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About the Role

Zensar is seeking a Senior Enterprise Strategy Manager to lead the development of enterprise strategy and complex strategic initiatives. This role involves defining priority questions, shaping analysis, and advising leadership on growth, investment, transformation, and performance. The position requires providing senior consulting leadership, ensuring executive-ready outputs, influencing stakeholders, and strengthening the strategy function.

Responsibilities

Identify, frame, and prioritize enterprise strategic opportunities and challenges.
Lead the development of strategic recommendations with explicit implications, risks, assumptions, value drivers, and execution considerations.
Ensure strategy initiatives deliver against enterprise objectives, maintain focus on impact, and surface risks or dependencies early.
Oversee senior workstreams and integrated project teams, ensuring outputs are aligned, high quality, and connected to a consistent strategic narrative.
Anticipate executive and stakeholder needs, manage competing incentives, and drive alignment across functions and senior stakeholder groups.
Lead executive-level materials, Board or ExCo-ready communications, workshops, and decision forums that support clear strategic choices.
Coach managers and junior team members, provide direction and feedback, and contribute to capability building, methods, frameworks, and continuous improvement.
Lead the framing of enterprise-level strategic priorities, problem statements, and hypotheses for complex, ambiguous business challenges.
Develop strategic options, evaluate trade-offs, and shape evidence-based recommendations on growth, investment, operating model, customer, technology, and transformation priorities.
Oversee multiple complex strategic initiatives and senior workstreams, ensuring quality, integration, alignment, and delivery against enterprise priorities.
Advise senior executives through compelling, executive-ready narratives, decision forums, and strategic workshops that clarify implications, risks, assumptions, and choices.
Lead stakeholder engagement strategies across business, finance, risk, operations, and technology, managing competing priorities and influencing alignment across senior stakeholders.

Requirements

Deep knowledge of financial services, including customers, products and services, risk, regulation, and enterprise performance drivers.
Significant experience in an in-house strategy function, top-tier consulting firm, strategy boutique, or equivalent executive advisory environment.
Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives, challenge assumptions, and influence enterprise-level decisions involving material trade-offs or investment choices.
Strong consulting toolkit: hypothesis-driven problem solving, strategic option development, market and competitor analysis, business case development, storylining, and executive facilitation.
Experience leading senior project or workstream teams in complex environments, with accountability for quality, pace, stakeholder alignment, and measurable business impact.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, able to translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership and Board audiences.
Ability to balance enterprise-level strategic thinking with pragmatic execution and meticulous attention to detail.
Comply with Our Code, Purpose, Values, and relevant Policies.
Respect relevant regulatory obligations and Conduct Rules.
This is a first line job, responsible for intelligent risk taking and managing its direct and consequential risks.
Promote a culture where risk, including financial crime and fraud, is managed effectively, including prompt identification, escalation, and reporting.

Skills

Creative
Design
CX
Digital Experience
IT solution sales
New business acquisition
Strategic relationships
Enterprise deals
Hypothesis-driven problem solving
Strategic option development
Market and competitor analysis
Business case development
Storylining
Executive facilitation
Written communication
Verbal communication
Presentation communication

Location

London, UK
South Africa

Work Type

4 Days in office
Contract
Possibility of fulltime
Fulltime

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Degree-level or equivalent qualification
MBA or advanced business qualification preferred

Benefits

Comprehensive benefit package

About the Company

Zensar is a leading digital solutions and technology services company partnering with global organizations on their digital transformation journey.
A technology partner of choice, with strong track-record of innovation, credible investment in digital solutions and assertion of commitment to client’s success, Zensar’s comprehensive range of services and solutions enable clients achieve new thresholds of performance.
Part of the $40 billion APAX Partners’ portfolio of companies, Zensar is uniquely positioned to help existing businesses run efficiently, manage legacy transformation and plan business growth through innovative digital platform.
Indigo Slate is a full-service human experience company.
We are a digital organization backed by a global engineering leader, and we’re dedicated to helping clients build transformative experiences from start to finish.
We create smart experiences that deliver powerful results through a profound intersection of marketing, technology, business, and creative.
We understand that brands are no longer judged through their advertising, but through each touchpoint, both internal and external, building strength with every experience.
At Indigo Slate, we harness a mix of skills unique in our industry—equal parts strategic consultancy, creative agency, and technology thought leadership—to build and run some of the best experiences on the planet.