Lead Strategy Consultant
About The Position
The Lead Strategy Consultant will join Exadel’s growing UK advisory practice and help shape and scale its strategy consulting capabilities. The role acts as a trusted advisor to senior client leaders, often at the C-suite level, helping clients clarify business goals, uncover opportunities, challenge assumptions, and define meaningful outcomes. The consultant will assess combinations of people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology to help clients improve performance, develop capabilities, address operational challenges, and enable transformation. The role stays involved beyond strategy definition, working with delivery teams to turn strategic direction into solutions and outcomes. It also includes building client relationships and business opportunities, contributing to consulting methods and practice growth, and mentoring other consultants. The listed US locations are Philadelphia, Tampa, Chicago, or Dallas/Austin, and candidates must reside in the United States.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in strategy, management, business, or technology consulting, with a track record of leading client engagements and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Ability to uncover opportunities, challenge assumptions, and guide clients toward strategic direction and business outcomes without relying on a predefined problem or solution.
- Strong curiosity and critical-thinking skills, including investigating root causes and respectfully challenging client thinking when appropriate.
- Confidence engaging senior executives, including C-suite leaders, building trust, navigating complex stakeholder environments, and influencing strategic decisions.
- Commercial and business acumen, including connecting goals to financial and operational outcomes, quantifying opportunities, building business cases, and discussing revenue, margin, cost, risk, and return on investment.
- Empathy, creativity, sound judgment, and understanding of how people, organizations, and technology interact.
- Curiosity about emerging technologies and hands-on experience using AI to enhance work; ability to recognize AI’s value and limitations and collaborate with technical teams.
- Experience translating strategic direction into practical roadmaps, actionable recommendations, and measurable outcomes, and connecting business strategy with delivery.
- Comfort moving beyond presentations to test ideas, validate assumptions, and develop tangible proof; ability to thrive in ambiguity and work at pace while balancing hands-on contribution with leadership.
- Experience assessing organizational capabilities, business processes, governance, and operating models and recommending changes aligned with client goals.
- Experience managing, mentoring, or coaching consultants, with an interest in helping others develop.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, including distilling complex challenges into clear narratives and persuasively communicating recommendations.
- Commitment to intellectual rigor, accuracy, quality, and thoughtful recommendations that create client value.
- Professional fluency in English.
- Must reside in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Own consulting workstreams and engagements end-to-end, including quality, timelines, budgets, and client outcomes.
- Lead client workshops and ask questions that clarify underlying objectives beyond clients’ initial problem statements or proposed solutions.
- Identify root causes, challenges, and opportunities, and help clients focus on outcomes that create value.
- Define success with clients and translate goals into strategic priorities, actionable recommendations, and practical roadmaps.
- Develop client strategies and strategic roadmaps focused on measurable business outcomes.
- Evaluate strategic options across people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology, including AI where it can add value.
- Lead business case development, quantify opportunities, and present investment recommendations to client leadership and finance teams.
- Collaborate with advisory, design, data, AI, and engineering teams to translate strategies into tangible solutions.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client decision-makers and develop an understanding of their businesses, priorities, and needs.
- Identify opportunities for additional client value and help shape new engagements and long-term partnerships.
- Support proposals, pitches, business cases, and solution development for new opportunities.
- Contribute to thought leadership on business challenges, strategic opportunities, and emerging technologies.
- Develop and improve consulting frameworks, methodologies, and reusable approaches.
- Help build and scale strategy consulting capabilities and influence how the practice engages clients and delivers outcomes.
- Mentor and coach consultants in strategic thinking, problem-solving, and client leadership.
Benefits
- International projects
- In-office, hybrid, or remote flexibility
- Medical healthcare
- Recognition program
- Ongoing learning and reimbursement
- Well-being program
- Team events and local benefits
- Sports compensation
- Referral bonuses
- Top-tier equipment provision
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for eligible US-based employees
- Life and disability insurance for eligible US-based employees
- Retirement savings programs for eligible US-based employees
- Paid time off and paid holidays for eligible US-based employees
- Other wellness or voluntary benefit programs, subject to plan terms and eligibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
