Strategy Consultant

Department: Strategy Team: Industry Strategy & Foresight, Corporate Strategy
Location: London (Hybrid 2 - 3 days in the office)
Position type: Permanent, Full time

About the role

The Strategy Consultant supports the development of high-quality strategic insights, recommendations, and decision frameworks for both industry-facing and internal strategy priorities. This role works across sector strategy and corporate strategy priorities - supporting industry foresight, strategic planning, business case development, and executive decision making. It offers exceptional exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to influence high impact industry topics.

Key Responsibilities

• Framing complex problems clearly
• Conducting structured research and analysis
  Develop market, competitor and ecosystem assessments;
  Support development of sector outlooks and foresight reports;
• Synthesising insights into compelling narratives
  Translate complex information into clear strategic implications
• Supporting executive decision making with robust evidence and clear options
  Provide clear recommendations with defined trade offs and risks; ensure choices are data driven
• Problem structuring and decision support
  Organise ambiguous challenges into structured workstreams;
  Build analytical models, scenarios and frameworks;
• Cross functional collaboration
  Gather insights from regional and functional teams;
  Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions;
• Ensure alignment between strategic recommendations and operational realities

About You

• Experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy or project delivery roles
• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
• Comfortable working with quantitative and qualitative data
• Ability to structure ambiguous questions into clear frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High intellectual curiosity and learning agility
• Comfortable operating across different functions and levels of seniority
• Experience in management consulting, telecom, technology or digital ecosystems (essential)

About Your Skills

• Delivery - providing clear, data driven recommendations by breaking down complex problems
• Agility - adapting quickly to changing priorities and ambiguity
• Teamwork - collaborating effectively across teams and building strong relationships
• Analysis - using structured, data driven analysis to generate actionable insights

What We Offer

Working at GSMA provides unparalleled access to the mobile industry and the chance to shape its direction. Benefits include competitive compensation, generous holiday allowances, additional professional development days, learning and development opportunities, and a flexible, hybrid work environment.

Diversity and Inclusion

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and invite applications from all demographics. Flexi time and remote working are available to all staff. GSMA is an equal opportunity employer.