Management Consulting, Associate Director

The Management Consulting Team at Teneo focuses on answering key strategic questions for business and public-sector leaders through our mix of senior experience and rigorous analysis, combined with the unique expertise that exists across Teneo. We operate across a diverse array of sectors including Consumer Goods, Healthcare, Leisure & Hospitality, Software, Transport, and TMT, amongst others. Within these markets, we provide strategic, operational, and due diligence support, advising reputable FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 firms, key public-sector organisations, and leading private equity houses.

As an Associate Director you’ll be a key member of our senior team in Management Consulting. Your focus will be on delighting clients through delivering great work, while growing and developing our team. With the support of our Managing Directors, you will also establish and nurture client relationships and build out new business opportunities. You will be an ambitious and results-focussed individual, who relishes a challenge and has the ability to make a real and lasting impact on our client’s organisations and their most critical business problems. In this role you will specialise in leading operational strategy work, including target operating model design, organisational separation & integration, process optimisation, and performance improvement engagements. You will bring experience and expertise in helping clients deliver complex, high-visibility programmes, working across multi-functional teams of both internal consultants and client stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Structure and lead complex projects, working directly with a Managing Director.
• Demonstrate a strong consulting skill set, with the ability to lead complex analytical programs, drive towards bespoke insights for clients, and structure written output.
• Develop the “answer” from initial hypothesis through refinement and validation with senior colleagues and clients.
• Proven ability managing case teams on a day-to-day basis, including delegating and planning workload, and providing coaching and development support to junior colleagues.
• Build consensus and momentum toward critical outcomes for our clients, with the intelligent use of data and analysis to support and progress our thinking.
• Support Managing Directors in all aspects of Business Development, including identifying and building out opportunities with existing clients, developing thought leadership, drafting proposals, and attending pitches.
• Able to handle day-to-day liaison with senior clients, empathizing with their issues and escalating concerns where appropriate to Directors/Managing Directors.
• Able to build lasting relationships with clients beyond the scope of a specific project engagement.
• Leads presentations confidently and engagingly, effectively presenting our output to the client.

Key Skills & Experience

• 8+ years’ relevant work experience ideally within a Strategy or Management Consulting environment, including a track record of leading major strategic programmes of work.
• Excellent analytical skills, and an entrepreneurial attitude.
• Excellent communication skills and creativity.
• Highly logical and numerate.
• Evidence of teamwork, leadership, and ambition, alongside relevant work experience.
• Degree Qualified (2.1 or above preferred) in any degree discipline.
• Operates at a fast pace, demonstrating the ability to influence and challenge when needed.
• Creates an immediate, positive, and credible impression on others.
• Ensures all reports, data and written work are correct in detail and without error.
• Can skillfully and confidently influence and negotiate, and maintains a positive relationship with all parties during difficult conversations.
• Proactively takes on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks.
• Working knowledge of a major European language is an advantage but not required.

What can we offer you?

• New joiners are supported by an induction programme, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this.
• We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression.
• We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support.
• Six-monthly promotion opportunities mean high performers can rapidly rise through the firm.
• Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects.

Company Benefits

• Challenging and Diverse Projects – Work on high-impact projects that drive real change for leading organizations across multiple sectors.
• Career Growth and Learning – Build your career alongside experienced professionals that will support your growth complemented by structured training programs.
• International Exposure – Gain exposure to global business challenges with opportunities to work on international projects across the region and across our offices.
• An Entrepreneurial Environment – Help build and shape the culture and ways of work in a fast-growing company, office, and team.
• Competitive Compensation – Benefit from a highly competitive compensation package, with opportunities for performance-based bonuses and additional benefits.

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. Working exclusively with the CEOs and senior executives of the world’s leading companies, Teneo provides strategic counsel across their full range of key objectives and issues. Teneo’s unique approach of integrating the disciplines of strategic communications, management consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and people advisory, as well as our global network of senior experts, enables us to address the most complex business challenges facing senior executives in a holistic way. The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world. Teneo’s Management Consulting division advises executive-level clients on strategic topics across a range of issues central to the success of their business. Our clients include a significant number of major global corporations across a diverse array of sectors and leading government and public sector entities. Consultants will gain broad exposure to different industries as well as project types and have the opportunity to contribute to the team outside of normal casework.