Strategy & Operations Associate

Apptronik

About The Position

The Strategy & Operations Associate is a high-potential generalist on Apptronik’s Customer Transformation & Deployments (CTD) team, which owns commercial strategy, transformation and deployments, pricing, competitive insights, and market expansion. The role serves as an analytical resource for urgent business problems: structuring questions from first principles, conducting analysis, and delivering recommendations that inform pricing, deals, and strategy. It is designed as a development role, with a path to leading a vertical and broad executive exposure. The associate rotates across one primary and one support vertical, reassessed quarterly, to build experience across insights, pricing, delivery, healthcare, and strategy.

Requirements

2–4 years of experience in management consulting (Associate to Senior Associate), strategy and operations, BizOps, finance, or a comparable analytical role.
First-principles thinking, including the ability to structure ambiguous problems, build models from scratch, and pressure-test assumptions.
Strong quantitative skills, including advanced Excel or Sheets.
Ability to produce executive-ready materials and clear recommendations.
Exposure to pricing, market sizing, competitive analysis, or customer transformation.
Self-starter comfortable switching context and influencing without authority.

Nice To Haves

SQL or business intelligence experience.
Interest in healthcare, manufacturing, or logistics.
AI or robotics experience.

Responsibilities

Build models and fact bases for pricing and deal economics, ROI and business cases, market sizing, and use case prioritization.
Structure ambiguous questions into hypotheses, test them with data, and deliver clear, actionable recommendations.
Maintain data templates and KPI tracking so insights are repeatable across engagements.
Flex across commercial strategy, deal analysis, pricing, and competitive insights based on business priorities.
Own discrete workstreams end-to-end, such as competitor profiles, pricing inputs, and healthcare value chain mapping.
Connect cross-vertical patterns to sharpen decisions across the Customer Transformation team.
Support engagements and transformation-led sales cycles with analysis, value sizing, and KPI definition.
Prepare leadership and board content, track quarterly KPIs, and flag risks early.
Feed engagement learnings into playbooks, pricing, and competitive intelligence.
Rotate across one primary and one support vertical, reassessed quarterly, to build range across insights, pricing, delivery, healthcare, and strategy.