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Deloitte Delivers More.

Deloitte has the broadest and deepest range of skills of any professional services firm. Our goal is straightforward: To be recognised as the pre-eminent and most trusted professional services firm, famous for the calibre of our people and respected for the exceptional quality of our work. We are making great strides in this endeavour, recently being voted in the UK’s Top 10 Best Big Companies To Work For in the Sunday Times.

Our Consulting practice’s broad spectrum of service offerings enables us to provide high value business advice on a range of issues, from strategy to implementation., Deep industry expertise in a number of key market segments in both the private and public sectors ensures that our advice is tailored to our client’s needs. We provide consultancy services to some the strongest brand names globally, plus a variety of small and dynamic mid-market firms. Our objective is to assist our clients to solve problems

Our Strategy competency works side by side with our clients’ top management to clarify issues, refine ideas, and solve problems in order to maximise shareholder and customer value. Our perspective is broad – we use our expertise to investigate and analyse markets; trends; competitors; customers and the organisation itself in order to deliver practical and visionary solutions. Unlike many other strategy consultancies we don’t leave it there – we are valued by our clients for our ability to see the vision through to reality, producing a plan and approach to successfully bring our client’s strategy to life.

For these reasons and many more Strategy is key to Deloitte’s business offering.

Typical engagements within Strategy would include:

Comprehensive Business Review: full “drains up” review of a business, determining strategic implications and options
Business Model Transformation: structure organisations to focus their cost base around capabilities; explore industry-wide economic impact of changing business models
Strategy Alignment & Execution: manage strategic focus continuity through large transformation programmes; translate high-level corporate vision & strategy into executable actions
Revenue Enhancement: design organic growth strategies (customer, channels & pricing strategies); manage complex businesses, global product ranges & international customers
Policy Development & Evaluation: advise government & business at the interface of public & private sectors; leverage stakeholder management & consultation techniques; policy evaluation and option appraisal
Portfolio Strategy: review corporate business unit portfolios; transaction-related strategic support; inorganic market entry and/or exit
New Business Launch: support clients in design build and launch of new businesses from ‘end-to-end”; bring to bear the whole of Deloitte to solve the client’s business launch needs

Core consulting skills expected include:

Analysis and Insight: Excellent knowledge of strategic tools and techniques; Can apply tools expertly; Draws insightful conclusions from analysis
Communications: Presents team work convincingly; Structures entire documents in context of engagement
Client relationship management: Builds trust of senior clients in Industry; Begins to develop personal, non-project relationships with clients;
Sales Management: Cultivates and closes follow-on opportunities at existing clients; Supports new opportunities with senior team
Engagement management: Manages project on-time and budget
People: Manages team on projects; Gives formal developmental feedback; Handles difficult situations well
Team Player: Encourages and motivates team; Sets an example to team
Firm development: Leads specific firm activities; Ensures contribution to Knowledge Management

Core skills:
?         Significant previous experience in strategic advisory projects
?         Incisive thinker, confident with concepts, analysis and frameworks
?         Highly intelligent with outstanding numerate skills
?         Team players with an enthusiastic, positive, ‘can do’ attitude
?         High integrity and a professional approach
?         Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with notable presence
?         Eager to learn new skills
?         Passionate about doing a good job for the Client
?         Confident, natural, passionate
?         Ability to structure, manage and deliver change
?         Strong presentation skills and executive presence

Industry specific required skills:
?         At least 7 years of experience in the THL sector
?         Broad knowledge of the THL market and deep knowledge of at least one sector or sub-sector of the THL marketplace
?         Thorough understanding of the forces and trends affecting the THL industries -around the globe - combined with an ability to articulate these trends
?         Understanding of key operational and technology considerations impacting the THL market
?         Ability articulate where and how Deloitte can assist clients in the THL space through an understanding or appreciation of the services we can offer
?         An established network of mid to senior management contacts in the THL sector
?         The ideal candidate will likely have previous, industry relevant consulting or financial advisory experience, or have held a strategic planning or business development position in a leading THL company

Additional preferred skills:
?         Second language other than English

Other pre-requisites
?         Full travel mobility
?         Right to live and work in the UK
?         Compelling list of THL companies on client list or track record of career success with an established and reputable THL industry player
?         Minimum 2.1 degree from reputable university