Lead Strategy Consultant

Exadel•Chicago, IL

1d•$130,000 - $150,000

About The Position

The Lead Strategy Consultant will join Exadel’s growing US-based Advisory business and help shape and scale its strategy consulting capabilities. The role serves as a trusted advisor to senior client leaders, often at C-suite level, helping them clarify business goals, identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, and define meaningful outcomes. The consultant evaluates the combination of people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology needed to achieve client goals, which may include improving performance, developing capabilities, addressing operational challenges, or enabling transformation. The role works alongside delivery teams to turn strategic direction into tangible outcomes. The consultant leads client engagements and workstreams end to end, developing executable strategies, strategic roadmaps, business cases, and recommendations grounded in business realities and measurable outcomes. They build senior client relationships, help identify and shape further opportunities, support proposals and pitches, contribute to thought leadership, and help evolve Exadel’s consulting frameworks and capabilities. The role also includes mentoring and coaching other consultants. The position is open to candidates residing in the United States. Listed eligible locations are Philadelphia, Tampa, Chicago, or Dallas/Austin. Professional fluency in English is required. The expected compensation range is $130,000–$150,000 USD annually, with eligibility for commission, bonus, or other incentive compensation where applicable. Benefits and work arrangements vary by location and contract type; in-office, hybrid, or remote flexibility is listed.

Requirements

Extensive experience in strategy, management, business, or technology consulting, with a 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.
Intellectual curiosity and critical-thinking skills, including investigating root causes and respectfully challenging client thinking when appropriate.
Confidence engaging with senior executives, including C-suite leaders; ability to build trust, navigate complex stakeholder environments, and influence strategic decisions.
Commercial and business acumen, including connecting business goals to financial and operational outcomes, quantifying opportunities, building business cases, and discussing revenue, margin, cost, risk, and return on investment.
Empathy, creativity, judgment, and understanding of how people, organizations, and technology interact.
Curiosity about emerging technologies and hands-on experience using AI to enhance one’s work; understanding of AI’s potential value and limitations and ability to collaborate with technical teams.
Experience translating strategy into practical roadmaps, actionable recommendations, and measurable outcomes, and connecting business strategy with delivery.
Ability to test ideas, validate assumptions, develop tangible proof, thrive in ambiguity, work at pace, and balance 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, and interest in supporting their development.
Exceptional written and verbal communication, including distilling complex challenges into clear narratives and persuasively communicating recommendations.
Commitment to intellectual rigor, accuracy, quality, and recommendations that create meaningful client value.
Professional fluency in English.
Must reside in the United States.

Nice To Haves

No preferred qualifications are explicitly identified.

Responsibilities

Lead client engagements, shape opportunities, and define problems and solutions.
Own consulting workstreams and engagements end to end, with accountability for quality, timelines, budgets, and client outcomes.
Lead workshops and ask questions that uncover clients’ underlying goals and needs.
Identify underlying challenges, root causes, and opportunities, and guide clients toward high-value outcomes.
Define success with clients and translate goals into strategic priorities, actionable recommendations, and practical roadmaps.
Develop client strategies and strategic roadmaps grounded in business realities and measurable outcomes.
Evaluate strategic options across people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology, including AI where it can provide meaningful value.
Lead business case development, quantify opportunities, and present investment recommendations to client leadership and finance teams.
Coordinate with advisory, design, data, AI, and engineering teams to help translate strategies into tangible solutions.
Build trusted relationships with senior client decision-makers and understand their businesses, priorities, and evolving needs.
Identify additional opportunities for Exadel to deliver 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 evolve consulting frameworks, methodologies, and reusable approaches.
Help build and scale Exadel’s strategy consulting capabilities and influence how the company engages clients and delivers outcomes.
Mentor and coach consultants, developing their strategic thinking, problem-solving, and client leadership skills.

Benefits

Benefits programs may include comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; retirement savings programs; paid time off; paid holidays; and wellness or voluntary benefit programs, subject to plan terms and eligibility.
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.