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About the Role

You will join the growing UK arm (London-based) of our US-based Advisory business, helping to shape the direction of the practice and execute ambitious plans to scale strategy consulting capabilities. As a Lead Strategy Consultant, you will act as a trusted advisor and front door to Exadel, working directly with senior client leaders, often at the C-suite level, to help them clarify business goals, uncover opportunities, challenge assumptions, and define outcomes. Consulting begins with curiosity, asking the right questions, understanding client challenges, and looking beyond initial requests to determine ultimate goals. You'll help clients set strategies evaluating people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology to achieve goals, potentially improving performance, developing capabilities, addressing challenges, or enabling transformation. You will work alongside delivery teams to turn strategic direction into tangible outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead client engagements, shaping opportunities, problems & solutions.
Own consulting workstreams and engagements end-to-end, accountable for quality, timelines, budgets, and client outcomes.
Lead workshops, asking thoughtful, sometimes challenging questions to uncover what clients are truly trying to achieve.
Identify underlying challenges, root causes, and opportunities that may not be immediately apparent.
Help clients define success and translate goals into strategic priorities, actionable recommendations, and practical roadmaps.
Develop client strategies and own strategic roadmaps grounded in business realities and focused on measurable outcomes.
Evaluate strategic options across people, processes, operating models, experiences, data, and technology, including AI.
Lead business case development, quantify opportunities, and present investment recommendations to client leadership.
Work with Exadel's broader advisory, design, data, AI, and engineering teams to ensure strategies translate into tangible solutions.
Build trusted relationships with senior client decision-makers.
Recognize emerging challenges and opportunities where Exadel can deliver additional value.
Support proposals, pitches, business cases, and solution development for new opportunities.
Contribute to thought leadership that helps organizations navigate evolving business challenges and opportunities.
Contribute to the development and evolution of consulting frameworks, methodologies, and reusable approaches.
Help build and scale strategy consulting capabilities.
Mentor and coach other consultants, strengthening their strategic thinking, problem-solving, and client leadership skills.

Requirements

Strong consulting experience: Extensive experience in strategy, management, business, or technology consulting, with a proven track record of leading client engagements and influencing senior stakeholders.
Strategic leadership and opportunity shaping: Ability to enter client conversations without a predefined problem or solution, uncover opportunities, challenge assumptions, and guide clients toward the right strategic direction and business outcomes.
Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking: Natural instinct to ask questions, dig beneath the surface, investigate root causes, and understand what truly matters to clients.
Executive presence and stakeholder leadership: Confidence engaging directly with senior executives, building trust, navigating complex stakeholder environments, and influencing strategic decisions.
Commercial and business acumen: Ability to connect business goals to financial and operational outcomes, quantify opportunities, build credible business cases, and discuss revenue, margin, cost, risk, and return on investment.
Human-centered thinking: Strong empathy, creativity, judgment, and understanding of how people, organizations, and technology interact.
AI and technology fluency: Curiosity about emerging technologies and hands-on experience using AI to enhance work. Understanding where AI can create value and its limitations.
Strategy through execution: Experience translating strategic direction into practical roadmaps, actionable recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
Builder mindset: Comfortable moving beyond presentations to test ideas, validate assumptions, and develop tangible proof. Thrives in ambiguity, works at pace, and balances hands-on contribution with leading from the front.
Business and operating model understanding: Experience assessing organizational capabilities, business processes, governance, and operating models.
People leadership: Experience managing, mentoring, or coaching consultants.
Exceptional communication: Ability to distill complex business challenges into clear, compelling narratives and communicate recommendations persuasively.
High standards and accountability: Commitment to intellectual rigor, accuracy, quality, and delivering thoughtful recommendations that create meaningful client value.
Professional fluency in English.

Skills

Strategy consulting
Management consulting
Business consulting
Technology consulting
Client engagement leadership
Stakeholder influence
Opportunity shaping
Critical thinking
Executive presence
Commercial acumen
Business acumen
Human-centered design
AI and technology fluency
Strategy execution
Roadmap development
Business case development
Operating model assessment
People leadership
Mentoring
Coaching
Communication
Problem-solving

Location

Philadelphia, United States
Tampa, United States
Chicago, United States
Dallas, United States
Austin, United States

Work Type

In-office
Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Lead

Salary/Compensations

$130,000–$150,000 USD annually

Benefits

Eligibility for commission, bonus, or other incentive compensation
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Life and disability insurance
Retirement savings programs
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Wellness programs
Voluntary benefit programs
International projects
Recognition program
Ongoing learning & reimbursement
Team events & local benefits
Sports compensation
Referral bonuses
Top-tier equipment provision

About the Company

AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership.
2,000+ team members and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients.
Partners with enterprise leaders to solve complex business challenges, unlock opportunities, and build what's next.
People are ambitious, collaborative, curious, and constantly evolving.
Culture leads with trust, respect, and purpose, fostering open dialogue, creative freedom, and mentorship.
A culture where ideas are challenged, voices are heard, and impact matters.

Equal Opportunity

Exadel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion across minority, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and more.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
We are committed to providing accommodations throughout the recruitment process in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable federal, state, and local accessibility laws.
Reasonable accommodations are available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.