Senior Strategy Consultant, Life and Pensions Strategy, Monitor Deloitte

Join our market-leading Life and Pensions strategy consulting team, widely recognised by our clients for original insight and deep sector expertise.

Create impactful strategies: our work is highly varied, advising on some of the most ambitious strategic programmes in the sector, including:

• New product development and market entry analysis
• Customer and adviser strategy
• Commercial analysis and business case construction
• Strategy input to digital transformation or delivery programmes

Work in a growing practice with leading clients: our team has a strong and growing client network across the industry, including the UK’s largest pension providers, wealth managers and insurers.

Learn from world-class experts: As well as being strategy experts, bridging the gap between strategy and execution is at the heart of what we do. We work closely with Deloitte experts in digital, marketing, risk, product, M&A and actuarial, learning from each other and bringing the best of Deloitte to our clients.

Build a brand: Everyone in our team brings unique skills and experience. We take time to help each other develop a domain of expertise, building what we are known for as individuals and in the market.

Connect to your career at Deloitte: Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

Connect to your opportunity: As a Senior Strategy Consultant, you will be delivering strategy work for our clients day-to-day. While no two projects are the same, you will typically be leading a workstream within a larger engagement, managing a small number of analysts or consultants, with oversight and support from a Strategy Manager or senior colleagues as needed. You’ll play a vital hands-on role in designing and executing the strategic analysis required, conducting research and assembling evidence, distilling insights and constructing strategic recommendations.

The nature of the work we do includes:

• Working with clients to understand and define strategic choices ahead of key investment decisions
• Traditional evidence-led analysis to identify market development opportunities to support client strategies
• Determining the optimum business or commercial model to effectively deliver client objectives
• Helping our clients configure effectively and develop their ability to deliver operational excellence in specific areas
• Identifying new ways of working that will stimulate innovation and growth, and lead to better decision-making
• Guiding and supporting clients through imagining, defining and delivering their digital journey to enable competitive advantage

The team: The role sits within the Life and Pensions practice, part of Deloitte's Insurance Strategy Consulting team. You will join and learn from a group of experienced Senior Strategy Consultants and Managers with expertise across customer and adviser strategy, wealth management, financial planning and taking new products to market. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Insurance Strategy community. Beyond the Strategy team, you will build a network with Pensions and Life experts across Deloitte, in digital, marketing, M&A and operations consulting lines.

Development: We offer a structured career path and invest in continuous development and learning, which matter greatly to us. Our growth in recent years has been strong and we have ambitious plans for the future: you will find that there is no lack of opportunity for you to develop your career, wherever you may choose to take it.

As a Senior Strategy Consultant your responsibilities will include:

• Executing rigorous and insightful analysis to build an evidence base to support strategy development and change
• Mastery of strategy tools and frameworks to solve client problems, and sharing best practice within the team
• Independently leading a workstream or small project
• Managing and mentoring junior colleagues to ensure successful project delivery
• Relationship management: working closely with clients and internal stakeholders, developing strong professional relationships and liaising across Deloitte to deliver a seamless client experience
• Proactively developing your own skills, seeking feedback, building knowledge, and sharing your insight with colleagues
• Supporting development of the Insurance Strategy community and team, and supporting business development with clients

Connect to your skills and professional experience: We are looking for individuals who are trained in strategy and want to build a career in financial services consulting.

• Direct experience of strategy consulting within a consulting firm, or a strategy-related qualification (e.g. MBA or equivalent)
• Proven experience of working directly in the Life and Pensions market and a desire to build a career in this area
• A strong understanding of Life and Pensions propositions, product and regulatory landscape
• Good understanding of how to construct and evidence strategic arguments, and creativity in identifying evidence sources
• A strong academic track record
• Flexibility to travel
• Any sector specific qualifications (e.g. courses or relevant certificates)
• Experience in proposition design and delivery
• Experience in marketing or customer strategy

Connect to your business - Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory: In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

Strategy and Business Design: The experts in our teams in Strategy and Business Design are trusted advisors to CEOs and their wider organisations. Whether that’s launching a new arm of a business, anticipating new and emerging risks or collaborating with other teams, we work on a huge range of varied projects.

Personal independence: Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues: “For me it’s the people that make it. They are bright, supportive, interesting; we work brilliantly together as a team. But it’s not just that, the number of opportunities you get working for such a large firm is amazing.” -Jess, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Our hybrid working policy: You’ll be based in Edinburgh or London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you: Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step: A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers.