Strategy Insights & Planning Consultant

Strategy Insights & Planning Consultants deliver high-quality strategic solutions to clients across complex business challenges. Consultants combine structured problem solving, strategic thinking, strong project leadership, and client-facing communication skills to help organizations make better commercial decisions.

Consultants may work across multiple projects and business challenges, including commercial strategy, growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, marketing, customer strategy, and healthcare commercialization. As Consultants advance in their careers, they may develop deeper expertise within a particular industry, practice area, or client relationship.

What You’ll Do

• Lead commercial strategy and growth-focused client engagements, which may include go-to-market strategy, customer and marketing strategy, commercialization, market access, pricing, and other strategic business challenges.
• Own projects or major workstreams from end to end, including defining the approach, developing workplans, managing execution, synthesizing findings, and delivering recommendations to clients.
• Serve as a day-to-day client contact, building strong relationships and ensuring alignment across project teams and client stakeholders.
• Translate complex and ambiguous business problems into structured analyses, hypotheses, and actionable strategic recommendations.
• Facilitate client workshops, interviews, and working sessions, driving productive discussions and alignment with senior stakeholders.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop insights that inform commercial, growth, customer, marketing, and organizational strategies.
• Design and execute qualitative and quantitative analyses to test hypotheses and support strategic decision-making.
• Synthesize findings into clear, compelling recommendations and communicate them effectively to senior-level decision makers.
• Manage multiple priorities, project timelines, team activities, and deliverables while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Provide thought leadership and bring new ideas and perspectives to client engagements and practice areas.
• Leverage emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, to improve efficiency and support client problem solving.
• Participate in business development and contribute to internal firm initiatives.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.

What You’ll Bring

• MBA with a bachelor’s degree and a strong academic record in business, economics, marketing, psychology, physical or life sciences, engineering, applied mathematics, statistics, or a related field. Alternatively, candidates may possess a relevant PhD. In lieu of an MBA or PhD, 5–8+ years of relevant professional experience may substitute.
• 5–8+ years of experience in management consulting, commercial strategy, growth strategy, marketing strategy, commercialization, market access, or another project-based strategic environment.
• Demonstrated experience owning and delivering complex projects or major workstreams from initial problem definition through final recommendations and implementation planning.
• Strong project management capabilities, including experience managing timelines, workplans, stakeholders, team members, and multiple priorities.
• Experience working in a project-based environment where responsibilities extend beyond traditional PMO or project coordination activities.
• Strong strategic and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and develop practical recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to build client relationships and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading client workshops, presentations, interviews, and collaborative working sessions.
• Strong synthesis and storytelling skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear business recommendations.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to engage, influence, and challenge senior stakeholders.
• High degree of initiative, intellectual curiosity, and comfort learning new industries and business topics quickly.
• Strong client-service orientation and collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and other core business applications.
• Interest in and familiarity with AI technologies and their applications in business and consulting environments.
• Fluency in English.

Industry experience: Prior healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, commercialization, or market access experience is preferred but not required. Candidates without healthcare or pharmaceutical experience should bring strong management consulting and commercial strategy experience with a demonstrated ability to quickly learn new industries and client environments.

Preferred Attributes

• Self-motivated, highly engaged professional who thrives in a client-facing, collaborative consulting environment.
• Confident communicator who is comfortable leading conversations, facilitating groups, and building relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and asking thoughtful, probing questions.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new industries, business models, and commercial challenges.
• Experience across commercial strategy topics such as growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, customer strategy, marketing strategy, portfolio strategy, or commercialization.
• Healthcare or life sciences experience is a plus, particularly experience related to commercialization, market access, pricing, marketing, or broader commercial strategy.
• Interest in how AI and emerging technologies are transforming business strategy and decision-making.