Associate Strategy Consultant / Program Manager

Apogee Global RMS; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Apogee Global RMS is seeking a versatile Associate Strategy Consultant and Program Manager to support a 12-week engagement with a leading global institution from Phoenix. You will combine research, analysis, and drafting under the Engagement Lead, while also steering the schedule and milestones.

The role requires strong written communication, sharp quantitative skills, and the ability to coordinate stakeholders across the Discover, Diagnose, Design, and Deliver phases, with travel to Phoenix for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 2–4 years in strategy, management consulting, or comparable analytical role.
• Strong research, quantitative analysis, and business-writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Support stakeholder interviews during Week 1 onsite; capture and circulate findings.
• Design, administer, and analyze stakeholder/market survey.
• Conduct secondary market and competitive research; build current-state baseline.
• Contribute to three-region assessment and organizational-structure review.
• Draft findings and sections of the strategy document for Lead's review.

Skills

Research skills

Quantitative analysis

Business writing

Project coordination

Client-facing

Organization

Education

Bachelor's degree

2–4 years experience in strategy

Tools

Spreadsheets

Slides

Word processing

Job description

About the engagement:

Apogee Global RMS is delivering a focused, strategy engagement to help a leading global executive institution sharpen its competitive position and chart a three-to-five-year growth strategy. The work spans a competitive market analysis, a three-region assessment (North America, Europe, and Asia), an organizational-structure and resource review, and a board-ready strategy delivered to institutional leadership.

The engagement is led personally by the firm's Founder & Principal Advisor. We are seeking one capable, versatile professional to combine two supporting functions — hands-on strategy analysis and engagement program management — into a single role working directly alongside the Engagement Lead.

Role overview:

This is a dual role. Roughly three-quarters of your time is spent as an Associate Strategy Consultant — carrying a substantial share of the research, analysis, and drafting under the Lead's direction — and the balance as the engagement's Program Manager, owning the schedule, milestones, and coordination that keep a compressed 12-week engagement on track. You will own defined pieces of work end-to-end, with clear direction and review at each milestone.

Key responsibilities:

Strategy & analysis (Associate Strategy Consultant):

• Support stakeholder interviews during the Week 1 Phoenix onsite; capture, synthesize, and circulate findings.
• Design, administer, and analyze the stakeholder/market survey.
• Conduct secondary market and competitive research; build the current-state baseline.
• Contribute to the three-region assessment and the organizational-structure review.
• Draft findings, regional memos, and sections of the strategy document for the Lead's review and authorship.
• Prepare board-ready materials for the executive outbrief.

Program management:

• Own the engagement schedule and workplan across the twelve weeks and four phases (Discover, Diagnose, Design, Deliver).
• Track progress against the three client milestones — Current Market Review (~Week 4), Draft Strategy (~Week 10), and Final Delivery (~Week 12) — and flag risks early.
• Maintain action logs, status reporting, and version control; manage the engagement's document/data room.
• Coordinate working sessions, the mid-point review (~Week 7), and onsite logistics for both Phoenix trips.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 2–4 years (or equivalent) in strategy, management consulting, corporate strategy, or a comparable analytical role.
• Strong research, quantitative analysis, and business-writing skills; able to produce first drafts with light direction.
• Demonstrated project or program coordination — scheduling, milestone tracking, and stakeholder communication.
• Poised and credible in client-facing and executive settings.
• Highly organized, reliable, and self-directed under a compressed timeline.
• Proficiency with standard analysis and productivity tools (spreadsheets, slides, documents).
• Availability of ~15–20 hours per week for the full 12 weeks, and ability to travel to Phoenix twice.

Preferred qualifications:

• Exposure to higher education or executive global-market strategy, or go-to-market work.
• Familiarity with strategy frameworks and organizational assessment.
• Survey design and analysis experience.
• Formal project-management training (e.g., PMP or coursework) is a plus but not required.