Senior Strategy Consultant, Full-Time, Hybrid, MA

Schedule

What You'll Do

Summary/Objective:

This role plays a pivotal role in shaping and connecting the organization's objectives into clear actions. This role will collaborate cross-functionally to facilitate business unit strategy sessions, ensuring business unit and division plans alignment to the enterprise strategy. This role requires skills including strong collaboration, the ability to influence and lead through indirect relationships, self-starter and is comfortable working independently.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead and facilitate structured strategy/business planning workshops across all organizational levels, from operational teams to Executive Leadership.
• Collect performance metrics from business units, review trends, identify areas requiring attention, and interpret results for strategic/business planning.
• Conduct research on market dynamics, industry trends, benchmarks, and competitive landscape to inform strategic recommendations.
• Knowledge of strategy development tools, techniques and approaches
  Assess the appropriate approach to elicit decisions to form and revise strategies.
• Synthesize quantitative data and qualitative inputs into actionable hypotheses, strategic priorities, and recommendations.
• Interact confidently with stakeholders at all levels; question norms, test assumptions, and build credibility via constructive challenge and influence.
• Translate complex findings into compelling narrative presentations, reports, and executive summaries-suitable for varied audiences including senior leadership.
• Navigate Ambiguity & Drive Action while thriving in environments with shifting priorities, define clarity from uncertainty, and drive strategic alignment and execution.
• Working with leaders, form OKR's and the appropriate monitoring process to ensure progress to strategic plans
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned or requested.

Complies with regulatory compliance and assigned training requirements

What You'll Need

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or advanced education in Business, Finance, Strategy, or related field
• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business planning, operations, finance or related roles.
• Knowledge, understanding and use of strategic frameworks, tools, and processes.
• Self starter who is Intellectually curious and a continuous learner who stays on top of market and sector trends.
• Critical thinking with the ability to make the complex simple
• Analytical, data-driven mindset with comfort in Excel, PowerPoint, Word and other common tools.
• Strong facilitation, influencing, and moderation capabilities.

Additional Eligibility Requirements:

• Strategic thinker with execution focus; ownership mentality with knowledge and experience working with strategic frameworks
• Tolerance for ambiguity and decisiveness under uncertainty.
• Intellectual curiosity and ability to connect dots across disparate data.
• Confident, credible presence; ability to work collaboratively and push back when needed.
• Highly adaptable-and comfortable learning quickly.
• Able to form trusting relationships
• Embraces diversity and open to varying styles and points of views.

What We Do

DCU is the largest credit union headquartered in New England - serving more than one million members in all 50 states. With over 1,700 team members, we strive to make DCU a great place to work with an excellent work-life balance and a community that cares.

DCU is an equal-opportunity employer, and we value diversity, inclusion, and equity at our company. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

If you're applying for a job and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to career@dcu.org and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

DCU is not currently offering Visa transfer/ sponsorship for this position.