Manager - Macro Strategy, EY Parthenon - London

Manager - Macro Strategy, EY Parthenon - London

Location: London

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: 22 Apr 2026

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Key Responsibilities

You'll advise clients across all sectors supporting key decision makers in developing and executing strategies to manage various macro challenges and opportunities, with a strong focus on translating these challenges into action plans across a range of different engagements including supply chain, greenfield projects, pre deal (unlocking policy dependencies, carve out blueprints), post deal (integration planning, tracking), business cases and impact assessments, growth strategies and market entry, energy strategy, scenario planning and restructuring (incl rapid cost reduction).

This is a strongly entrepreneurial role involving growing the business and advising clients against the backdrop of non linear but market changing macro trends across money (inflation, interest rates), energy transition, sustainability, globalisation and technology. A commercial mind set is key to this consulting based role.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Project Management - be part of project teams comprising colleagues from our transactions and advisory practices
• Business and Commercially Driven - working in a fast paced, exciting environment with the ability to work through ambiguity
• Intellectual curiosity - with a strong desire to find new data, patterns and correlations to help clients look a lot deeper than the headlines; strong desire to continuously learn
• Strategic mind set - ability to connect dots and cross pollinate across several different drivers and forces; ability to identify "net effects" and avoid looking in silos
• Business economics - grasp of P&L, cash flow and cost of capital
• Commercial origination; assist in researching and writing reports, preparing pitches and presentations, and attending meetings with clients to help sell work; as well as client and media events / interactions
• Building Relationships - Strong working relationships with senior clients, including influence, advice and support to key decision makers

To Qualify for the Role

• Specialism in at least two of these areas: Professional services / consulting, Strong analytical skills and financial acumen, Macro economics, policy and geopolitics

Ideally You'll Also Have

• Experience of delivering high quality reports and presentations
• Strong team participation skills, particularly teams with diverse skills and backgrounds
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Strong work initiative and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas
• Professionalism and consistency in approach to client work, internal business and practice development projects

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast paced, successful transaction team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly over several client deals across the UK and Globally.