Overview
In this Associate Director role, you will lead high-impact life and pensions strategy engagements for insurers, pension providers, and wealth firms. You’ll translate ambiguous C-suite challenges into structured problems and deliver Board-ready recommendations, shaping engagement direction in real time. You’ll work across Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory to drive end-to-end transformation and client value, balancing rigour with pragmatic execution. This is an opportunity to influence strategic outcomes at scale within a sector-specialist practice that combines strategy, delivery, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll partner with senior clients, contribute to business development,和
Pay / Benefits
- hybrid working policy
- world-class development
- inclusive culture and wellbeing commitment
Responsibilities
- Own delivery of engagements or critical workstreams end-to-end from framing to recommendations
- Set hypotheses, steer analyses, and adjust direction as insights emerge
- Lead teams, coaching to produce high-quality, insight-led outputs
- Be the trusted voice with senior stakeholders through clear storytelling
- Drive quality by ensuring outputs are sharp, commercial, and decision-ready
- Contribute to origination, proposals, and thought leadership to grow client relationships
- Strengthen the practice by developing people, capabilities, and an inclusive team culture
- Stay ahead with point-of-view on market trends, regulatory change, AI-enabled disruption, and opportunities in Life & Pensions
Key requirements
- Proven strategy consulting experience in financial services or equivalent
- Direct experience leading teams through complex engagements and delivering strategic initiatives
- Ability to construct and evidence strategic arguments with diverse evidence sources
- Deep sector understanding in pensions, savings, wealth, or life insurance
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent
- Ability to work independently and be a self-starter
- Excellent written and verbal communication with strong judgment for senior stakeholders
- Strong time management across client service, practice development, and business development
- Experience in a professional services client-driven environment
- strong communication and stakeholder management
- judgement and structured storytelling
- leadership and coaching
- strategic analysis
- business case construction and modelling
- transformation programme design and delivery
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