Strategy Associate

Opportunity

Corporate development and strategic bets

• Assess potential expansion markets, including sizing, competitors, regulation, entry models, and recommendations.
• Assess investment, partnership, or acquisition targets through meetings, research, commercial cases, fit analysis, and risk evaluation.
• Coordinate deal execution and due diligence across finance, legal, product, and operations.
• Support post-acquisition integration by tracking milestones and coordinating work across teams.
• Help define strategic bets, including new routes to market and platform rollout.
• Build business cases and track progress against OKRs.

Cross-functional project management

• Project-manage critical strategic workstreams with leaders across product, go-to-market, delivery, finance, and other functions.
• Set clear owners, milestones, and timelines, and keep work moving proactively.
• Surface blockers early and involve the CEO Office when it adds value.
• Support scaling changes, including new ways of working and launches of products and markets.

About you

• 3 to 5 years at a leading strategy consultancy, ideally with exposure to growth, market entry, or corporate development.
• Candidates from venture capital, private equity, investment banking, or high-growth operating roles will also be considered.
• Very AI literate, using AI tools across work and beyond a chatbot.
• Entrepreneurial and creative problem-solver, comfortable taking on multiple responsibilities and executing in a startup.
• Highly commercial, strategic, and rigorous in analysis; work must be accurate, clear, and able to withstand challenge.
• Exceptionally organized and trusted to track work reliably.
• Genuine interest in workforce transformation, startups, and organizational change.

Benefits

• 27 days of holiday, five additional days off, and eight bank holidays per year.
• Private medical insurance, medical cashback scheme, life insurance, gym membership, wellness resources, and mental health support.

Workplace

• Hybrid work offering: most roles collaborate in the office three days per week; Coaches and Instructors collaborate in the office once a month.