Principal - Digital

Strategy& is a global strategy consulting business uniquely positioned to help deliver your best future: one that is built on differentiation from the inside out and tailored exactly to you. As part of PwC, every day we’re building the winning systems that are at the heart of growth. We combine our powerful foresight with this tangible know-how, technology, and scale to help you create a better, more transformative strategy from day one. As the only at-scale strategy business that’s part of a global professional services network, we embed our strategy capabilities with frontline teams across PwC to show you where you need to go, the choices you’ll need to make to get there, and how to get it right. The result is an authentic strategy process powerful enough to capture possibility, while pragmatic enough to ensure effective delivery. It’s the strategy that gets an organization through the changes of today and drives results that redefine tomorrow. It’s the strategy that turns vision into reality. It’s strategy, made real. Principals play a significant role in growing the strategy consulting business. Principals are expected to manage senior client relationships, lead projects and demonstrate content expertise in one or more of the relevant sectors. Eventually, the successful candidate will be expected to generate their own leads, while leveraging the firm’s existing relationships. A Principal should be comfortable at: serving as a comprehensive Senior Project Manager by planning, organizing and driving project execution, while also guiding and directing junior team members strengthening existing client relationships by ensuring dedicated senior coverage, teaming up with stakeholders when setting the client agenda, providing counsel on where Strategy& can create value and leading delivery teams providing thought leadership and creative insights to help identify, clarify and resolve complex issues critical to clients’ strategic success developing key hypotheses and insights, defining and managing all data-collection initiatives, analyzing the resulting data, meeting with clients to establish requirements and ensuring assignment progress leading multiple project components, translating findings into recommendations and solutions and ensuring integration of project components against project goals growing the Middle East business by marketing and selling work, leveraging personal contacts as well as the firm’s existing relationships contributing to building a practice by attracting, retaining, developing and motivating a team of highly qualified staff. A Principal will typically have: a minimum of ten years of postgraduate work experience, with a minimum of five years’ experience in a strategy consulting environment experience in strategy development a deep background and strong credibility within a relevant industry, either through consulting or client-side expertise experience in managing client relationships at senior levels and a proven ability to build client relationships strong project management skills with a focus on driving complex projects and managing project/client teams a track record demonstrating sustained progression and consistency in employment functional experience within the relevant industry excellent collaboration, interpersonal communication (verbal and written) and selling skills; a natural team player with cultural versatility and a good “cultural fit” strong leadership and proven ability to make an impact in a growing organization; a self-starter, assertive, with a high degree of self-confidence, maturity and executive presence the ability to inspire others and help them succeed.