Joint Venture Advisory - Associate Director

Associate Director – Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances

Location: London (hybrid)

An opportunity to join a leading global consulting firm’s high-growth Deal Advisory/Execution practice, working at the forefront of complex joint ventures, partnerships, and strategic alliances across industries and geographies.

This is a senior leadership role within a specialist team that advises clients from early-stage partnership strategy through to deal structuring, negotiation, execution, and ongoing governance. You’ll operate in a highly entrepreneurial environment, helping shape a fast-growing JV and Alliances capability while delivering high-impact work for some of the world’s most recognisable organisations.

You’ll lead end-to-end joint venture and alliance engagements, partnering closely with senior client stakeholders and multidisciplinary internal teams across corporate finance, legal, tax, valuation, and integration.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading complex JV and partnership engagements from concept through to execution and implementation
• Advising clients on partnership strategy, operating models, valuation, governance and deal structuring
• Supporting negotiations and drafting of key commercial agreements
• Driving business development, shaping propositions, and winning new work
• Managing multidisciplinary teams and overseeing delivery quality, risk and financial performance
• Developing thought leadership and contributing to the growth of a high-performing advisory practice
• Coaching and developing junior consultants and future leaders

• Strong background in joint ventures, partnerships, alliances or complex commercial deals
• Experience from top-tier consulting, corporate development, private equity, investment banking or industry strategy roles
• Solid corporate finance skillset with exposure to valuation, business planning and transaction structuring
• Track record of leading complex work streams and client engagements
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-paced, high-growth environments

• Join a market-leading global consultancy with significant investment in Strategy and Deal Advisory
• Work on high-profile, complex, cross-border partnerships and transactions
• Operate at Associate Director level with real ownership over clients, delivery and practice growth
• Enjoy exposure across sectors, geographies and deal types — including classic M&A, integration and separation work

This is a rare opportunity for a senior deal advisory professional to step into a high-impact leadership role within a rapidly growing partnerships and joint ventures practice at a major consulting firm. If you enjoy building businesses, leading complex deals, and shaping strategy at board level — this role offers genuine influence, progression and variety.