Head of Strategy

seek.com.au; Sydney; On-site; AUD 210,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Oasis Partners is seeking a client-facing strategic advisor to work with business owners generating $5M–$150M in revenue, delivering fixed-scope engagements to diagnose current position and identify next steps for growth, succession planning or exit readiness. You will scope the brief, lead the engagement, and deliver a clear, right-sized recommendation.

About 70% of your time will be client-facing; the remaining 30% leads the digital marketing function and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in management consulting, corporate strategy or advisory work.
• Comfort analysing and interpreting financial statements and corporate documents of mid-sized businesses.
• Able to present recommendations directly to owners of mid-sized businesses.
• Self-starter with ability to run several concurrent workstreams with minimal oversight.
• Tech fluent with AI tools and MS365, Salesforce, and WordPress.

Responsibilities

• Lead client strategy projects end-to-end through BD, Onboarding, Analysis, Workshop Hosting, and Reporting.
• Evolve the Strategy Practice including client proposition, fee structures, strategy product development, AI tooling.
• Translate the firm’s 5-year strategy into a measurable marketing plan using the CRM database and hold delivery partners to account.
• Support internal change management initiatives to improve data governance for marketing and embed AI-driven processes.

Skills

Client-facing advisory

Strategic planning

Executive communication

Financial analysis

Project leadership

Tools

Microsoft 365

Salesforce

WordPress

Job description

This is a client-facing strategic advisory role where approximately 70% of your time will be spent serving and leading owners of businesses generating $5M~$150M in revenue through short, sharp, fixed-scope strategic engagements: diagnosing where a business stands across core pillars and what needs to happen next - whether that's growth, succession planning, or exit readiness (feeding Oasis' sell-side advisory pipeline).

You will scope the brief, run the engagement, and deliver a clear, right-sized recommendation. The remaining 30% of your time is split between leading the digital marketing function as a defined project (setting direction and commissioning specialists, not doing every task yourself) and contributing to internal AI and productivity initiatives.

You will sit in the Leadership Group from day one.

Key responsibilities

Lead client strategy projects end-to-end through BD (where required), Onboarding, Analysis, Workshop Hosting, and Reporting

Lead the evolution of the Strategy Practice including the client proposition for the BD process, approach and frameworks, strategy product development, fee structures, and AI tooling

Translate the firm's 5-year strategy into a clear, measurable marketing plan which leverages the rich CRM database, and hold the plan and its delivery partners to account

Support internal change management initiatives in support of improving internal data governance for marketing purposes and embedding AI-driven processes into ways of working

About you

Capable: Proven experience in management consulting, corporate strategy or advisory work, consulting directly to business owners and/or executive boards

Financially fluent: comfort analysing and interpreting Financial Statements and Corporate Documents of mid-sized businesses

Confident communicator: able to present recommendations directly to owners of mid-sized businesses

Self-starter: comfortable running several concurrent workstreams with minimal oversight

Tech fluent: self-sufficient across AI tools, all MS365 applications, Salesforce, and WordPress

Bonus: exposure to M&A, transaction advisory, or midmarket businesses

About us

Oasis Partners has spent over 40 years advising the owners of established private businesses on strategy, commercials and succession.