PWC

Value Creation Manager

PWC$112K — $162K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of strategy consulting or similar transformation experience in asset management or private equity
  • University degree in business administration, finance, or related field preferred
  • Experience developing strategies for pension funds and institutional investors
  • Skilled in diagnosing complex business challenges and providing solutions
  • Proficient in building relationships with senior stakeholders
  • Able to synthesize data into actionable insights and recommendations
  • Strong presentation and communication skills using tools like PowerPoint and Excel

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic problem solving from diagnosis through execution
  • Develop data-driven insights through quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Translate complex findings into executive-ready materials
  • Cultivate trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders
  • Facilitate client discussions and workshops for alignment
  • Support business development initiatives and market planning
  • Manage project deliverables, timelines, and team performance

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with leading businesses and investors
  • Collaborative and inclusive team culture
  • Exposure to cross-border projects and global network
  • Professional development and mentoring opportunities
  • Engagement in high-impact strategic projects
Full Job Description
Line of Service
Advisory

Industry/Sector
Not Applicable

Specialism
Deal Strategy

Management Level
Manager

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 Opportunity

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 really stand out and make us 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. You will:

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


What You'll Bring

  • You bring strategy consulting experience or comparable in-house strategy and transformation experience, ideally in asset management, alternatives, investment operations, finance, technology, or transformation.


  • A university degree in business administration, finance, economics, engineering, law, or a related field is preferred. A CFA or similar qualification is desirable but not required.


  • 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


  • Travelling occasionally within Canada, and potentially internationally, based on client needs


This newly created role reflects our commitment to growth and delivering distinctive value for our clients and stakeholders.

The salary range for this position is $112,400 - $162,400. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Administration, Business Process Improvement, Carve-Outs, Change Management, Client Management, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Contract Negotiation, Cost Efficiency, Cost Reduction, Creativity, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Enhanced Due Diligence, HR Due Diligence, Inclusion, Initial Public Offering (IPO), Intellectual Curiosity, Learning Agility, M&A Strategy {+ 20 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements
Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No

Government Clearance Required?
No

Job Posting End Date
July 10, 2026

About PWC

PwC is a multinational professional services network of firms headquartered in London, United Kingdom, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. PwC ranks as the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Deloitte, EY and KPMG. PwC firms operate in 157 countries, 742 locations, with 276,000 people. As of 2020, 26% of the workforce worked in the Americas, 26% in Asia, 32% in Western Europe, 5% in Middle East and Africa and 11% in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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284,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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