Associate Director - Strategy - Consulting Firm

Location - Gurgaon

This role will be reporting to Head of Solutions & Strategy based out of Gurgaon office of . The function is responsible for strategy execution, development of solutions (accelerators, IPs) for specific use-cases based on clients / prospective problem statements, proprietary thought-leadership forbusiness development (playbooks) and responding to RFPs with specific scope of work (SoW).

Additionally, practice management for various BUs is aligned with this function to make sure strategic agenda for BUs, Go-to-market strategy, topics for investing in knowledge development are intact with the firm priorities

Primary skills

- Exceptional problem-solving skills

- Outstanding written & oral communication, presentation storyboarding skills

- Fact-based analysis of the market and other situations

- Stakeholder management including C-suite and VPs in the verticals and horizontals

- Program management for response and bids

- Desired behaviors from the successful candidates

- Can deal with ambiguous situations effectively and bring consensus

- Can articulate working team's thinking clearly in the draft documents

- Is agile and iterates fast

- Is proactive and self-starter

- Is collaborative and a team player

Desired experience:

- Post-MBA experience in consulting preferably strategy & operations, performance improvement functions; strategy function of corporates

- Total experience to be in the range of 8- 14 years