Top Strategy Jobs in Chicago, IL

Develops data-driven audience strategies for paid media across digital channels. Responsibilities include audience activation, segmentation, taxonomy management, delivery monitoring, campaign performance analysis, troubleshooting, marketing technology enhancement, vendor management, privacy compliance, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also mentors colleagues, develops best practices, supports testing initiatives, and presents technical and strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Leads channel strategy and execution for QSR, chain, and convenience-store segments. Develops growth plans, customer prioritization frameworks, execution calendars, budgets, and commercial insights. Partners cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Supply Chain, R&D, and Culinary to deliver customer solutions and improve marketplace performance. Manages and develops a high-performing team while supporting strategic customer partnerships and commercial governance.

Leads strategic analysis and product innovation for Capital One’s Consumer and Developer Experience organization. Responsibilities include answering complex strategic questions, leading AI transformation initiatives, conducting analytics and market assessments, setting long-term product vision, developing prototypes with engineering, building stakeholder relationships, and advancing organizational capabilities through training and AI adoption.

Leads strategy, commercial operations, marketing, business development, client proposals, market analysis, and go-to-market execution for Tempus’ Life Science Sequencing/CDx business. Partners with biopharma, academic, commercial, medical, product, regulatory, and laboratory teams; builds scalable customer processes; manages strategic projects; and coaches associate-level employees.

Leads corporate strategy consulting engagements for technology-sector clients, including market analysis, competitive research, business performance reviews, strategic recommendations, operating model improvements, and value realization. Manages client accounts, project plans, deliverables, and cross-functional workstreams while mentoring consulting teams. Presents findings to executive stakeholders and applies digital, analytics, and AI-enabled methods to support growth, cost optimization, productivity, and transformation initiatives.

Supports paid media and in-branch brand campaigns for Chase Business Banking. Responsibilities include developing campaign briefs, coordinating agencies and internal stakeholders, monitoring pacing, optimizing campaigns, reporting performance, translating media data into recommendations, developing local market strategies, reviewing documentation, and managing invoicing and business cases. The role requires strong marketing strategy, paid media, project management, communication, analytical, and collaboration skills, with travel up to 25%.

Leads enterprise talent strategy and planning across succession, leadership assessment, workforce planning, skills strategy, and performance management. Builds data-informed, scalable talent practices; partners with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Learning, Finance, and executives; strengthens leadership pipelines and workforce readiness; and drives skills-based talent transformation. Uses AI and HR technology to improve talent insights, decision-making, processes, and manager enablement across a global, matrixed organization.

Leads business development GTM strategy and planning across channels. Designs territory, targeting, prioritization, pipeline, and coverage models; establishes CRM operating standards; analyzes market potential, competitors, conversion, and offer performance; and translates insights into sales playbooks, goals, and investment recommendations. Partners with Sales, Marketing, Product, Pricing, Analytics, and channel leaders to improve pipeline conversion, develop segment value propositions, and coordinate co-selling and channel execution.

The Senior Strategy Analyst leads strategy and execution for crypto brokerage, stablecoin funding, and tokenized asset offerings. Responsibilities include defining product requirements, operating processes, client workflows, and roadmap recommendations; researching markets, regulations, competitors, and emerging products; coordinating with vendors, custodians, legal counsel, and compliance teams; supporting operational setup; and representing the company with clients and industry stakeholders.

Leads testing strategy and planning for core banking transformation programs. Defines test scope, timelines, scenarios, cases, and traceability across system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing. Coordinates teams, environments, test data, defect triage, readiness, and remediation activities. Reviews outcomes, manages delivery risks, coaches testing professionals, and supports client-facing engagement delivery.

Lead development and execution of testing strategies for core banking platform transformations. Manage test case generation and execution, leverage automation testing, collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve defects, implement QA best practices, analyze test results, oversee documentation compliance, coach team members, and align testing objectives with business goals to drive continuous improvement.

Lead TruIQ’s global product and AI strategy, developing a three-to-five-year roadmap spanning products, markets, technology, and business priorities. Drive international expansion planning, AI product opportunities, portfolio alignment, executive reporting, financial modeling, investment prioritization, and strategic storytelling. Partner with product, engineering, data science, technology, and international teams to align roadmaps and influence senior stakeholders across a complex global organization.

Leads pricing, promotions, and revenue management strategy consulting projects for commercial clients. Analyzes market trends, customer behavior, forecasting, and business performance to develop pricing, monetization, and revenue growth recommendations. Presents executive-level findings, guides teams through ambiguity, manages client relationships, validates recommendations, and coaches team members. Requires a bachelor’s degree and at least seven years of professional services or strategy consulting experience.

Leads strategy, product vision, roadmaps, and execution for custom AI products developed with Life Sciences partners. Manages the full lifecycle from ideation and proof of concept through development, launch, commercialization, and post-market evaluation. Partners with medical, AI, translational research, engineering, quality, regulatory, and commercial teams while translating customer needs into product requirements. Requires healthcare technology product strategy experience, AI product lifecycle expertise, partner management, and strong knowledge of drug development.

Provides strategy consulting for pharma and life sciences clients, focusing on customer analytics and experience. Responsibilities include analyzing client needs, designing customer journey maps, managing segmentation and satisfaction surveys, interpreting customer data, developing value propositions, identifying improvement opportunities, and guiding teams in implementing customer experience strategies. The role also involves client relationship development, business process improvement, trend analysis, and delivering strategic recommendations that improve customer satisfaction, engagement, loyalty, and business growth.

Analyzes operational challenges, market trends, and performance data to develop strategic recommendations for clients. Manages consulting workstreams, supports operations strategy initiatives, reviews deliverables, builds client relationships, and mentors junior team members. The role requires translating complex business issues into practical actions that improve efficiency and growth.

Leads data strategy for MetLife’s Group Benefits business by connecting business and Data & Analytics teams, establishing shared definitions, resolving ownership gaps, and improving governance and quality. The role leads Data Councils, supports Agile Release Trains, removes data-related blockers, and strengthens data foundations for decision-making, service delivery, analytics, and AI initiatives.

Leads portfolio-wide maintenance strategy for data centers, translating reliability analyses into equipment strategies, maintenance standards, task intervals, and a governed maintenance library. Directs vendor-to-internal maintenance insourcing, vendor performance, technical qualification requirements, maintenance packages, and site readiness. Uses reliability KPIs to optimize preventive maintenance and address recurring failures and high-risk deferrals. The role is remote with travel to portfolio sites as needed.

Leads global acceptance strategy for Capital One’s payment network, evaluating partnerships, growth opportunities, competitive trends, and market performance. Develops executive recommendations, manages concurrent strategic initiatives, partners with Sales, Product, Pricing, Risk, Finance, and Operations, and leads analysts through coaching and development. The role requires rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis, strong business judgment, executive communication, and people leadership.

Leads fraud analytics strategy for digital payments, defining risk frameworks, fraud metrics, and analytical models. Partners with Product, Engineering, and Risk Operations to turn insights into scalable fraud mitigation solutions. Manages external data sources, defines requirements for production data pipelines, and establishes best practices for risk measurement and modeling. Serves as a senior thought leader influencing cross-functional stakeholders and executive decision-makers.

Leads operations servicing strategy, transformation initiatives, and cross-functional programs that improve customer and agent experiences. Partners with business, product, technology, and intent teams to create roadmaps, define requirements, manage change, and deliver operational improvements. Influences senior leaders through research, analysis, presentations, and recommendations while representing operational needs in product development. Oversees operational readiness, process efficiency, stakeholder communications, and execution in a matrixed environment.

Leads alternative data strategy for credit decisioning by evaluating vendors and datasets, engineering features, building and validating machine learning models, and developing scalable processing and monitoring systems. Partners with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers while translating complex analyses into business outcomes. The role requires expertise in large-scale data analysis, statistical modeling, machine learning, and relational databases, with hybrid office attendance.

Leads cross-functional Core Teams through the full development and commercialization lifecycle for regulated diagnostic products. Oversees Stage-Gate governance, design control compliance, FDA regulatory pathways, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and transitions from R&D to clinical laboratory operations. Requires matrix leadership, executive communication, and deep experience in oncology diagnostics, NGS, or liquid biopsy.

Leads strategy consulting engagements for payors and healthcare providers, including market analysis, operating model development, population health strategy, medical cost and quality improvement, and healthcare product initiatives. Manages project planning, budgets, deliverables, client relationships, and team performance while advising healthcare executives. Applies expertise in payor operations, clinical analytics, population health technologies, Medicare Stars, and healthcare product development.

Supports healthcare payer clients with back-office modernization across claims, reimbursement, government programs, customer operations, technology platforms, and operating models. Analyzes processes and performance data, identifies improvement opportunities, develops client recommendations, applies change management and digital tooling, manages workstreams, builds client relationships, and reviews junior team deliverables. The role contributes to strategy, technology, and operations consulting engagements involving payer platforms and service delivery transformation.