Consumer Industry Strategist - Senior Manager

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Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level. 

Join us as a Consumer Industry Strategist and become the strategic architect driving transformational growth across our Consumer Industry practice. In this pivotal Senior Manager role, you'll partner with our Industry Leader to shape and execute an ambitious industry strategy that delivers significant market impact. This is your opportunity to influence strategy at the highest level, lead high-impact initiatives, and build meaningful relationships across our African firm and global network—all whilst working alongside our most valued clients.

What makes this role exceptional:

• Strategic Leadership: Own the development, implementation, and evolution of our Consumer Industry strategy, positioning yourself as a trusted strategic advisor to our industry community.
• Operational Excellence: Drive industry performance and portfolio management through rigorous project oversight and governance, ensuring strategic initiatives translate into tangible business results.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work seamlessly across Service Lines and regions to operationalise our growth strategy, building a powerful network of stakeholders both internally and globally.
• Executive Project Ownership: Exercise authority on behalf of the Industry Leader to oversee and deliver transformational strategic projects that shape our market position.
• Strategic Programme Management: Orchestrate multiple concurrent projects and initiatives, providing incisive strategic and analytical insights to industry, sector, service line, and client account leaders.
• Governance & Operations: Manage PMO activities including industry governance, stakeholder communications, leadership forums, and comprehensive local and global reporting.
• Financial Stewardship: Lead financial strategy and oversight of industry budgets and revenues, developing ambitious yet achievable targets, monitoring performance, and directing resources towards high-impact client and market engagements.
• Stakeholder Relationship Building: Cultivate a robust network of influential relationships across Deloitte—spanning service lines, client accounts, sectors, and business support functions—to amplify industry impact.
• Strategic Communications: Craft compelling strategic priorities, agendas, briefings, and materials for senior leadership meetings and marquee client events.
• Thought Leadership & Marketing: Champion the development of industry-leading thought leadership and guide marketing strategy implementation, articulating our distinctive industry focus to drive market visibility and client engagement.
• Market Positioning: Build and nurture a network of key internal and external stakeholders to drive innovative marketing initiatives and strengthen our competitive advantage.
• Client & Industry Delivery: Execute priority projects that directly advance our Clients & Industries strategic objectives.

Bachelors degree

Desired Qualification

Post Graduate Qualification (within relevant Service area)

Minimum Experience

5 years’ working experience within a relevant sales support function or relevant industry experience.

Desired Experience

3 years at Manager level within a professional service firm.

Technical Competencies

• Technical expert in specific functional area
• Demonstrated capability in interaction at all levels, briefing, analysis and project management skills
• Experience in drafting and delivering presentations
• Good report writing skills
• Sound financial knowledge and understanding

Behavioural Competencies

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Good interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Problem solving ability
• Good business acumen

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive.  Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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