:

• Strategy & Business Model Design: Using strategy formation approaches to facilitate the definition of business strategies through working with relevant business stakeholders, development of vision statements and business models for discrete business areas, and research initiated to address gaps in knowledge relating to a specific business issue.
• Target Operating Models: Creation of Target Operating Models (TOMs) for discrete business domains and functions, using standard Schroders methodology, and business analysis to support capability design, process analysis and organisational transformation.
• Change Management: Creation of business cases for initiatives under consideration, shape, influence and play a key role in strategic initiatives, and collaborate with business and programme teams to clarify priorities, stakeholder management, design governance, and TOM implementation activities.

Responsibilities of the role

As a Managing Consultant in the Business Transformation Solutions team, you will be expected to:

• Lead the delivery of consulting assignments and/or play a key role on large / complex assignments;
• Build positive relationships with GMC / GMC-1 level stakeholders within the organisation;
• Operate as a role model for the rest of the Business Consultancy team through leading by example;
• Influence the agenda for the team through leading service proposition design, thought leadership and the injection of innovative ideas and ways of thinking;
• Challenge conventional wisdom and freely express your own opinion.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Over 5 years of experience in a (management) consultancy role, or as high-performing analyst in an investment management environment;
• Investment management experience gained primarily in Buy Side organisations;
• Knowledge of the Investment Management value chain and end to end processes;
• Experience working on large and complex consultancy assignments;
• Established track record of strategy development, operating model definition and large-scale change implementation;
• An understanding and experience of iterative delivery methodologies;
• Understanding of change management disciplines, processes and tools.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• Educated to a minimum of first / Bachelors degree;
• Professional or higher-level degree qualifications;
• Relevant Change Management qualifications.

What you'll be like

• Self-starters with ability to prioritise and manage own activities;
• Analytical, strategic thinkers who can digest large amounts of complex information;
• Collaborative team players;
• Effective relationship builders;
• Strong communicators;
• Empathetic and professional, with high EQ;
• Comfortable working with ambiguity.

We recognise potential, whoever you are. Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.