Senior Strategy and Business Development Consultant

Compeer Financial • Lakeville, MN

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position serves as a senior individual contributor within Compeer’s Strategy and Innovation team. You will lead high-stakes strategic initiatives and workstreams that span enterprise strategy, business development, and innovation. Partners directly with senior leaders to define market opportunities, evaluate new business models, and develop actionable strategies to accelerate growth. Plays a central role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing business development opportunities; including new ventures, strategic partnerships, and potential investments or acquisitions. Contributes to the design and assessment of innovation initiatives that strengthen Compeer’s position as a leader in rural finance and agricultural services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, human centered or product design or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Advanced-level experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, innovation, business development, or corporate development, required.
• Proven ability to lead multi-faceted strategy projects and assess commercial opportunities.
• Advanced experience from top consulting firms, corporate strategy groups, or innovation-focused business roles.
• Comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, and external market engagement.
• Advanced ability to design approaches to ambiguous problems and lead through structured frameworks.
• Advanced ability to synthesizes complex findings into persuasive, high-quality documents and presentations tailored to senior audiences.
• Advanced understanding of how to evaluate and quantify new market opportunities, product ideas, partnerships, and investments.
• Experience conducting due diligence, analyzing partner fit, or building business cases.
• Advanced financial and market analysis capabilities, including Excel modeling, market sizing, and customer segmentation.
• Brings a general management mindset and is comfortable weighing tradeoffs across customer, financial, operational, and strategic factors.
• Demonstrated ability to assess or incubate new business ideas.
• Understands how to balance desirability, feasibility, and viability of emerging concepts.
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
• Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or equivalent experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Strategy Project Leadership: Leads multi-workstream projects or owns complex strategic challenges (e.g., customer strategy, transformation roadmap, pricing innovation, partnership modeling). Defines problem structure, analytical framework, workplan, and cross-functional engagement model. Delivers client-ready materials and briefings that influence enterprise decisions and actions.
• Business Development, Innovation and Partnership Evaluation: Identifies and assesses new growth opportunities, including new product offerings, market adjacencies, and emerging customer segments. Supports due diligence and opportunity evaluation for strategic partnerships, venture investments, or M&A opportunities. Develops business cases, partner analyses, and commercial risk assessments to guide leadership decision-making. Collaborates with cross-functional teams (Innovation, Finance, Legal, Product) to vet, pilot, and scale select innovation and partnership initiatives.
• Strategic Planning and Enterprise Alignment: Facilitates planning processes for business units or functional areas, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and execution plans. Helps connect planning activities to resource allocation, financial forecasting, and key performance indicators. Contributes to internal frameworks and tools that support strategic clarity and prioritization.
• Engagement and Development: Influences senior-level stakeholders through compelling storytelling, logic, and data-backed recommendations. Mentors junior team members; provide feedback on structuring, problem-solving, and deliverables. Serves as a trusted peer to senior leaders and support overall team effectiveness and impact.

Benefits

• Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior