Job Description & Summary

The Value Creation Strategy team helps leading businesses and investors shape strategy, transform performance, and create sustainable value. We advise senior leadership teams on complex strategic, operational, technology, and data-driven challenges, helping them make better decisions and deliver measurable outcomes. Within Pensions and Private Equity, our team works with some of the largest and most sophisticated investors in Canada and globally. We help clients address high-stakes questions across enterprise and business unit strategy, investment and operating models, performance improvement, technology and data strategy, and transformation. We also develop perspectives on sector, asset class, and market trends across public and alternative investments to help clients identify opportunities, manage complexity, and drive growth.

The Chance

As a Manager in the Value Creation team, you will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of teams and lines of service across PwC, with a focus on supporting Private Equity and Pension Funds. To stand out and be fit for the future in a constantly changing world, we look for purpose‑led and values‑driven leaders who bring the behaviours of the PwC Professional to how they work every day, combining trusted leadership with distinctive outcomes. You will lead teams solving high‑value strategy and transformation challenges across pensions, institutional asset management, and private equity. You will work closely with clients to shape decisions, solve complex business and technical problems, and deliver practical change across growth, operating model, capability building, and performance improvement.

Responsibilities

Strategy and Problem Solving

- Lead issue‑based problem solving from diagnosis through recommendation and execution
- Develop fact‑based perspectives through quantitative analysis, qualitative research, and targeted market insight
- Apply first‑principles thinking to build practical frameworks, options, and recommendations




- Translate complex findings into clear, executive‑ready materials and decision support

Client Engagement

- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders
- Understand client priorities, operating context, and investment objectives
- Lead client discussions, workshops, and working sessions that support decisions and alignment
- Work across diverse, cross‑border, and multi‑disciplinary teams to deliver strong client outcomes

Business Development and Market Perspective

- Support business development with new and existing clients
- Contribute to proposals, account planning, and go‑to‑market initiatives
- Help shape sector perspectives, market propositions, and client‑ready points of view
- Build strong internal networks across PwC Canada and PwC’s global network

Project Leadership and Delivery

- Lead projects and workstreams with clear priorities, timelines, and accountabilities
- Manage resources, deliverables, budgets, and engagement economics
- Ensure outputs are practical, high‑quality, and aligned to client expectations
- Navigate ambiguity with structure, judgment, and disciplined delivery

Team Leadership

- Coach, mentor, and develop junior team members
- Create an inclusive, collaborative, and high‑performing team environment
- Provide regular feedback and support career development
- Model integrity and uphold PwC’s code of ethics and business conduct

Qualifications and Experience

- Strategy consulting experience or comparable in‑house strategy and transformation experience, ideally in asset management, alternatives, investment operations, finance,



technology, or transformation.
- University degree in business administration, finance, economics, engineering, law, or a related field (CFA or similar qualification desirable).
- Defining corporate, business unit, investment, operating model, technology, or transformation strategies for pension funds, institutional investors, private equity firms, or related organizations.
- Assessing market, competitive, operating model, technology, and external trends.
- Diagnosing complex business, operating, technology, and data challenges and developing practical solutions.
- Managing workstreams, teams, timelines, budgets, and senior client communications.
- Building trusted relationships and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Synthesizing quantitative and qualitative information into clear insights and recommendations.
- Developing executive‑ready materials, storylines, and presentations.
- Supporting business development, proposals, and client growth initiatives.
- Coaching junior team members and contributing to a strong team culture.
- Demonstrating strong PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and AI‑enabled delivery skills.
- Travel occasionally within Canada, and potentially internationally, based on client needs.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $112,400 - $162,400, varying by location. Base salary is determined by skills, experience, qualifications and work location. Eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs.

EEO and Inclusion Statement

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which is the land of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognize the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

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📌 Strategy, Value Creation, Manager (Toronto)
🏢 PwC Canada
📍 Toronto