EY Parthenon Strategy Engagement Manager Education ; Assistant Director

EY Parthenon Strategy Engagement Manager Education Sector (Assistant Director)

Location:

London

Other locations:
Primary Location Only

Date: 31 Jan 2026

Requisition

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

At EY-Parthenon, you’ll have the opportunity to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help us become even better as well. Join us, build an exceptional experience for yourself and shape the future with confidence.

EY-Parthenon is a global strategy consultancy. We challenge assumptions to design and deliver strategies that help improve profitability and long-term value. We have more than 9,000 professionals around the globe, working across three areas of focus:

• Corporate & Growth Strategy: Developing growth strategies by providing in-depth market, competitor and customer insights.
• Transaction Strategy & Execution (TSE): Developing, evaluating and executing transaction strategies across the whole M&A and investment lifecycle.
• Turnaround & Restructuring Strategy :
  Rapidly creating, preserving and recovering value in urgent and complex situations.

This particular job opportunity relates to Corporate & Growth Strategy UK only. In the UK, we are also recruiting for roles in our Transaction strategy & execution team, please refer to separate opportunities listed for details of roles also available. Please note you will only be able to apply to one role at EY-Parthenon, so please ensure you are clear on where you want to apply before submitting your application.

At EY-P Strategy, we put our purpose — Building a better working world — at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to using unconventional yet pragmatic thinking to deliver actionable strategies to help our clients navigate the ever-changing business landscape.

You’ll be a part of a collaborative team that contributes to transforming client businesses using cutting‑edge research, analytics and AI‑powered tools. We tackle complex challenges and shape the future of the working world with confidence. Joining our team means embodying our core values and behaviours to achieve exceptional results for our clients.

We advise on a vast range of issues, such as core value propositions, competitive positioning, growth strategies and commercial due diligence. EY-Parthenon Strategy employees enjoy unparalleled contact with influential and highly experienced professionals within the firm, as well as at clients’ organisations across a multitude of sectors. The London office focuses on Education, Industrials & Energy, Health Sciences & Wellness, Retail & Consumer Goods, Technology, Media & Telecoms, and Business Services.

Our current work is typically focused on applying our deep sector & strategy knowledge to various types of projects, including:

• Strategy development and assessment
• Market entry strategy and opportunity sizing
• Product and business unit strategy development
• Divestment options analysis

You’ll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of global and local corporate clients and private equity clients. You'll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement.

The EY-Parthenon Strategy team is currently seeking to expand their team and recruit Education Practice Engagement Managers who will be able to build on their current strategy development, transaction and commercial experience, and work on a number of diverse and demanding projects for private equity as well as blue‑chip corporate and entrepreneurial clients.

Education is a large and rapidly growing sector hin this sector, we are building on our past success and are further expanding our team, with a clear ambition to maintain our leading…