Principal, Business Strategy
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Business strategy Principal leading transformation consulting for enterprises and growth-stage companies. Advising executives, driving business development, and shaping Cortico-X’s strategy practice.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain trust-based relationships with senior client stakeholders and advise C-suite and VP-level executives
- Own a personal business development target and lead the full sales process from origination through close
- Develop client-specific strategic insights and actionable recommendations that drive measurable outcomes
- Present findings, frameworks, and recommendations to executive audiences
- Build market-facing relationships and referral networks
- Lead discovery and visioning sessions
- Translate business objectives into strategy roadmaps, operating model blueprints, and phased delivery plans
- Design and reimagine business and operating models centered on customer and employee experience
- Develop governance frameworks and experience leadership models
- Lead experience portfolio planning and prioritization exercises
- Craft value cases and strategic narratives to align stakeholders and drive investment decisions
- Serve as Practice Area Leader for the Business Strategy vertical
- Partner with the Vice President on practice strategy, positioning, and go-to-market priorities
- Define and evolve methodologies, delivery frameworks, and internal playbooks
- Contribute to practice health reporting
- Develop change enablement strategies and define success metrics and governance structures
- Collaborate with data, design, and technology practitioners to translate strategy into delivery
- Facilitate workshops and alignment sessions
- Lead and mentor project teams, manage workstreams, allocate resources, and keep engagements within scope and budget
- Mentor Associate Principals and junior team members
- Contribute to internal capability building, knowledge sharing, and firm-wide practice development
Requirements:
- MBA or equivalent graduate business degree required
- 10+ years of experience in management consulting, business strategy, or experience-led transformation, including required tenure at a top-tier strategy firm (McKinsey, Bain, or BCG)
- 5+ years in senior client-facing advisory roles with demonstrated impact at the executive level
- Demonstrated, quantifiable business development results with clear ownership of origination through close
- Proven track record designing operating models, governance structures, or strategic roadmaps for complex organizations
- Strong strategic and business acumen; deep expertise in business and operating model design, organizational governance, and change management
- Strong leadership and project management skills; ability to manage teams, budgets, and competing priorities simultaneously
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong facilitation skills for workshops, alignment sessions, and strategic planning offsites
- Executive presence and credibility with senior leaders across functions
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action and impact
- Collaborative team leadership in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
- Intellectually curious with a strong point of view on the future of business transformation
- Genuine enthusiasm for meeting new people, building rapport, and initiating new relationships
Benefits:
- Fully remote with flexible work arrangements
- Competitive compensation including performance bonuses
- Strong benefits
- A clearly defined, accelerated path to broader practice leadership for strong performers
- Early exposure to practice-wide leadership, go-to-market strategy, and firm leadership partnership
- A front-row seat in building a new kind of experience transformation firm
- A collaborative, low-ego, high-performance culture
- Opportunities to shape strategy and make a tangible impact with clients
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