Strategy Manager – Digital and AI Strategist

Allata is a fast-growing technology strategy and data development consulting firm delivering scalable solutions to our enterprise clients. Our mission is to inspire our clients to achieve their most strategic goals through uncompromised delivery, active listening, and personal accountability. We are a group who thrive in fast-paced environments, working on complex problems, continually learning, and working alongside colleagues to be better together.

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Strategy Manager with strong digital strategy experience to join our growing management consulting team. The ideal candidate will be comfortable leading clients in the setting of robust digital and AI strategies, leveraging data to develop insights, and designing/refining operating models to boost business performance. This role sits at the crossroads of technology and business, requiring a collaborative and analytical approach along with a comfort discussing technology related topics through a business outcomes lens. This Strategy Manager role will engage with enterprise-class senior executive business and IT clients to advise them on direction, options evaluation, and outcomes realization as part of their high priority innovation and transformation journeys.

In this role, you will play a key leadership position over combined client and Allata teams, driving strategic direction, catalyzing creative and innovative thinking, and ensuring alignment with the client’s business objectives. A typical engagement will include aspects of Discovery, Insight Extraction, Hypothesis Development, Options Identification and Evaluation, Business and Technical Architecture Alignment, Roadmap Development, Business Case Development, and/or Executive Story Telling.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership in identifying and synthesizing current strategies, operational processes, and issues; creatively sharing learnings and insights via frameworks, spreadsheets, and presentations; and, prioritizing areas to address based on business impact and importance.
• Shape a clear understanding of desired outcomes, pain points, strategic guidelines, non-functional requirements (e.g., timeliness), analytical needs, and emerging or future requirements.
• Seek to understand, represent, and respond to the customer/user voice in all strategy and solutioning, subject to reasonable economics and market realities.
• Lead the development of innovative ideas and solutions from a business perspective, especially in the areas of digital and AI strategy, data and analytics, and operating models, based on pre-existing knowledge and experience, resourcefulness and research, and thoughtful analysis.
• Guide the project team in the shaping and delivery of a future-state with compelling business value.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, ensuring alignment between strategy and/or solution development and the client’s broader business strategy.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver work-products and final deliverables with tight and compelling storylines supported by relevant and thoughtful analysis.

Hard Skills - Must have:

• Proven expertise in digital strategy and business transformation initiatives.
• Comfort discussing AI, digital strategy, data & analytics, and operating model concepts with executives and team members with a market-relevant understanding of each, preferrably with real-world experience in each.
• Strong primary research skills, including interviewing senior stakeholders and synthesizing data into actionable insights.
• Experience in process analysis and improvement, with the ability to document and optimize workflows.
• Proficiency with analytical methods and spreadsheets.
• Comfort with developing and/or enhancing frameworks to convey a point or crystalize insights.

Soft Skills / Business Specific Skills:

• A critical thinking mindset with the ability to solve complex problems and think on your feet.
• Strong organizational and project management skills to oversee multiple workstreams.
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to inspire and align cross-functional teams.
• Previous experience in management consulting or a similar strategic role is highly desirable.
• Continuous lifelong learning orientation and an enthusiasm to drive self-development.

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