International Growth Practice -Senior Associate

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About the Team

Headquartered in Singapore, PwC’s International Growth Practice is a global team supporting organizations to address their internationalization ambitions, whilst achieving rebalanced and resilient growth strategies. We are a truly global team, with satellite offices in Europe and the United States, made up of individuals from over 15 nationalities that reflects our diverse and extensive cross-country and multi-industry experience.

The practice caters to a wide array of problem statements ranging from international market expansion, global location assessment, international supply chain transformation, international talent strategy, intra-regional trade flow analysis and strategic point of view development. Our global team focuses on several sectors including healthcare and pharmaceuticals, industrial manufacturing, automotive , consumer goods, telecoms, media and technology, financial services as well as government and global institutions. For more information about PwC’s International Growth Practice, please visit our website: www.pwc.com/internationalgrowth

About the role 

We are looking for experienced candidates with demonstrable experience from at least one (1) or more of the areas listed below:

• Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals

• Industrial Manufacturing

• Automotive

• Consumer Goods

• Media and Technology

• People and Organisation

Job Description

• Develop expansion strategies for clients from the sector seeking international expansion or to realign their existing supply chain and production footprints to being more rebalanced and resilient.

• Typical engagements will focus on developing in depth analysis and insights for:
  
  >Market expansion strategies (Where to play) – market, consumer and competitor assessments as well as product and services analysis
  >Market entry scenarios (How to win) – Channel strategies, operating model design, partner evaluation and selection.
  >Global and regional site selection for new HQs, R&D sites, manufacturing / production plants
  >Global talent assessments, to assess the availability of talents for growth strategies
  >Supplier portfolio realignment, identifying and assessing suppliers to meet the needs of realigned supply chains and manufacturing.
  >Strategic points of view focused on international growth

• In addition, support client discussions and workshops with senior executives of corporate organizations and governments.

• Engage in business development and client pursuit efforts

• Work closely with PwC’s global network of teams and connect relevant expertise in PwC to address clients’ unique business challenges 

• Establish strong international network of external stakeholders including clients and industry associations and participate in regional and international conferences and client events

About you

• 3-5 years of relevant experience working in our target sectors in either a management consulting setting or within industry in strategy or general management role

• International working experience in key global markets (E.g. US, UK, China, Japan, Germany, South East Asia etc.)

• Experience delivering client consulting projects with multiple stakeholders and teams in different countries  

• Experienced in managing data collection and analysis and resourceful with excellent research and analytical skills; can transform quantitative and qualitative data into insights relating to country, sector and consumer trends, competitive intelligence

• Possesses ability to develop insightful presentations to support proposals, client discussions and business development pursuits

• Thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment

• Possesses strong communication and presentation skills 

• Team player comfortable with working in a multi-cultural and diverse global team