KPMG Hiring for Consultant, Customer Strategy at Vancouver, BC Full Time

When you join KPMG, you’ll be one of over 227,000 professionals providing audit, tax, advisory and business enablement services across 146 countries.

With the support to do things differently, grow personally and professionally and bring your whole self to work, there’s no limit to the impact you can make. Let’s do this.

The Opportunity

Leading Canadian businesses are winning on customer-centric experiences delivered through end-to-end solutions. The KPMG Customer Strategy Practice has achieved significant growth over the last two years, exponentially more during these tough times, and we are expanding our team to meet the needs of our clients.

We have several exciting opportunities for individuals who are passionate about helping clients reshape their business around the customer to create truly connected and profitable enterprises. We help our clients navigate the scale of change needed to stay ahead and relentlessly innovate along the way. Working at the intersection of strategy, customer experience, technology, and operations, we collaborate closely with clients to empower them to both strategize and execute their vision.

If you have consulting experience, value culture, have delivered client experience design and/or strategy engagements then we would love to hear from you. We are looking for great people who want to be part of making KPMG ‘the clear choice in the Canadian market for imagining, designing, and building customer obsessed organizations.

What you will do:
As a Consultant on the Customer Strategy team, you will work with clients to investigate and assess their key issues, formulate and test hypotheses, develop frameworks to approach problems, conduct both qualitative and quantitative analyses, identify viable business strategies and synthesize findings in presentation materials and other types of deliverables.

The primary role of the Consultant is to help advance the client’s long-term competitive position, largely by collecting and analyzing business data, identifying and framing critical strategic choices, and co-designing and facilitating processes for change and implementation.

You will be expected to contribute to the firm’s growth and development across multiple areas of the business, including:

Stakeholder Management & Engagement Delivery: Assist in the scoping and planning of engagements, establish relationships and collaborate with key clients, lead workstreams, storyboard and develop presentations (deliverable structure and content), and prepare and facilitate workshops

Business Development: Structuring and developing compelling proposals and articulating your understanding of client asks by putting forward an approach that will get them there fast, meticulously and with quality

Practice Development: Assist in the development of methodologies and point of view documents to accelerate engagement delivery and support sales pursuits

Talent Development: Coach junior practitioners and support recruiting activities

What you bring to this role:
Consulting, or strategy related experience

Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills. Ability to research, curate, organize and synthesize diverse and complex data sets

Experience conducting structured qualitative analyses, building frameworks and solving ambiguous problems

Experience in areas of: Strategy, Innovation, Experience Design, Service Design, Client Experience Strategy, and/or Customer Journey Mapping

Keys to your success

A strong willingness to take initiative, work autonomously and manage time effectively to meet pressing deadlines

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Strong executive presence – you can establish credibility in client meetings, develop relationships with senior client leaders, and lead work sessions and deliverable presentations with senior client stakeholders

Our Values, The KPMG Way:
Integrity, we do what is right | Excellence, we never stop learning and improving | Courage, we think and act boldly | Together, we respect each other and draw strength from our differences | For Better, we do what matters

KPMG is committed to the health and safety of our people, clients and communities. With this commitment in mind, KPMG complies with all public health mandates (provincially and/or federally, as applicable) and has implemented various safety measures, including a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. KPMG’s COVID 19 Vaccination Policy requires all employees to be fully vaccinated if they wish to or are required to attend a KPMG office and/or other congregate settings in the course of their duties (such as client sites or third-party venues).

As this role requires occasional or consistent attendance at a KPMG office and/or congregate setting, the successful candidate must be fully vaccinated (i.e. have received all doses that are recommended by Health Canada, including any boosters) and must provide KPMG with proof of vaccination. KPMG will provide reasonable accommodation if the successful candidate cannot be vaccinated due to grounds protected by human rights legislation in their province of employment.

KPMG in Canada is a proud equal opportunities employer and we are committed to creating a respectful, inclusive and barrier-free workplace that allows all of our people to reach their full potential. A diverse workforce is key to our success and we believe in bringing your whole self to work. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply and hope you will choose KPMG in Canada as your employer of choice.

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