Corporate Growth and Strategy Engagement Lead and Engagement Director

Corporate & Growth Strategy Grade: Engagement Lead & Engagement Director Location: London (UK) 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 Key responsibilities Both Engagement Leads and Engagement Directors are expected to lead complex strategy engagements independently. Engagement Directors additionally own senior client relationships and take increasing responsibility for originating work and building the practice. Engagements • Lead corporate strategy engagements end to end, from problem definition through analysis and recommendation to senior client communication • Structure ambiguous strategic questions into clear hypotheses, workplans and analytical approaches • Direct the market, customer, competitor, financial and operational analysis needed to answer them, drawing on both primary and secondary research • Exercise judgement in moving from evidence to clear strategic choices and practical recommendations, rather than simply presenting findings • Own the storyline and quality of client deliverables, ensuring recommendations are analytically rigorous, commercially grounded and clearly communicated • Integrate