Senior Lead Strategy & Planning Consultant

Wells Fargo•Irving, TX

1d•$159,000 - $305,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo’s Consumer Banking & Lending (CBL) is seeking a Senior Lead Strategy and Planning Consultant for its Digital Strategy team. This senior individual contributor will shape strategy across a portfolio of highly complex digital priorities and advise senior leadership on product direction, investment choices, and long-term plans. The role partners across product, design, technology, data, risk, and business teams to translate enterprise opportunities into clear strategies, requirements, and scalable solutions that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes. The role is suited to an expert strategy leader who can independently address ambiguous, enterprise-level challenges, apply advanced analytical and inductive thinking, and influence decisions across multiple areas. The Senior Lead provides vision, direction, and expertise to senior leaders while coordinating complex work and guiding professionals across the organization. It is a hybrid position based in one of the listed locations and may require travel up to 10% of the time.

Requirements

7+ years of Strategy and Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination of these.

Nice To Haves

Top-tier consulting experience.
Deep experience developing digital strategy and requirements for large-scale platforms, products, or portfolios with significant business and customer impact.
Expert strategic, analytical, and structured thinking skills, including framing ambiguous problems, evaluating complex tradeoffs, and developing long-term solutions.
Demonstrated ability to advise senior leadership, influence enterprise decisions, and build alignment across multiple functions without relying on direct authority.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including translating complex business and technical topics into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
Experience leading highly complex, cross-organizational initiatives involving product, design, engineering, data, analytics, operations, risk, and control partners.
Ability to coordinate complex activities and provide direction, coaching, and subject-matter guidance to professionals and managers.
Experience in financial services, banking, or another highly regulated industry.
Experience using customer insights, performance data, market trends, and emerging capabilities, including AI or advanced analytics, to inform digital product strategy.

Responsibilities

Advise senior leadership on developing and influencing digital, data, and AI products, initiatives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for complex business and technical needs.
Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple functional areas or the enterprise.
Develop long-term, large-scale solutions using vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and sound judgment.
Synthesize customer insights, market trends, business performance, data, and platform considerations into clear strategies and requirements that shape priorities.
Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leaders on significant business plans, programs, and initiatives with broad organizational impact.
Build alignment with professionals and managers across product, design, engineering, data, analytics, operations, risk, and control functions.
Coordinate complex cross-functional activities, clarify decision points, and guide others to accelerate execution and resolve obstacles.
Create and deliver executive-ready recommendations, decision materials, roadmaps, and success measures for senior leadership, often under tight timelines and with evolving inputs.
Serve as an expert advisor and visible thought leader, strengthening digital product management practices and influencing enterprise priorities without direct people-management accountability.
Fulfill applicable risk program and compliance responsibilities, including following policies and procedures, escalating and remediating issues, and making sound risk decisions.