Manager, Strategy Consulting, Private Equity/Consumer Retail in London

Kaiser Associates is a leading global strategy consulting firm with offices in Washington, DC and London. Kaiser offers a distinctive consulting experience that combines the client prestige and diverse opportunity of a large firm with the close-knit community and entrepreneurial culture of a small firm. With a focus on strategy, we offer development opportunities, accessible senior leadership, and an accelerated path to partner. For decades, Kaiser challenged the heavy travel paradigm, recognising that many activities are best performed in Kaiser’s own offices and without any travel to the client site, creating a healthier work-life balance for our consultants and greater value for cost to our clients.

Our Private Equity and Consumer Retail practices support some of the largest companies in the space, with clients spanning six continents, in developing effective commercial growth and profit strategies, with offerings in the specific solution areas of market opportunity assessment, go-to-market strategies, competitive strategy, and product commercialisation.

About the role: Being a manager at Kaiser offers unrivalled opportunity for personal and professional growth. Managers at Kaiser are the linchpin of our client-facing efforts and play a pivotal role in business- and team management activities. As a core member of our Private Equity and Consumer Retail practices, this Manager will also be an integral part in practice development and will play a key role in practice strategy and business growth activities.

Responsibilities:

• High-level project management, project delivery, client relationship handling and stakeholder management in the context of complex, matrixed assignments.
• Structure and manage project work from start to finish, including team oversight and management of client deliverables.
• Help structure analyses, organise research and data gathering efforts and provide quality assurance across the content development lifecycle.
• Proactive management of engagement economics, timelines, and issue resolution.
• Serve as a key point of contact between the team, senior officers of the firm, and clients.
• Develop and bring thought leadership forward for business development purposes with existing and new clients.
• Coach and support the professional development of team members in the process of case work, as well as through dedicated learning and development efforts.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience within a prominent strategy consulting firm; prior consulting manager experience preferred.
• MBA degree preferred; undergraduate degree required.
• Proven ability managing and delivering data-intensive assignments – market sizing, economic/econometric analysis, pricing and statistical analysis.
• Experience managing high-performing teams, client stakeholders and effective upward- and downward management style.
• Experience working with, advising and engaging senior business leaders.

Additional Qualifications for Success:

• High level of self-motivation and energy, including the ability to work with limited supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Confidence, maturity, and poise, as well as a positive, “can-do” attitude.
• Comfort working with, and leading groups, as well as sensitivity to individual, group, and organisational dynamics.
• Creative, “big picture” thinking while maintaining keen attention to detail.
• Exceptional communication (verbal and written) skills.