Associate Strategy Consultant / Program Manager

About the engagement

The company 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.

Requirements

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.

Benefits

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