Strategy Associates & Senior Associates (Consulting) – Talent Pool
Contract / TempJob Overview
ATP is building a talent pool of Strategy Associates and Senior Associates to support ongoing and upcoming strategy and advisory engagements with private-sector clients.
These roles are suited to strong generalist consultants with experience in strategy, commercial design, and analytical problem-solving, who can integrate quickly into lean, senior-led teams and deliver high-quality outputs in fast-paced environments.
Assignments will typically involve strategic design work, commercial model development, and analytical support across a range of sectors, including consumer, retail, and network-based business models.
Key Responsibilities
- Diagnostic & Current-State Assessment
- Conduct a rapid diagnostic of the current commercial model, focusing on network footprint and performance drivers, incorporating client-provided or parallel workstream inputs on demand patterns and customer behaviour.
- Review existing incentives to identify value-creating opportunities.
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative inputs to frame priority questions and design implications for the target model.
- Commercial Model Design
- Design a franchise-style commercial model, including definition of target network archetypes, roles, and decision rights.
- Incorporate client-provided or parallel workstream inputs on value propositions into the design of aligned incentive and rewards mechanisms across archetypes.
- Translate strategic choices into clear supporting operating logic and economic assumptions.
- Economics & Assumption Testing
- Build and refine economic and financial analyses underpinning the proposed commercial model.
- Test key assumptions related to incentives, unit economics, scalability, and network performance.
- Use analytical insights to refine design choices and support client decision-making.
- Engagement Outputs & Decision Support
- Produce decision-ready materials synthesising diagnostic findings, commercial model design choices, and economic implications.
- Develop clear, structured client outputs (e.g. frameworks, exhibits, and narratives) to support senior decision-making.
- Support and document client working sessions, capturing decisions, open questions, and implications for next steps.
- Act as the day-to-day client point of contact for defined workstreams, leading discussions, addressing questions, and coordinating inputs with guidance from senior team members.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Experience required:
- 4–6 years (Associate) or 6–9 years (Senior Associate) of experience in strategy consulting, management consulting, corporate strategy, or a closely related field.
- Strong generalist consulting toolkit, including problem structuring, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and presentation development.
- Experience working on strategy engagements in fast-paced, client-facing environments.
- Exposure to consumer, retail, distribution, or network-based business models is an advantage but not required.
- Prior experience working with Management consulting firms
Technical requirements:
- Strong ability to frame ambiguous strategic problems, define clear problem statements, and structure them into coherent workplans.
- Experience developing and refining hypotheses, identifying key value drivers, and prioritising analyses to inform decision-making.
- Ability to design and oversee targeted qualitative and quantitative analyses, ensuring analytical effort is focused on the most decision-relevant questions.
- Proven capability to synthesise complex analyses into clear insights and translate them into concise, decision-oriented recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- High level of comfort working independently in Excel and PowerPoint (or equivalent tools), producing client-ready outputs with limited oversight.
Soft skills:
- Ability to integrate quickly into an existing team and operate with limited onboarding.
- Strong ownership mindset and accountability for outputs.
- Comfort working under time pressure and adapting to evolving priorities.
- Collaborative, professional engagement style with confidence front-of-client.