Strategy Manager

Our Strategy team plays a pivotal role in shaping the Firm’s long-term vision and ensuring sustainable growth and competitive advantage. The team conducts comprehensive market and financial analyses, evaluates the competitive landscape and formulates strategies, overseeing their execution from inception to completion. All decision-making is grounded in a robust fact base, ensuring informed and effective strategies. Collaborating closely with senior leadership, the Strategy team sets priorities, allocates resources efficiently and drives key initiatives. They continuously monitor industry trends, client needs and regulatory changes, proactively adapting the Firm’s strategies. By fostering innovation and a culture of continuous improvement, the Strategy team ensures that the Firm remains agile, forward-thinking and well positioned for future success.

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.  With lawyers operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on- the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.  It’s not just about our global network of offices; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’ s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.

As part of the Strategy team, you will help formulate and execute key strategic projects that are critical to delivering the Firm’s vision and strategy. Reporting to the Global Director of Strategy, you will support initiatives across the full strategy lifecycle, including formulation, execution and performance monitoring. You will work closely with the Executive Committee and functional leaders, providing data-driven insights to inform decisions at the most senior levels of the Firm and contributing to the development of other members of the Strategy team.

Duties and Accountabilities

As part of the Global Strategy team, you will work closely with internal stakeholders and external consultants. You will be expected to scope, lead and synthesize analyses to draw robust conclusions and develop insightful, actionable recommendations. To articulate your ideas, you will storyboard and design clear, compelling deliverables; produce high‑quality first drafts suitable for executive audiences; and build strong relationships with key stakeholders, helping to shape and guide their strategic direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Legal ecosystem insights: Build a deep understanding of the evolving legal ecosystem and identify innovative ways to leverage it to create value for the Firm.
• Market and competitive analysis: Define, analyze and synthesize trends in the legal market and competitive landscape, highlighting those with the greatest impact on the Firm’s vision and strategy.
• Alternative delivery models: Develop a solid working knowledge of alternative legal service delivery models and the core digital technologies reshaping the legal market.
• Issue and opportunity framing: Proactively identify strategic issues and opportunities, and frame them clearly, concisely and with a point of view.
• Strategic roadmaps: Design detailed execution roadmaps and robust financial business cases to support major change and growth initiatives.
• Analytical methods: Apply rigorous analytical methods to structure problems, perform quantitative and qualitative analyses and support well-founded recommendations.
• Growth and implementation strategies: Develop and help implement strategies that drive profitable and sustainable growth.
• Change management: Support change management and communication plans to drive adoption of strategic initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, training needs and feedback loops.
• Business and financial modeling: Build and maintain business and financial models in Microsoft Excel and develop dashboards and reports in Power BI.
• Independent and team leadership: Work independently with minimal supervision and lead project teams or workstreams within larger strategic initiatives.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate effectively with partners and business services teams across practices, regions and functions to co-create and deliver strategic initiatives.
• Communication and deliverables: Communicate complex ideas clearly and succinctly, and produce high-quality deliverables using MS PowerPoint, Excel and (where relevant) Visio.
• Mentoring: Coach, mentor and provide day-to-day guidance to junior team members, helping to develop their skills and performance.

Capabilities

• Project management: Proven ability to plan, prioritize and manage projects and multiple workstreams in a fast-paced, complex environment.
• Stakeholder influence: Comfortable engaging with and influencing senior stakeholders, including partners and functional leaders.
• Client service orientation: Strong client-service mindset with a practical, solutions-focused approach to problem-solving.
• Analytical rigor: Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to research, interpret and synthesize complex information into clear insights.
• Data literacy: Confident working with large, complex data sets and translating them into clear, actionable insights.
• Impactful communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• Change leadership: Able to anticipate and manage the people and process implications of change and support leaders in driving adoption.
• Organization and detail: Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and follow-through to drive initiatives to completion.

Qualifications and skills 

• A four-year college degree plus a minimum of 6 years of full-time consulting or related experience
• MBA preferred
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experience with other tools & systems such as SharePoint, PowerBI, Visio, Legora, Harvey and similar is an advantage

What We Offer 

When you join us, you’ll be working directly with partners, business leaders and many other inspiring colleagues across our global network of offices. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and development opportunities that will help you achieve your potential. 

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a Strategy Professional, and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages. 

About White & Case 

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many. 

Location and Reporting 

The role is based in London and reports to the Global Director of Strategy, who is based in New York.

Our standard office hours are 9:30-18:00, with a requirement for 4 days in the office per week (Monday - Thursday). 

Firm Benefits 

We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include: 

• Private medical insurance 

• Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5% 

• Yearly wellbeing fund 

• Income protection 

• Life insurance 

• Critical Illness insurance 

• Private GP services 

• Travel insurance 

• Dental coverage 

• Cycle to work 

• Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment) 

Equal Opportunity Statement 

White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us. We will be happy to work with you.

Note to recruitment agencies:  Our internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction. 

Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the London Recruitment team.  

When engaging with agencies, we are supported by our preferred suppliers. 

This role reports to

Associate Director, Strategy

Equal Opportunities

White & Case is committed to creating a fair workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or adjustment to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email us. We will be happy to work with you.

The Firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.

The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.

Note to Recruitment Agencies

Our internal Recruitment team manages all aspects of lateral hiring. All agencies must have signed terms of business—specific to the relevant office—before submitting any candidates. CVs or applications sent directly to White & Case partners or employees will also not be considered formal introductions. If you have questions, please contact the relevant Recruitment team. We work with our preferred suppliers when engaging agencies.