Consultant, Business Strategy (12-Month Contract)

Jackman Reinvents; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Consultant in Business Strategy to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with senior leadership to define impactful business strategies and uncover actionable insights. Your analytical skills will be put to the test as you synthesize data and translate findings into compelling narratives. With a vibrant and diverse team, you'll enjoy a culture that values creativity and collaboration. This position promises not only professional growth but also the chance to make a real impact on the future of businesses while enjoying a flexible and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation with annual cash bonus

Sabbatical

Birthdays off

Wellness offerings

Flexible working arrangements

Internal development and training

Financial support for external opportunities

Weekly socials

Awesome team events

Bring your dog to work

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in consulting or corporate strategy.
• Strong interest in customer behavior and its business implications.

Responsibilities

• Help partners define future strategies and offerings.
• Create financial models to support business visions.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Quantitative Focus

Job description

Role.

Consultant, Business Strategy.

Jackman’s strategy team specializes in defining breakthrough business and brand strategies to drive outsized consumer relevance and value creation. Working directly and collaboratively with the most senior leadership teams at our Engagement Partners, the strategy team plays a critical role in defining the future of businesses and the best path to get there, fast. The team is expert at generating actionable human insights, analyzing industry and company performance and dynamics, designing and conducting in-depth customer research, facilitating challenging and transformational conversations with business leaders, shaping compelling and relevant strategies and business models, having a lot of fun along the way.

What You’ll Do.

You will play a vital and central role in every engagement by:

1. Helping our partners define their future – You will help uncover actionable insights to define meaningful offerings for customers and new opportunities for businesses.
2. Making that future a reality – Whether it’s creating comprehensive financial models to quantify what’s possible or standing up a brand-defining store, you will be critical in ensuring our partners’ long-term visions are fulfilled.

What You’ll Gain.

1. Skills/Experience in a Variety of Disciplines – In order to build and action on bold strategies, you’ll get to collaborate with and learn from all of our deep subject matter experts.
2. Exposure to Senior Leadership Teams – When you become a Reinventionist, you’re trusted to collaborate with Senior Leadership Teams and have your ideas heard.
3. Make a Real Impact – Through all our work, you’ll be the storyteller. Translating the analysis, insights, learnings, and hypotheses into concise and compelling narratives for a variety of audiences – front-line to senior leadership, market analysts and shareholders all the way to end-consumers.

Why We’re Excited About You.

• You have at least 2-3 years of relevant work experience (e.g., in consulting, corporate strategy development, customer experience design, marketing communications).
• You have a bachelor’s degree with a business or quantitative focus.
• You have a strong interest in and love to learn about customer behaviour and its implications on business strategy.
• You have a strong intellectual curiosity about people and things – how they work and what else is possible.

You’ve Got Skills:

• You have excellent analytical skills and are comfortable with Excel and PowerPoint.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Your organizational skills are next level, but while you love the details, you are still able to see the big picture.

You’re Able To:

• Synthesize large sets of data and surface meaningful insights.
• Collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced, team environment.
• Find freedom in a blank page.
• Use a hypothesis-driven approach when tackling complex problems, uncovering solutions, and translating those solutions into tangible action plans.
• Use equal parts thinking and action in your work.

We encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, even if you think you’re this close to meeting all the criteria. We understand that experience is multi-faceted and varied – unique and new backgrounds are best for bold and imaginative thinking.

Why You’ll Love Working at Jackman.

We're a diverse team: strategists, creative directors, marketers, graphic designers, architects, research analysts, writers, IT wizards, user experience designers and digital analytics experts. We're also bakers, marathon runners, coffee roasters, dog lovers, thrill-seekers, bookworms, business owners, treasure hunters, musicians and oyster shuckers.

We love tackling big challenges, sharing what’s new over Slack spam, and hanging out with one another. Here are some of the other things people love about Jackman:

• Competitive compensation including annual cash bonus opportunity.
• Benefits and perks include sabbatical, birthdays off, wellness offerings and plenty of others.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Internal development and training plus financial support for external opportunities.
• Weekly socials and awesome team events.
• HQ in downtown Toronto with waterfront views.
• Wear what you like to work…within reason.
• Bring your dog to work.

At Jackman, we are committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and accessible. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all applicants for employment without discrimination. Please let us know if accommodation for the recruitment/interview process is required and we will work with you to make sure your needs are met.