Strategy Consultant – Corporate and M&A Strategy

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are recruiting a Strategy Consultant with experience of Mergers and Acquisition Strategy. Join a fast-growing strategy team that drives C‑Suite decision‑making at an international level across a number of industry sectors providing deep contextual insight and fresh perspectives to our clients.

• Provide commercial advice to senior leaders within FTSE100, 250, Fortune 500 companies
• Direct the strategy behind major Government initiatives that shape the UK and the global economy
• Inform clients on how best to grow their business or operations, whether organically or through M&A
• Advise clients on product pricing, customer-targeting strategies, and value creation initiatives
• Provide Commercial Due Diligence services to large investors as part of the M&A process

Operating at the leading edge of consulting, we are market leaders in developing actionable strategies that achieve the fastest path to impact. This includes:

• Enterprise Strategy: We help clients develop long‑term business/organisational strategies (private and public sector) to better enable them to deliver against their objectives, including optimising resource distribution and crafting targeted mergers and acquisition agendas.
• Growth Strategy: We help clients better understand market dynamics and create demand‑driven strategies that identify and capitalise on growth opportunities.
• Sustainability: We work with clients to develop credible and targeted approaches to improve sustainability by providing environment, social and economic prosperity.

We define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses, communities and team members. It’s a principle that underpins everything we do. Our clients choose us because we challenge convention to find the solutions that really work – in practice, not just on paper. Then we roll up our sleeves and get the job done.

We operate across a number of industry sectors, providing deep contextual insight and fresh perspectives to our clients. We are growing our teams in London, recruiting talented team members from a range of backgrounds and experience levels into our consulting ranked roles. You will join a people‑oriented team of experienced and inquisitive individuals who help business leaders across many sectors create a lasting impact on their organisations. You will lead in the development and execution of the latest strategic thinking and have a thirst for insight and problem solving.

Qualifications: We are seeking consultants with experience working in the private sector at mid‑senior level, either within a top‑tier consultancy or a major industrial company (such as manufacturing, energy, or transport), to deliver structured, commercial, analytical strategy and transformation strategy engagements.

Essential Attributes and Experience:

• Industry Expertise: Experience in the private sector at mid‑senior level, either in a leading consultancy or a major industrial company. Insight into current issues affecting UK and/or European industrial supply chains, including productivity pressures, innovation adoption, decarbonisation, digitalisation/AI, and barriers to scaling new technologies.
• Strategic and Analytical Skills: Proven ability to apply hypothesis‑led analytical approaches to complex industry challenges, including structuring ambiguous problems, conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, and generating clear, actionable recommendations. Skilled in developing market sizing models and integrated three‑statement financial models to test hypotheses, size opportunities, analyse scenarios, and inform data‑driven strategic recommendations.
• Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of market dynamics, regulatory landscapes, commercial and go‑to‑market models, and financing mechanisms that influence competitiveness, investment decisions, and scaling operations.
• Client Engagement and Communication: Ability to translate industry and supply chain insights into compelling, evidence‑based strategic advice for senior stakeholders across private sector clients.
• Personal Attributes: Insightful and creative, with integrity, drive, interpersonal skills, and a genuine affinity for problem solving. Open‑minded and committed to inclusion and diversity of thought and background. Able to work independently as the day‑to‑day client point of contact on assignments.

Qualification such as ACA/CIMA/CFA or equivalent is highly advantageous.

Our roles often involve on‑site working at client locations and often require regular travel to various client sites. In‑office working is further required and encouraged to support team development and integration with our wider growth strategy team and sector specialists.

Benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity‑based initiatives
• Annual performance‑based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations: Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com.

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require UK security clearance. All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard; however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK. We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you’re unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.