Top Business Consulting Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Business Analyst will act as a liaison between the business and development teams, analyzing requirements and designing functional specifications. Responsibilities include mentoring junior team members and assisting with data sourcing and reporting using SQL, SSIS, and SSRS.

Provide consultative advisory to higher-education senior leaders on advancement, fundraising, campaign readiness, and financial sustainability. Deliver presentations, workshops, and on-campus facilitation; diagnose partner challenges, recommend solutions, and support implementation. Generate research content, collaborate with customer success and sales, and travel extensively to partner institutions (40-50% travel).

Lead advisory work on advancement and financial sustainability for higher-education clients: build terrain expertise, deliver presentations and facilitation to senior leaders, diagnose challenges, recommend solutions, support sales and customer success, produce research content, and travel frequently to client sites (40–50%).

Lead stakeholder discovery, define success criteria, and translate business needs into Salesforce user stories and solution designs. Perform fit-gap analysis, configure declarative Salesforce solutions, manage integrations and data migrations, oversee development/testing, deliver training, and support project scoping and delivery within an Agile/hybrid approach.

Lead Advancement terrain within Research Advisory Services, deliver strategic advisory and facilitation to senior higher-ed leaders, produce research content, support sales and customer success, manage and develop a team, and spend significant time onsite with clients to drive adoption of EAB insights and practices.

Work with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, recommend Salesforce Revenue and Commerce Cloud solutions, perform gap analyses, support development and testing, run client trainings, and document consulting activities to enable successful implementation and adoption.

Provide senior consultative support for network business operations and program management, leading complex initiatives from design to implementation, advising leadership, developing processes and tools, using data to prioritize high-value efforts, managing stakeholders, communications, and occasionally supervising a small team.

Design, build, and deploy SAP BTP solutions and integrations for S/4HANA Cloud transformations. Lead extension architecture, develop cloud-native apps, implement integrations (CPI, API Management), support analytics, testing, deployment, and go-live/hypercare activities.

Lead Fit-to-Standard workshops, document As-Is/To-Be processes, identify optimization and automation opportunities, design end-to-end SAP S/4HANA business processes, support SAP Activate implementations, facilitate stakeholder alignment, ensure solution governance, assist testing/UAT and cutover, and promote continuous improvement using SAP Signavio and process analytics.

Consult with manufacturing and product-based clients to analyze financial operations, support or lead QAD ERP finance implementations, improve reporting, costing, budgeting, and forecasting, validate ERP financial data integrity, deliver presentations and training, and advise leadership on process improvements while mentoring junior consultants as appropriate.

Business Consultant Project Directors work with business owners to improve operational performance and financial controls through hands-on consulting and coaching. They lead client relationships from initial engagement to measurable outcomes while managing the consulting lifecycle and implementing solutions.

Build a talent pool of part-time instructors, authors, and SMEs to deliver workshops, create course content, design exercises, shape curriculum, review materials, and advise on practical AI adoption across sales, marketing, L&D, and org transformation. Roles are remote (EU time zones), ~10–15 hrs/week, focused on translating real-world AI experience into actionable learning for non-technical business audiences.

Document and update end-to-end operational processes, SOPs, and process maps; maintain process architecture and inventories; prepare training and knowledge-transfer materials; support implementation readiness, governance reviews, and stakeholder workshops to enable future-state operating models.

Lead executive workshops and consult with customers to translate network operational pain points into prioritized automation roadmaps. Assess multi-vendor network architectures, define runbooks and automation workflows, quantify business value, advise on integrations, and partner with Product and Services to drive adoption and program governance.

The Director of Business Development leads BME Strategies' growth strategy for government contracts, focusing on securing new business and managing high-level relationships with government stakeholders, while overseeing proposal management and team leadership.

The Associate Director, Research Advisory Services provides consultative support and expert advice to educational institutions, working with senior leaders to deliver data-driven insights and strategies for improvement and transformation. Responsibilities include facilitating client interactions, creating content, and collaborating with teams to enhance client experience.

Partner with enterprise sales to create ROI analyses, business cases, and executive presentations that quantify Stripes strategic and financial value; develop value frameworks, tools, and training to scale value-selling across accounts.

Design, develop, and deploy Business Central extensions, integrations, and data migrations using AL, Azure, Power Platform, and SQL. Architect finance solutions across GL/AP/AR/fixed assets, support go-live and CI/CD, perform code reviews, and produce technical documentation and estimations.

Interns will assist Senior Consultants in advising and training technology startups on contracting with the Department of Defense, focusing on navigating acquisitions and proposing contract opportunities.

As a Senior Business Value Consultant, you will assist customers in identifying key challenges and quantifying the financial value of solutions to enhance business outcomes.

The Digital Strategy Consultant translates business goals into digital use cases, develops requirements, and collaborates with technical teams to ensure effective implementation across customer journeys.

Lead CX consulting engagements by analyzing XM data, managing projects, mentoring junior staff, and delivering strategic recommendations. Drive client communications, design CX solutions, manage resources and timelines, identify growth opportunities, and promote continuous improvement and professional development across teams.

The Curam Business Consultant role involves consulting responsibilities centered around Curam technologies, with responsibilities yet to be defined.

Lead strategic business transformation projects for founder-led companies by assessing operations, proposing solutions, and delivering executive presentations.

Support pre-sales by leading technical discussions, gathering customer data requirements, designing solutions using LSEG products and cloud data platforms, running demos, supervising data coverage checks, and coordinating custom integrations with Sales and Product teams.