[Hiring] Lead Strategy Consultant @Exadel

Role Description

You will be joining the growing UK arm (London-based) of our US-based Advisory business, where you will help shape the direction of the practice and execute our ambitious plans to scale our strategy consulting capabilities.

As a Lead Strategy Consultant, you will act as a trusted advisor and front door to Exadel, where you'll work directly with senior client leaders, often at the C-suite level, helping them clarify their business goals, uncover opportunities, challenge assumptions, and define the outcomes that matter most.

You'll help clients set strategies that evaluate the right combination of people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology to achieve their goals. This may involve:

• Improving business performance
• Developing new capabilities
• Addressing operational challenges
• Enabling broader transformation

Once the strategy is defined, you'll work alongside our broader delivery teams to help turn strategic direction into tangible outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Lead client engagements, shaping opportunities, Problems & Solutions
• Own consulting workstreams and engagements end-to-end, accountable for quality, timelines, budgets, and client outcomes.
• Lead workshops, asking thoughtful, sometimes challenging questions to uncover what clients are truly trying to achieve.
• Identify underlying challenges, root causes, and opportunities that may not be immediately apparent.
• Help clients define what success looks like and translate their goals into strategic priorities, actionable recommendations, and practical roadmaps.
• Develop client strategies and own strategic roadmaps grounded in business realities and focused on measurable outcomes.
• Evaluate strategic options across people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology.
• Lead business case development, quantify opportunities, and confidently present investment recommendations to client leadership and finance teams.
• Work with Exadel's broader advisory, design, data, AI, and engineering teams to ensure strategies can be translated into tangible solutions.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client decision-makers, developing a deep understanding of their business, priorities, and evolving needs.
• Recognize emerging challenges and opportunities where Exadel can deliver additional value.
• Support proposals, pitches, business cases, and solution development for new opportunities.
• Contribute to thought leadership that helps organizations navigate evolving business challenges.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of consulting frameworks, methodologies, and reusable approaches.
• Help build and scale our strategy consulting capabilities.
• Mentor and coach other consultants, strengthening their strategic thinking, problem-solving, and client leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in strategy, management, business, or technology consulting.
• The ability to enter client conversations without a predefined problem or solution.
• A natural instinct to ask questions, dig beneath the surface, and understand what truly matters to clients.
• Confidence engaging directly with senior executives, including C-suite leaders.
• The ability to connect business goals to financial and operational outcomes.
• Strong empathy, creativity, judgment, and an understanding of how people, organizations, and technology interact.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies and hands-on experience using AI.
• Experience translating strategic direction into practical roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Comfortable moving beyond presentations to test ideas and validate assumptions.
• Experience assessing organizational capabilities, business processes, governance, and operating models.
• Experience managing, mentoring, or coaching consultants.
• The ability to distill complex business challenges into clear, compelling narratives.
• A commitment to intellectual rigor, accuracy, quality, and delivering thoughtful recommendations.

Requirements

• Professional fluency in English.
• Location: Philadelphia, Tampa, Chicago or Dallas/Austin - United States.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings programs.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• Wellness or voluntary benefit programs.