VP, Strategy Consulting

Chadwick Martin Bailey Inc.•Boston, MA

3d•$180,000 - $200,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The VP, Strategy Consulting is a client-facing executive responsible for leading CMB's insights-powered and growth-focused consulting practice, expanding the firm's role beyond serving Insights leaders to advising senior marketing, strategy, innovation, and business leaders. This person will build and lead a consulting team to address complex growth, customer, marketing, innovation, and competitive challenges. This position reports to the SVP of Growth Strategy. The primary responsibility is building and leading a consulting practice of cross-disciplinary strategists who transform our strategic insights and activation work along with our AI+HI solutions into integrated decision guidance and implementation advisory services. This role partners closely with Growth, Research, Analytics, and Industry Practice Leaders to shape opportunities from the earliest business conversations through implementation. The VP also serves as visible external leader for CMB by building relationships with senior executives, leading strategic pursuits, and establishing CMB as a distinctive insights-powered growth consultancy. This role can be hybrid in Boston or remote in the US.

Requirements

15+ years of consulting and executive advisory experience for enterprise growth clients.
Experience building consulting practices, solutions, or multidisciplinary teams.
Experience integrating research, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, activation, implementation, and strategy.
Strong executive facilitation, communication, commercial, and stakeholder management skills.
Solid understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing colleagues while leading through influence in a collaborative environment.
Curiosity about markets, consumer behavior, business strategy, and emerging technologies, including AI, with a commitment to continuous learning and innovation.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree in Business, Strategy, Economics, Organizational Leadership, Design, Public Policy, or related field preferred.
Experience in Travel & Hospitality, Technology & Platforms, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Retail and/or Healthcare is valuable but not required

Responsibilities

Lead CMB's Strategy & Decision Enablement Practice
Define the vision, operating model, consulting frameworks, quality standards, and talent strategy for the Strategy Consulting function.
Build and grow a strategy team within a highly collaborative culture.
Introduce and institutionalize new strategy and decision-enablement capabilities across CMB, equipping internal teams to understand the value of these consulting services.
Ensure our multi-disciplinary growth strategy consultants enable decisions and deliver client impacts.
Create a clear bridge from CMB's research, analytics, and AI capabilities to higher-value integrated strategic advisory engagements.
Serve as CMB's Executive Strategic Advisor
Advise executive clients on growth, customer, innovation, competitive, and organizational decisions.
Work with Activation team members to build decision frameworks that simplify ambiguity and align stakeholders.
Coach your team to translate complex evidence into highly impactful executive-ready recommendations and strategic implementation guidance.
Help our account leaders identify broader business challenges where our capabilities can create greater impact.
Drive Growth & Market Presence
Expand executive relationships beyond traditional Insights organizations.
Develop scalable advisory offerings and serve as a thought leader.
Represent CMB in executive presentations, conferences, and strategic discussions.
Recruit and mentor diverse, cross-disciplinary consulting talent and external experts.