Strategic Advisor

XTEL • Leuven, EUROPE

1d

About The Position

XTEL is hiring a Strategic Advisor for X-Steps, its dedicated global Business Consulting Department. The role embeds business expertise into client engagements alongside technical implementation teams, helping top-tier consumer packaged goods (CPG) clients turn software deployments into measurable commercial impact. X-Steps focuses on commercial value creation across Revenue Growth Management (RGM) and Trade Promotion Management (TPM), including pricing, trade terms, promotional ROI, assortment, and optimized promotional strategies.

The Strategic Advisor drives day-to-day execution across the engagement phases: Market Connect, Data Review/UAT, Super-User Training, and Value Extraction workshops. The position serves as the operational bridge between client business teams and technical leads, ensuring software configuration reflects clients’ commercial strategies and user needs. The advisor also enables end users to interpret analytical use cases and supports clients in realizing profitable revenue growth and long-term value.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in business consulting, category management, trade marketing, RGM, TPM, or commercial analytics within CPG or software advisory.
• Analytical problem-solving skills and excellent facilitation and training skills.
• Comfort handling client data, challenging technical setups, and translating software outputs into actionable commercial insights.
• Strong understanding of CPG commercial dynamics, pricing, promotions, and category management.

Responsibilities

• Understand clients’ CPG business goals in RGM and TPM, including pricing, trade terms, promotional ROI, and assortment, and translate them into platform requirements.
• Run market connect sessions during project kick-offs to align software setup with clients’ commercial strategies and KPIs.
• Act as the internal client and sparring partner for technical implementation teams, challenging deployments to ensure they are pragmatic, relevant, and aligned with user needs.
• Deliver hands-on super-user training using client market data and build client-specific business recipes to help end users independently run and interpret analytical use cases.
• Facilitate commercial business sprints, guiding clients from their first analytical run toward profitable revenue growth and long-term value realization.
• Drive day-to-day execution of Market Connect, Data Review/UAT, Super-User Training, and Value Extraction workshops.
• Serve as the primary operational bridge between client business teams and technical leads.

Benefits

• Hybrid or full remote working set-up
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary package and bonus scheme
• Opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the organization’s growth and development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed