Manager - Retail, Leisure & Travel

OC&C Strategy Consultants is an international boutique strategy consulting firm with 14 offices worldwide. Our expertise is focused on a few core specialisms, allowing us to deliver results that get noticed.

Our people are agile thinkers, cut from different cloths but united by a relentless curiosity and desire to solve problems.

To us, each client challenge is unique, so boilerplate solutions don’t cut it. We interrogate a problem until we find its root. Then we develop a powerful way to solve it. We don’t duck the difficult answers, we give clients the strategies they need

We have the pre-eminent strategy consulting team in Retail, Leisure & Tourism (RLT), growing rapidly and winning with our distinctive points of view on key topics. We work with leading RLT players both in the UK and abroad on the most important strategy questions they face. Our team regularly collaborates internationally and works closely with our analytics team for our corporate, investor and financing clients.

Responsibilities:

• Direct, manage the analysis, design, proposal, implementation and ongoing delivery of consulting projects, ensuring customer satisfaction and customer results
• Lead OC&C project teams (typically 3-6 people on a project), including assisting team members to develop consulting skills
• Assist in client pitches and help with developing client relationships
• Rapidly gain acceptance within the company and clients as a very strong, professional manager who can provide clear thought leadership
• Translate strategy and business needs into deliverable designs
• Support sector team efforts to reinforce OC&C's position as leaders in strategy consultancy in our chosen areas

Experience &

Qualifications:

• 4+ years' experience gained within an external strategy consultancy
• Excellent leadership capabilities and experience managing teams of 3+
• Experience with in RLT and/or closely related sectors
• Structured, hypothesis-driven problem solver with strong analytical rigour and a track record delivering commercial due diligence, transaction support, and Retail, Leisure or Travel strategy projects
• Pragmatic, delivery-focused communicator with high professional integrity, strong organisational skills, and the credibility to influence senior clients and colleagues in a collaborative, inclusive manner
• Strong academics and an outstanding track record of achieving and exceeding objectives

At OC&C we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture in which people of all backgrounds can thrive. We encourage applications from all, regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, transgender status, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, and socioeconomic background. We also have a number of staff network groups which actively support the inclusion of all of our colleagues in the firm.

OC&C is a global strategy consulting firm with 14 offices around the world. We work for senior executives, providing solutions to some of the most exciting strategic problems in consulting today. We work in all industries, specialising in Retail, Consumer Goods, Media, B2B and B2C Services, Technology and Private Equity.