carwow - Strategic & Corporate Development Associate

• 2–4 years' experience in management consulting (ideally MBB or Big Four strategy/transaction advisory) or a comparable in-house strategy / corporate development role at a high-growth company. • Excellent strategic thinking, with the ability to structure unstructured problems, generate insight, and propose actionable recommendations. • Exceptional communication and slide-making skills. You can produce clean, insight-led, Board-quality decks and written materials, and you hold a high bar for visual clarity and narrative flow. • Strong commercial acumen and a solid understanding of how a business works, with the ability to read and reason about a P&L, unit economics, and the levers that drive performance (especially in tech, marketplace or digital businesses). • Analytically sharp and numerate, comfortable working with data, building straightforward analyses in Excel/Sheets, and stress-testing assumptions. • High level of ownership, proactivity, and ability to drive tasks end-to-end with minimal supervision. • Ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders without formal authority. • Discretion and integrity. Comfortable handling confidential financial, strategic and personnel-related information. • Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change; adaptable and resilient in a fast-paced environment. • Prior exposure to preparing Board-level or investor materials, whether in a consulting, in-house strategy, or corporate finance context. • Experience in or around tech, marketplace, classifieds, automotive or e-commerce businesses. • Genuine fluency with agentic AI tools and a clear point of view on how they can be deployed across strategy, analysis and operational workflows. You actually build with them, not just talk about them. • Direct exposure to live deal processes, including M&A transactions (buy-side or sell-side) and/or post-merger integration work, in either an advisory or in-house capacity.