Director of Design Strategy and Consulting

Charterhouse Partnership; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Charterhouse Partnership in Singapore is seeking a Director of Design Strategy & Business Development (Consultant) to shape client challenges into tangible, value-creating design and strategic outcomes.

You'll operate at the intersection of design thinking, strategy, and growth, collaborating with clients and internal teams to develop winning proposals, lead workshops, and translate insights into compelling narratives and commercial opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in design thinking or service design.
• Able to translate client problems into clear strategic approaches.
• Experience contributing to proposals, pitches, or business development.
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business development to create winning proposals and client narratives
• Engage with clients to translate business challenges into design opportunities
• Lead or support discovery workshops and client conversations
• Apply design thinking, service design, and research to develop blueprints and strategies
• Conduct customer, market, and trend research to uncover insights
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ideas into value
• Help scope engagements and articulate the business value of design
• Support pitches and new business development activities

Skills

Design thinking

Service design

Business development

Proposal development

Storytelling

Client relationships

Market research

Job description

Director of Design Strategy & Business Development (Consultant)

Are you a designer who thinks like a consultant? Someone who enjoys solving complex client problems, shaping strategy, and turning ideas into compelling solutions — while also having the commercial instinct to help win new business?

We're looking for a Design Strategy & Business Development Consultant to join our growing team.

This is not a traditional design role. You'll sit at the intersection of management consulting, design strategy, innovation, and business development — working with clients to understand their challenges, identify opportunities, and shape solutions that create tangible business value.

What you'll do

• Partner with business development teams to develop winning proposals, pitch decks, case studies and client narratives
• Engage directly with clients to understand their business challenges and translate them into design and innovation opportunities
• Lead or support discovery workshops, co-creation sessions and client conversations
• Apply design thinking, service design and research methodologies to develop experience maps, service blueprints and actionable strategies
• Conduct customer, market and trend research to uncover insights and strengthen our propositions
• Work closely with consultants, strategists, designers, AI and technology teams to take ideas from vision to value
• Help scope engagements, define approaches and articulate the business value of design
• Contribute to business development and sales activities — identifying opportunities, shaping propositions and supporting pitches

Who are we looking for?

You could come from design, management consulting, service design, innovation, research, or a related field.

More importantly, you are someone who:

• Has a strong grounding in design thinking, service design or design methodologies
• Can quickly understand a client's business problem and structure it into a clear approach
• Is comfortable moving between research, strategy, design and commercial conversations
• Has experience contributing to proposals, pitches, sales or business development
• Is a strong storyteller who can turn complex ideas into compelling presentations and narratives
• Can translate customer insights into practical, commercially relevant solutions
• Is confident working with senior stakeholders and building trusted client relationships
• Thrives in fast-moving environments where priorities can evolve
• Enjoys working collaboratively across consulting, design, technology and business development teams

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