Manager, Strategy & Value Creation

Position: Manager, Strategy & Value Creation )
Location:

Toronto

Other locations:
Primary Location Only

Date:
Oct 15, 2026

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The opportunity
Strategy & Value Creation is EY’s executive strategy practice. The EY-Parthenon brand is the home of our fast-growing global strategy capability. We advise corporate and private equity clients on strategic and on strategic, commercial, operational, and investment-related decisions that drive long-term value creation. Areas of our work include:

Corporate and BU strategy

Strategy assessment

Market entry strategy and opportunity sizing

Product and business unit strategy development

Divestment options analysis

Purpose-led strategy and long-term value

Digital & AI strategy and innovation

Strategic cost evaluation

Turnaround, operational restructuring and rapid performance improvement

Capital allocation and investment strategy

You'll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of global and local corporate, government, and private equity clients. You'll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement. The Canadian Practice is closely integrated with the Americas EY Parthenon organization. We bring the power of our deep global and local insights, client relationships and an informed, current perspective.

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within our organization.

Your key responsibilities
We are looking for a candidate to join as a Manager within the Canadian Strategy & Value Creation team. The Manager will play an integral role that involves working closely with other members of the rapidly growing Americas Strategy & Value Creation team to deliver a variety of engagements.

We are looking for candidates who can:

Structure engagements around hypotheses, and develop and execute project plan to validate hypotheses

Assess growth opportunities, competitive positioning, market dynamics, and other strategic topics through rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis or market, transactional and operational data

Analyze industry trends and disruptions, customer behavior, and emerging market opportunities to identify strategic implications for clients

Support commercial and investment due diligence engagements through market assessments, competitive analysis, and financial evaluation

Develop strategic recommendations related to business growth, operating model transformation, product innovation, distribution effectiveness, and value creation

Translate recommendations into measurable improvements with explicit links to business outcomes

Build trusted advisor relationships with senior client executives and deliver engagements to high client satisfaction

Lead and motivate engagement teams in executing engagements

Coach, train and mentor junior team members with diverse skills and backgrounds

Foster an inclusive culture throughout the team and within engagements and proactively build a personal network within the firm

Support internal practice initiatives such as Learning, Operations, Resourcing, Recruitment

Integrate AI into day-to-day delivery while validating outputs, challenging assumptions, and maintaining accountability for quality

Effectively and responsibly use AI to accelerate analysis, scenario generation, and insight development while maintaining clear linkage to business outcomes

Ideal qualifications for this position include:

Engineering, Finance or Commerce undergrad (MA/MBA is an asset)

At least 5 years of work/leadership experience with demonstrated impact ideally in management consulting or corporate strategy roles, or in private equity or institutional investing roles

Experience developing and evaluating corporate, investment, portfolio, or growth strategies

Experience developing and assessing growth opportunities, market attractiveness, operational business performance improvement and value creation initiatives

Exceptional problem-solving skills - analytical, quantitative and conceptual

Strong understanding of financial and operational drivers of performance including the ability to explain how operational improvements affect financial statements

Strong aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis; advanced modelling skills (Excel) and visualization skills (PowerPoint,…