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Industry/Sector

TMT X-Sector

Specialism

Corporate and Business Strategy

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in strategy consulting focus on providing strategic guidance and insights to organisations. They analyse market trends, assess business performance, and develop recommendations to help clients achieve their goals. These individuals work closely with clients to identify opportunities for growth, optimise operations, and enhance overall business performance.
As a corporate and business strategy consultant at PwC, you will analyse client needs, provide consulting services across different strategic areas, and offer guidance and support to help clients develop and implement effective strategies that align with their business objectives and drive growth.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

The Opportunity

As a Manager in Enterprise Functional Strategy, you will be responsible for defining and scaling AI-led operating models, designing agentic workflows, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable value to clients. This role requires a blend of strategy thinking, functional expertise, and hands-on AI solutioning experience, with a focus on product management and agentic deployment.

Responsibilities

- Lead the creation and implementation of strategic business solutions

- Supervise, develop, and coach teams to achieve exceptional deliverables

- Manage client service accounts and engagement workstreams

- Define scaled AI-led operating models, including roles, workflows, governance, and support structures

- Design AI-enabled processes and agent workflows to reduce cycle time, improve output quality, and deliver measurable business value

- Use domain knowledge to establish AI strategy, quality standards, governance, and integration requirements

- Direct teams to operationalize agents, confirming data completeness and quality for agent development

- Develop AI quality frameworks, evaluation metrics, and guardrails for AI systems

- Provide continuous monitoring and agent performance management aligned to business KPIs

- Advise executives and functional leads on AI transformation opportunities and risks

- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver roadmaps, POCs, and adoption plans that increase value

- Translate strategy into prototyping and implementation, meeting with other PwC teams to enable outcomes

What You Must Have

- Bachelor's Degree

- At least 5 years of experience

What Sets You Apart

- Master's Degree in Accounting & Finance, Business Administration/Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Economics and Finance & Technology, Economics and Finance, Finance & Technology, Finance, Financial Mathematics preferred

- Broad knowledge in corporate strategy

- Demonstrating functional experience in deploying agents within Finance and/or HR domains

- Possessing product management and agentic deployment experience

- Possessing Hands-on experience with building custom GPTs, Langflow, or similar AI tools

- Proven communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional leadership capabilities

- Demonstrating the ability to help clients strategize and operationalize agents, translating strategy into prototyping and implementation

- Showing a creative and agile approach to identifying alternate routes for agentic-AI opportunities

- Proven experience in rapid solutioning to demonstrate value to clients

Travel Requirements

Up to 60%

Job Posting End Date

The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $232,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glanceAs PwC is anequal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-workFor only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.