Innovation Insights Strategist - Practice Builder Leadership Position
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About The Position
If you are seeking an entrepreneurial environment where you have autonomy and the ability to grow yourself and a practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, this could be the right next challenge for you. You will be supported by the Managing Partner in a collaborative team environment where you are expected to lead and drive results for clients. The Valen Group is a strategy consulting firm with diversified practices in growth and innovation, and we are seeking an energetic innovation and insights practitioner to lead engagements. We have a growing agile innovation offering using qualitative empathy, behavioral science, and design-thinking that we are seeking this individual to further develop and introduce to new clients. For almost two decades, we have partnered with global market leaders such as Nestlé, P&G, Coca-Cola, Adidas, and DuckDuckGo on strategic growth projects that explore major issues and/or opportunities that cut across various categories. We are a growth-focused boutique strategy and innovation consulting firm. Our service commitment is to work on each engagement until our clients are fully satisfied with the outcome. Valen also has a strategic partnerships and brand licensing practice as well as other business-related entrepreneurial ventures in our Valen ecosystem. People like the Valen Group environment because of the entrepreneurial environment for personal growth opportunities, freedom to learn, and rewards for successful contributions. As an Innovation Strategist, you will directly lead engagements, collaborate with team members, and drive the results for clients in qualitative work, innovation, and marketing messaging/positioning type engagements. Clients will trust you and work with you because of your experience, creative problem-solving capability, demeanor, and decisiveness. We require demonstrable experience and success with known consumer brands. Experience is skewed towards consultants who have the capability to run and execute qualitative insight and all aspects of innovation consulting projects such as learning sessions, ideation or innovation facilitation, trend and market analysis, road mapping, and size of prize estimations. To be a practice leader, you must demonstrate practice building skills and bring existing relationships and contacts into the practice.
