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Corporate Strategy Team

The Corporate Strategy team works in close partnership with WTW’s CEO and Global Leadership Team (GLT) on setting WTW’s overall corporate strategy and driving WTW’s highest priority initiatives. Examples of these initiatives include:

• Company-wide strategy reviews

• Segment, business, and geography-specific strategy reviews

• Macro opportunities and emerging themes

• Competitor analysis and monitoring

The Team works closely with Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation & Acceleration to help develop and execute the company’s strategic plans through both inorganic and organic growth opportunities.

Your Role on the Team

As a Director on the Strategy team, reporting to the Head of Corporate Strategy, you will lead day to day execution of strategy projects while guiding and developing individual team members. You will play a critical role in accelerating WTW’s growth by developing and delivering these high priority strategic initiatives, aligned with the objectives of WTW.

You will have the opportunity to further build on your proven leadership skills and leverage your interests and experience to drive forward projects, build strong relationships and create value for WTW. You will be working with a high-performing team, including other former strategy consultants, and you will work collaboratively on challenging projects, with cross-function teams from many backgrounds and disciplines. You will work closely with others but also autonomously with little direction. Your excellent analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills and strong interpersonal and communication skills will ensure successful delivery of projects and individual team member performance.

Primary Activities

• Lead day to day execution of strategy projects; scoping the project, developing project plan, driving research, analyzing data sources, drawing insights and conclusions and planning for implementation

• Lead or contribute to initiatives across all areas of the company, working effectively with diverse teams:

• Segments and businesses (e.g., Corporate insurance broking, Retirement and pensions, Investments, Health and employee benefits, etc.)

• Geographies (North America, Europe and International)

• Functions (Operations & Technology, Finance, Legal, HR, Marketing and Communications)

• Generate financial analysis related to strategic initiatives, competitor performance analysis, and business cases

• Organize and drive market research and analyses

• Gather qualitative data and input through interviewing subject matter experts and conducting workshops

• Synthesize complex information into clear takeaways and recommendations using both quantitative and qualitative methods

• Communicate effectively and clearly with many all audiences, including senior company executives

People

• Act as liaison between senior leadership teams, corporate functions and external consultants

• Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on teams across all segments, geographies, and functions

• Work directly with WTW senior leaders

• Hiring, managing and developing talent

Excellence

• Develop technical knowledge and skills in the areas of strategy, (e.g., research, project management, business case financial modelling, corporate strategy)

• Develop understanding of the key markets and segments in which WTW operates

• Deliver on projects to meet or exceed internal client expectations

• Support innovation in the corporate strategy team

• Bachelor’s degree at a 2:1 or higher

• Solid experience of corporate strategy / consulting experience at a top tier consulting firm or an MBA from a top institution and exposure of corporate strategy / consulting experience

• Background in consulting, strategy, corporate development, financial analysis, or strategic planning is strongly preferred

• Proven record of high performance in your past positions

• Self-starter who can thrive in a fast-paced, evolving business environment

• Comfortable with ambiguous situations

• Ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis

• Excellent business and financial analysis skills, including the ability to analyze data trends, draw conclusions and develop clear recommendations and action plans

• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and presentation skills

• Strong organizational skills; able to work and think in a methodical and orderly way

• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint

• Demonstrable interest in Finance, Economics, Strategy or Business Administration

• Availability to travel internationally once a quarter

• Flexibility on working hours – global nature of the work means there may be early morning or evening calls

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.