FAQs

Within the UK, our team is based out of our office at London Bridge. You will have the option to work remotely / from other PwC UK offices where possible, including the option to work internationally via the PwC International Remote Working policy. You will also have to work at client sites at times, including in the UK or internationally.

In the UK, we organise ourselves into two market-winning teams – Corporate Strategy and Deals Strategy

• Our Corporate Strategy team works with leading corporate clients, governments, and investors to create custom business strategies that address complex challenges faced by business leaders (market entry, growth strategy, target operating model and more). We work across all industry sectors where no two problems are the same – variety is at the core of what we do. Our pragmatic solutions focus on helping clients to build the key capabilities for success, taking them from strategy through to execution. For you this means:

  • Often working closely with the client – at their offices in the UK or internationally, or virtually in a post-covid world

  • Varying project length – Projects can last anywhere between a few weeks through to a few months

• Our Deals Strategy team helps private equity firms, investment funds and leading corporate clients to make their toughest decisions. Our work includes transaction-related work (e.g. commercial due diligence, synergy assessment, pre- and post-deal value creation) as well as wider strategy development (e.g. growth strategy, sustainability strategy, market entry, initiative prioritisation and more). Transaction-related work tends to make up about 2/3rds of our projects. In all of these cases we provide a detailed evaluation of the target or our client’s proposition and market need, and help identify opportunities or constraints to be addressed. For you this means:

  • Primarily working from London – Opportunities to visit client offices for site visits and meetings, but the majority of the teams’ time is spent in our London office (with flexibility to work from home)

  • Generally shorter projects – Our projects are typically three to six weeks long

Associates are expected to join as generalists. You may be, however, placed within a ‘home’ practice for pastoral care and visibility over pipelines and events. We encourage and provide plenty of opportunities for our consultants, particularly at more junior levels, to work across sectors to develop a varied and broad experience. Consultants will then have the opportunity to specialise in a particular sector of their choice at more senior levels.

Yes, there are ESG teams within both Strategy& teams, quickly growing in both numbers and revenue. Increasingly, ESG is a priority focus for C-suite agendas. Our teams also work closely with ESG teams within the wider PwC network.

For graduates / summer interns, upon joining, you will be sent on induction training to give you a basic introduction to the professional and technical skills you need for the job, as well as providing you with an opportunity to get to know others you have joined with. This will be followed with regular training sessions over your first months to allow you to continue to develop these skills

Experienced hires are also enrolled in a number of training sessions upon joining, which are tailored depending on prior experience

All consultants will be regularly enrolled in different mandatory training sessions to ensure their continued development while at Strategy& and will also have the opportunity to sign up to additional training courses of their choice

All consultants are assigned a career coach who will support your continuous development and ensure you are given the right job roles and opportunities to allow you to achieve your personal and development goals while at Strategy&

After joining as an Associate, you will have the opportunity to progress up the grades to Senior Associate, Manager, Senior Manager, Director and Partner

Promotions are based on merit, allowing high performing individuals to progress quickly. Your career coach will put your case forward for promotion when they believe you are ready, based on the feedback provided from those you have worked with.

Within the Deals strategy team, you will be primarily working from the London office (with flexibility to work from home). There are opportunities to visit client offices for site visits and meetings, however, which could be both within or outside of the UK, but the majority of the team’s time is spent in our London office / working remotely.

Within the Corporate strategy team, there tends to be more opportunity to work closely with the client at their offices in the UK or internationally.

Other travel opportunities exist when working on a project with other network offices, when completing secondments to another office or when attending training programmes which can be located both within and outside of the UK.

We pride ourselves on cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment to empower our consultants to be the best they can be. We actively look to promote diversity through our recruitment efforts, for example by running the ‘Strategy& Women in Consulting’ and ‘Strategy& Black Talent’ pathways.

Within the team, we have a large number of Strategy& D&I networks (including Strategy& Pride, Women's Network, Wellbeing Team, South Asian Network, Parents & Carers and many more) and a dedicated Inclusion team consisting of our own consultants to support leadership decisions and make sure that we are the most inclusive workplace we can be across the board (e.g. staffing, socials, promotions, etc.)

Examples of some of our D&I networks:

Strategy& Pride sits across both our Corporate and Deals teams with the purpose of providing a welcoming space for members of the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. We define ourselves across four pillars: Support, Community, Education, and Recruitment. Within all of these we aim to ensure that Strategy& remains a space where both new joiners and our existing members feel welcome. We have shared chat groups for anything queer and organise regular events such as drinks, dinners and activities (e.g. spin classes). We work to promote inclusion and understanding within the wider team, for example through a short teach-in session on LGBTQ+ identities and microaggression

Strategy& Women's Network is designed to improve gender balance, empower women and educate the wider team on issues impacting women. We have three pillars: Events, Community and Learning & Development. In our Events team we run social events, panels and discussion groups. We are about to have our first Women’s Summit which is a half day training event for all the women in the team to develop their networking and communication skills. Our Learning and Development team also runs events including those on coaching and feedback. Finally, our Community team increases awareness of the Women’s Network and runs internal initiatives to support women in the team. 

PwC’s DAWN, a disability awareness network, helps to ensure anyone with a disability is able to work to the best of their abilities while at work. Everyone is welcome to join DAWN - whether you're affected personally with a disability or want to be able to support colleagues or relatives.