Corporate Strategy Engagement Lead and Engagement Director

The role

This senior role involves leading complex corporate and growth strategy engagements for financial institutions. You will solve strategic problems, lead consulting teams, and help build the Corporate Strategy practice.

What you will do

• Lead corporate strategy engagements end to end from problem definition to senior client communication
• Structure ambiguous strategic questions into clear hypotheses and workplans
• Direct market, customer, competitor, financial and operational analysis
• Own the storyline and quality of client deliverables
• Integrate data-driven and AI-supported analytics
• Manage engagement economics, resourcing, timelines and delivery risk
• Act as a trusted adviser to client leadership teams
• Build and deepen senior client relationships across financial services
• Lead and contribute to proposals, pitches and business development activity
• Lead, develop and coach high-performing consulting teams

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in corporate strategy consulting
• A track record of leading strategy engagements end-to-end
• Financial Services experience
• Excellent analytical skills
• Credibility and confidence to advise senior executives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate and develop consulting teams
• Commercial appetite and interest in building client relationships and originating new work
• An entrepreneurial mindset
• A collaborative working style
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Experience gained within a leading strategy consultancy or the strategy practice of a wider firm
• Experience across asset management, wealth management, insurance, banking or adjacent sectors
• For Engagement Director candidates: evidence of developing senior client relationships, contributing to winning new work and helping to build teams, propositions or consulting capabilities

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Benefits
• Annual profit-sharing
• Opportunity to help build a fast-growing Corporate Strategy practice
• Support to develop client relationships and market focus
• Access to training, coaching and mentorship
• Clear path for career progression

About the company

Alpha FMC is a leading global consulting firm focused exclusively on serving clients in the Financial Services sector. Its 1,500+ consultants work across 19 offices globally.