Senior Consultant / Manager, Commercial Due Diligence & Growth Strategy

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What will your typical day look like?

As a Senior Consultant or Manager on the Commercial Due Diligence (CDD) team, you will work with clients across all industry sectors primarily during the pre-deal diligence stage within the M&A lifecycle. You will lead and support strategic assessments for private equity firms, corporate clients, government and investors during transactions. This includes helping clients analyze market dynamics, competitive positioning, growth opportunities, and commercial risks to provide actionable insights that inform investment and growth decisions for clients. Your clients could be senior level executives at corporates, strategic acquirers, private equity firms and government.

This is your opportunity to apply your deep experience in commercial due diligence and strategic advisory in a dynamic, fast paced environment. You will join a growing team of seasoned M&A practitioners who enjoy solving complex commercial challenges and guiding clients as they make high stakes decisions in the competitive world of dealmaking.

As a Senior Consultant/Manager you will:

• Manage and support end‑to‑end commercial due diligence projects on both buy‑side and sell‑side transactions, including scoping, planning, and delivery.

• Assess industry value chains, market size, growth and growth trends, competitive landscapes, and customer and regulatory dynamics.

• Evaluate target companies’ market positions, growth potential, and strategic fit with client objectives, including key value drivers, risks, red flags, and opportunities.

• Collaborate with financial and operational diligence teams to validate revenue forecasts, assumptions, and business plans.

• Contribute to the development of sector investment theses, growth strategies, and identification of value‑creation opportunities.

• Serve as a key point of contact for clients, presenting analyses, findings, and recommendations clearly and persuasively.

• Mentor junior team members, ensuring high‑quality analysis, deliverables, and professional development.

About the team

The Commercial Due Diligence (‘CDD’) team is a rapidly growing part of Deloitte’s M&A group. We provide critical commercial insights to private equity firms, corporate acquirers, and government organizations, helping them assess market attractiveness, competitive dynamics, customer behaviour, and revenue growth potential across the M&A deal cycle. Our team supports clients in validating business plans, identifying value‑creation opportunities, and building investment confidence through rigorous, evidence‑based commercial analysis.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

In this role, the expected qualifications are:

• Strong strategic and commercial acumen, with the ability to interpret market, competitive, customer, and financial data and synthesize it into clear, actionable insights.

• Experience supporting commercial due diligence across buy side and sell side engagements.

• Well developed analytical skill set, including hypothesis driven problem solving, analytical rigor, strong attention to detail, and disciplined thinking. \

• Proven ability to support multiple projects simultaneously under tight timelines and competing priorities while maintaining high quality outputs.

• Strong communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, with experience translating analyses into compelling narratives for senior stakeholders.

• High proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and market research tools (e.g., Capital IQ, PitchBook)

• Ability to effectively leverage AI enabled tools to support market research, analysis, and insight generation.

• Professional agility and adaptability, including willingness to learn new industries and subject matter areas and travel as required.

Minimum Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required, with approximately 3–5 years of relevant professional experience supporting commercial due diligence and strategy consulting projects.

• Demonstrated experience in supporting and managing teams and client relationships in faster paced, high pressure environments, including responsibility for day to day execution and delivery.

• Professional designations, applicable certifications, and/or master’s level education in a related field considered an asset.

Total Rewards

The salary range for the Senior Consultant is $84,000 - $126,000, and for the Manager is $101,000 - 169,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.