Top Strategy Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads portfolio-level strategic planning, investment prioritization, performance analytics, and payments product roadmaps. Partners with product, technology, and business leaders to define KPIs, optimize investments, drive financial growth, and guide executive prioritization decisions. Builds strategic presentations, analyzes data with Excel, improves planning processes using AI and agentic workflows, and manages multiple projects across global payments segments.

Leads strategy and operations for new business initiatives, including market studies, competitive analysis, business modeling, M&A evaluation, strategic partnerships, budgeting, forecasting, acquisition integration, and startup planning. Monitors KPIs, assesses risks and efficiencies, supports cross-functional execution, mentors team members, and presents data-driven recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Supports a core P&L through strategic initiatives, process improvements, customer experience enhancements, and business automation. Owns projects from recommendation through implementation, manages bottlenecks and escalations, evaluates vendors, negotiates with partners, collaborates with technical teams, and uses data to guide decisions. The role requires cross-functional relationship building, analytical problem-solving, communication, influence, and project execution skills.

Supports product management and strategy for OCC clearing platforms. Responsibilities include writing user stories, refining backlogs, maintaining Jira and Confluence documentation, participating in Agile ceremonies, gathering stakeholder requirements, conducting market and competitive research, tracking sprint metrics, and preparing leadership presentations. The intern collaborates with Product Owners, Engineering, Risk, Operations, QA, and other cross-functional teams in a hybrid environment.

Supports commercial due diligence and deal strategy engagements by analyzing markets, customers, competitors, financial and operational models, and transaction risks. Develops fact-based insights, strategic recommendations, and client deliverables; manages workstreams, project milestones, stakeholder collaboration, and changing priorities. Mentors junior team members, builds client relationships, and contributes to value creation and go-to-market initiatives.

Leads commercial due diligence and deal strategy engagements for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings. Analyzes markets, competition, business plans, revenue assumptions, and value creation opportunities using research, scenario analysis, and financial modeling. Develops strategic recommendations, presents findings to senior clients, directs multidisciplinary teams, manages complex workstreams, and coaches team members. Supports growth strategy and go-to-market initiatives while maintaining delivery quality and stakeholder alignment.

Supports deal-related technology strategy and diligence projects through research, data gathering, analysis, presentation development, transaction-material review, and project coordination. The intern contributes to market and technology assessments, operating-model analysis, value-creation opportunities, client deliverables, and AI-enabled workflows while developing advisory and transaction-focused skills.

Develop sustainability strategies for clients, addressing carbon accounting, climate finance, environmental policy, climate risks, and sustainable growth. Responsibilities include conducting maturity assessments, analyzing data, designing climate adaptation programs, developing strategic solutions, facilitating client collaboration, and mentoring junior team members. The role requires strong analytical thinking, communication, teamwork, learning agility, and an MBA candidate who is one year from graduation.

Supports deal strategy, commercial diligence, transaction analysis, and post-deal value creation through research, data organization, document review, market analysis, and preparation of client-ready summaries and presentations. Assists with financial, operational, and strategic assessments for mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships while developing advisory, communication, teamwork, and digital tool skills.

Supports private equity and M&A advisory engagements through financial due diligence, financial statement analysis, business plan and competitive analysis, acquisition strategy, deal structuring, scenario modeling, industry trend analysis, and post-merger integration initiatives. The intern collaborates with advisory teams, develops financial models, evaluates risks and opportunities, and gains exposure to corporate development and deal execution.

Supports strategy and business transformation consulting projects through research, data gathering, market and competitive analysis, information synthesis, and preparation of client-ready presentations. The intern coordinates assigned tasks, tracks deadlines, participates in team discussions, applies AI and digital tools, and develops strategic insights while learning consulting methods and gaining exposure to client work.

Own the end-to-end customer experience for Tempus diagnostic testing, spanning ordering, logistics, status visibility, results, billing, and support. Develop journey maps, roadmaps, product requirements, launch plans, and workflow improvements. Lead customer research, feedback analysis, executive reporting, and targeted data analysis while coordinating cross-functional improvements across product, engineering, laboratory operations, billing, support, and digital teams.

Owns Coupa’s global sales roster, territory assignments, and quota allocation infrastructure. Leads the annual territory and quota-setting cycle, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, maintains Salesforce and related systems, and provides analysis on territory effectiveness, quota coverage, productivity, and attrition. Supports M&A integration through GTM organization design, compensation and territory consolidation, account mapping, and systems migration. Serves as the source of truth for revenue organization structure and access requirements.

Leads business strategy, product and pricing development, marketing strategy, credit risk analytics, and execution for lending products. Manages analysts, oversees concurrent projects and programs, develops business requirements, and partners cross-functionally with technology, sales, operations, and finance teams. Uses quantitative and qualitative analysis, financial modeling, forecasting, and consumer credit insights to improve growth, profitability, customer experiences, and credit performance.

Lead digital merchandising strategy and onsite category experiences across browse, search, navigation, filtering, product presentation, and discovery. Use customer insights, performance data, and experimentation to improve conversion and confidence. Develop category-specific merchandising strategies, taxonomy, attributes, product relationships, and scalable best practices while partnering with Product, Marketing, Category Management, and data teams.

Leads full-cycle recruiting for Strategy, Corporate Development, and Corporate Responsibility teams. Responsibilities include requisition intake, talent mapping, sourcing, candidate evaluation, interview coordination, candidate communication, offer negotiation, approvals, stakeholder advising, pipeline development, and presenting recruiting updates to senior leaders. The role serves as a talent acquisition subject matter expert and manages multiple requisitions while delivering strategic hiring solutions and a strong candidate experience.

Supports strategic planning, business analysis, and cross-functional execution across organizational priorities. Structures complex business questions, analyzes data, develops business cases and scenario analyses, and translates insights into recommendations for senior leaders. The role facilitates stakeholder alignment, manages timelines and deliverables, prepares executive-ready presentations and communications, and helps teams address ambiguous business challenges.

Leads payer back-office strategy, technology, and operations consulting engagements for health services clients. Responsibilities include modernizing payer operations, optimizing processes, analyzing business data, managing change, improving service delivery models, coaching teams, engaging stakeholders, and validating quality and compliance outcomes. The role leads large projects and develops strategic recommendations for operational excellence.

Leads consulting engagements focused on product development and manufacturing transformation. Diagnoses lifecycle bottlenecks, improves cost, quality, speed to market, lean processes, supply chain integration, and digital operations. Manages client workstreams, teams, budgets, deliverables, and risks while coaching junior staff. Develops client recommendations involving product strategy, roadmaps, positioning, and go-to-market planning, and applies analytics, AI, and emerging technologies to improve operational performance.

Supports operations consulting engagements focused on product development and manufacturing excellence. Analyzes workflows, identifies bottlenecks, develops strategy and transformation deliverables, documents operating models, interprets operational data, and supports lean manufacturing and supply chain integration. Builds client relationships, coordinates workstreams, guides junior team members, and applies product lifecycle management, AI fluency, and process improvement methods to improve speed to market, cost performance, and product quality.

Strategy and Operations Intern supporting Enova's core business units through strategic initiatives and process-improvement projects. Responsibilities may include automating business processes, supporting product launches, analyzing business performance, collaborating cross-functionally, influencing stakeholders, and presenting recommendations. The 10-week hybrid internship requires working in the Chicago office three days per week.

Leads U.S. healthcare benefits strategy, analytics, cost projections, performance measurement, and implementation of plan changes. Analyzes claims and financial data, models strategic scenarios, evaluates new offerings, configures annual enrollment rate changes, and presents recommendations to senior leadership. Coordinates cross-functional stakeholders across Benefits, Finance, HR Technology, Legal, IT Security, and sourcing while supporting audits, compliance, and operational excellence.

Lead organizational strategy and transformation initiatives for Client Onboarding & Service. Responsibilities include process improvement, data-driven analysis, AI integration, change management, executive communications, stakeholder advisory, business case development, roadmap creation, and project leadership. The role manages multiple workstreams and team members while driving organizational effectiveness, workforce transformation, operating model evolution, and measurable business outcomes.

Own and execute end-to-end YouTube channel strategy and programming across long-form, Shorts, and live. Drive SEO/AEO and discovery optimization, run structured experiments, analyze performance, set KPIs, partner cross-functionally, manage content calendars and workflows, lead a team, and serve as primary contact with YouTube to scale repeatable formats and grow reach, engagement, watch time, and subscribers.

Lead development and execution of cross-line-of-business market strategies, support localized tactics and budgeting, track KPIs with data teams, and build stakeholder relationships to drive market growth and amplify best practices across markets.