Corporate Strategy Engagement Lead and Engagement Director

The posting, as Alpha Financial Markets Consulting wrote it

Corporate & Growth Strategy
Grade: Engagement Lead & Engagement Director
Location: New York (US)

About Alpha FMC
Alpha FMC is a leading global consulting firm focused exclusively on serving clients in the Financial Services sector. Our 1,500+ consultants work across 19 offices globally, combining deep FS sector expertise with high-quality consulting to support more than 970 clients across asset management, wealth management, insurance and broader financial services.
Our Strategy & Deals division advises the leadership teams of leading financial institutions and high-growth businesses on their most important strategic decisions.
We are continuing to grow our Corporate Strategy practice and are recruiting experienced strategy consultants at Engagement Lead and Engagement Director level.

The opportunity
This is a senior corporate strategy role, combining complex problem-solving, engagement leadership, and practice-building.
Our work spans corporate and business-unit strategy, growth strategy and market entry, value creation, and strategic operating model and cost questions for both corporate and sponsor-backed clients. Engagements require teams to structure complex problems into clear hypotheses and develop the market, customer, competitor, financial and operational evidence to validate them.
Alpha is a specialist consulting firm and Corporate Strategy is a priority growth area within our Strategy & Deals division. You will have scope to help build the practice by developing client relationships, establishing areas of market focus, shaping propositions, and building the team, with increasing responsibility at the Engagement Director level.
You will also work closely with colleagues across Alpha's wider consulting business, combining strategy consulting capability with deep sector and functional expertise to bring clients integrated teams and distinctive advice.

Our work
We help leading financial institutions and sponsor-backed businesses make their most important strategic decisions. Our work spans financial services, with a primary focus on asset management, wealth management, insurance and fintech.
Engagements we typically lead include:

• Developing corporate, business-unit and growth strategies for established financial institutions and scaling businesses
• Assessing new markets, customer segments, products and distribution opportunities, and shaping market entry and expansion plans
• Reviewing propositions, commercial models and competitive positioning
• Evaluating inorganic and partnership routes to growth, including where they are a better answer than building organically
• Addressing strategic operating model and organisational questions
• Supporting sponsor-backed businesses with value creation strategy, including growth, pricing, commercial effectiveness, cost reduction, operating model and other post-close strategic priorities
• Translating strategy into clear priorities, investment cases and plans that management teams can act on

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build a growing Corporate Strategy business

• A collaborative working style, and an interest in drawing on capabilities from across a wider consulting platform
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

For Engagement Director candidates, we additionally expect evidence of developing senior client relationships, contributing to winning new work and helping to build teams, propositions or consulting capabilities, alongside the appetite to take greater ownership of origination and practice growth.

What Alpha offers

• Genuine C-suite corporate and growth strategy work on some of the most important questions facing leading financial institutions
• A focused remit: corporate and growth strategy is the whole of the role, with the depth of expertise that specialisation brings
• The opportunity to help build a fast-growing Corporate Strategy practice, rather than occupy a role within an established one
• Support to develop your own client relationships and areas of market focus, drawing on senior sponsorship, Alpha’s existing client base and collaboration across the wider firm
• The reach and client base of a global firm combined with the accessibility and entrepreneurialism of a specialist consultancy
• The ability to work on projects for clients across Europe and North America
• A highly collaborative environment with direct access to senior colleagues and clients, supported by training, coaching and mentorship
• A clear path for career progression as the Corporate Strategy practice continues to grow
• Competitive remuneration, benefits and annual profit-sharing

There are a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to - skill sets, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. The base salary range for this position is: $230,000 to $330,000 and is subject to change based on salary benchmarking. In addition to this salary, employees would be eligible for both variable and non-variable benefits.