Assistant Manager - Deals Strategy Practice - IIM/XLRI/FMS

About Deals Strategy :

Our Client's Deals Strategy practice combines expertise from the firm's leading Strategy and Deals practices to give the business a clear deal advantage.

Deals Strategy serves two primary client sets :

Private Equity Funds - services include :

- Industry / market assessment

- Outside-in / limited commercial due diligence

- Full scope commercial due diligence

- Portfolio company performance enhancement

Corporate Clients - services include :

- Industry / market assessment studies

- Feasibility studies

- Target search / screening

- Growth strategy - organic / inorganic

- Business plan development / validation

- Joint venture / partnering strategy

- Commercial due diligence

- Synergy assessment

- Deals Strategy is a highly industry vertical-aligned strategy practice, comprising strategists who bring both execution pace and sector depth to pure-play strategy engagements that are typically less than 2 months in duration.

- Deals Strategy has embarked on an ambitious growth plan in India, and they are keen to hire strategists in their team.

About the Role :

Designation : Assistant Manager - Deals Strategy

Desired Experience :

- 3-5 years of management consulting experience with a research / consulting firm

- Specific consulting / industry experience

- Experience in Deals will be a definite advantage

- Should have worked on transformation projects (end to end)

- Worked on Commercial Due Diligence

- Experience in Strategic Consulting/ Market Investment projects end to end

Desired Educational Background : MBA from a Tier 1 institute

Role Description :

- Anchor engagement work streams independently

- Guide and develop junior team members in preparing analysis plans (for example, hypothesis / issue trees), conducting research and preparing findings

- Take ownership of key strategic and financial analyses such as market sizing, competitive benchmarking, business plan testing, financial modeling, deal risk / upside analysis, strategy development

- Lead client discussions in association with other engagement team members

- Lead proposal creation efforts

Candidate requirements :

- Very strong analytical skills and structured problem solving abilities

- Impeccable oral and written communication skills

- Keen and equal interest in strategy and finance

- Willingness and ability to frequently work under tight timelines and pressure

- Limited travel will be expected for fieldwork

- Ability to work well in teams (often cross-functional) with a diverse set of colleagues

Meenakshi Bhargava