Strategy & Operations (Supply Chain & Manufacturing) - Graduate Associate

At PwC South East Asia Consulting, we help businesses work smarter and grow faster. We partner with our clients to innovate and grow, reduce costs, manage risk and regulation as well as leverage talent. Our aim is to support businesses in designing, managing and executing lasting beneficial change.

Our practices provide a range of professional services to deliver large scale and cross-territory transformation projects that are business-led and tech-enabled - from strategy through to execution.

Our Strategy and Operations (S&O) team delivers deep industry expertise with functional know-how to help clients maximise their commercial (pricing, promotions), operations (supply chain, procurement) and go-to-market (e-commerce, loyalty) capabilities through a full-scale transformation lens.

As a team, our work spans a range of topics - from business strategy and planning, to operations and supply chain, and beyond to data analytics with the tools and technologies that deliver impact - and we work across territories with large-scale multinationals as well as local conglomerates, including some of the most well-recognised brand names in the region and world.

Our diverse client service teams encourage out-of-the-box thinking, problem solving, great team mentality and a curiosity for understanding the latest industry trends, innovations and emerging technologies.

We are adding to our growing practice - and are looking for ambitious consultants, who can work collaboratively across disciplines; support in delivering challenging project assignments grows with our practice to greater heights.

As a Graduate Associate on our S&O team, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience. Responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:

• Conduct market research, analyse business challenges, identify growth opportunities and develop strategic plans
• Assess client's operational processes, identify inefficiencies and develop operational improvement initiatives
• Synthesise complex information and translate it into meaningful insights
• Build, maintain, communicate and present insightful analysis from the data
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to leverage collective expertise and deliver comprehensive solutions to clients
• Support in project management to monitor project progress, identify risks and ensure that deliverables are met within established timelines and budget
• Assist with internal practice development

Expectations as a PwC Professional

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from the current trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behaviour to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Candidate Qualification

• Degree from leading educational institutes in Engineering , Business Management and related fields.
• Internship experience in management consulting or related role, with a focus on strategy development and operational excellence is an advantage
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and agile with change