Corporate Growth and Strategy Engagement Lead and Engagement Director (Financial Services)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global consulting firm focused on financial services, with more than 1,500 consultants across 19 offices serving over 970 clients in asset management, wealth management, insurance, fintech, and broader financial services.

What you will do

• Lead corporate, business-unit, growth strategy, market entry, value creation, and strategic operating model engagements from problem definition through analysis, recommendations, and senior client communication.
• Structure ambiguous strategic questions into hypotheses, workplans, and analytical approaches, directing market, customer, competitor, financial, and operational research.
• Develop rigorous, commercially grounded recommendations and client deliverables, integrating data-driven and AI-supported analytics.
• Manage engagement economics, resourcing, timelines, delivery risk, and high-performing consulting teams.
• Build senior client relationships, advise leadership teams, and contribute to proposals, pitches, business development, and origination.
• Develop practice propositions, perspectives, intellectual property, recruitment, delivery standards, and consulting capabilities; Engagement Directors take increasing ownership of practice growth.

Requirements

• Significant experience in corporate strategy consulting, ideally from a leading strategy consultancy or the strategy practice of a wider firm.
• Experience leading strategy engagements end to end, including problem solving, team leadership, senior client delivery, and moving from evidence to strategic choice and clear recommendations.
• Financial Services experience, ideally in asset management, wealth management, insurance, banking, or adjacent sectors; genuine interest in developing sector expertise is required where coverage is narrower.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, including presenting to and working directly with executive teams.
• Credibility and confidence advising senior executives on consequential decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and develop consulting teams.
• Commercial appetite and genuine interest in building client relationships and originating new work.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, collaborative working style, and interest in drawing on capabilities across a wider consulting platform.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Engagement Director candidates additionally need evidence of developing senior client relationships, contributing to winning new work, helping build teams, propositions, or consulting capabilities, and taking greater ownership of origination and practice growth.

Nice to have

• Broad Financial Services coverage across asset management, wealth management, insurance, banking, or adjacent sectors.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on C-suite corporate and growth strategy questions for leading financial institutions.
• Focused Corporate Strategy remit within a fast-growing practice.
• Projects for clients across Europe and North America.
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and high-performance environment with access to senior colleagues and clients.
• Training, coaching, mentorship, career progression, competitive remuneration, benefits, and annual profit-sharing.