Top Strategy Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and advise clients on M&A, divestitures, restructuring, and private equity value creation. Analyze market trends, identify risks and opportunities, develop strategic frameworks, and lead teams to execute deal strategies while coaching staff and ensuring professional standards.

Lead client engagements to analyze market trends, assess performance, and design business model reinvention strategies. Manage teams, oversee project planning and execution, conduct competitive and market research, drive transformation initiatives, coach junior staff, and build client relationships to achieve strategic objectives.

Lead strategy consulting engagements for consumer markets: analyze market trends and performance, identify growth and transformation opportunities, craft clear strategic recommendations, direct teams through complex situations, validate outcomes with clients, and coach and develop diverse teams while enforcing professional standards.

Lead finance function optimization and transformation projects: analyze operating models, design and implement process and role changes, deliver financial solutions, coach teams, drive change management, validate outcomes with clients, and communicate strategic financial recommendations.

Lead operations strategy engagements to optimize efficiency and drive growth. Analyze performance and market trends, develop strategic plans, manage projects and client relationships, mentor teams, and implement process, supply chain, and technology-enabled improvements.

Lead strategy engagements focused on business model reinvention: analyze market and consumer trends, develop and implement transformative strategies, oversee multiple projects, build executive client relationships, mentor teams, drive business development, and promote technology-enabled solutions to improve operations and growth.

Senior Associate in front-office strategy consulting using advanced analytics to extract insights from large datasets. Responsibilities include data manipulation, visualization, predictive modeling, building dashboards (Power BI, Tableau), integrating data sources, ensuring data security/compliance, advising clients, and mentoring junior team members to drive data-driven decisions and operational improvements.

Lead development and implementation of metrics, dashboards, and governance to drive measurable improvements in cybersecurity, technology risk, and developer quality. Build metric suites aligned to industry frameworks, monitor anomalies, and oversee executive reporting including the quarterly Board Risk Committee memo. Collaborate across first, second, and third lines to socialize thresholds and enable data-driven decisions.

Lead strategy and GTM for agentic commerce on Arc, driving ecosystem partnerships, product alignment, and adoption of USDC and Circle Agent Stack across AI builders, platforms, and enterprises.

Provide cybersecurity and privacy compliance advisory services, perform risk assessments and audits, design and implement compliance programs (ISO27001, NIST CSF), advise on AML and financial crime controls, support governance and reporting, and coordinate client training while mentoring team members.

Lead development of customer-focused messaging and content strategies across segments. Create strategic creative briefs, maintain a segment-driven content calendar, partner with creative and campaign teams, and use analytics to evaluate content performance and optimize messaging throughout the customer journey.

Leads product strategy and strategic initiatives for Capital One’s Consumer and Developer Experience organization. Partners with senior leaders, analyzes business landscapes, drives annual planning, supports AI transformation, develops product innovation and prototypes with engineering, and leads strategy and product teams. The role requires strong strategic problem-solving, product orientation, analytics, people leadership, relationship-building, communication, and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity.

Support Consumer and Developer Experience leadership by solving strategic business questions, leading initiatives such as AI transformation, conducting analytics and market assessments, shaping long-term product innovation, and partnering with engineering on prototypes. The role also builds stakeholder relationships, develops strategic capabilities, promotes AI-enabled efficiency, and contributes to annual planning and organizational alignment.

Leads strategy, optimization, and scaling for paid acquisition channels including Google Demand Gen, Yahoo Mail, and Discover Feed. Manages performance marketing teams, channel roadmaps, creative and landing-page testing, budgets, forecasting, tracking, attribution, compliance, partner relationships, and campaign operations. Collaborates with Brand, Product, Analytics, Legal, Risk, and Compliance teams to improve conversion, automate workflows, and scale direct-response acquisition.

The Manager, Identity Fraud Strategy oversees identity verification and authentication strategies, leads a fraud analytics team, and partners with CIAM to minimize fraud while enhancing customer experience.

The Strategy & Operations Associate will support operational execution in transforming clinical data, managing workflows, reporting, and improving efficiency through AI initiatives.

The Director of Strategy & Analytics will lead analytics efforts, conduct data analyses, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver actionable insights for business growth.

The Manager of Strategy & Analytics will analyze marketing performance, client retention, and customer value, collaborating with various teams to provide actionable insights.

Leads the strategic direction of data initiatives, governance, analytics, and decision-making frameworks. Establishes growth and innovation strategies, oversees transformative data projects, maintains executive client relationships, mentors future leaders, fosters creativity, collaborates across departments, supports business development, and ensures adherence to professional data management standards.

Provides executive administrative support in a fast-paced environment by managing multiple calendars, arranging meetings and travel, preparing expense reports and business communications, coordinating events, and handling general office tasks. The role requires strong organization, adaptability, communication, problem-solving, and proficiency with office productivity and video-conferencing tools.

The manager will lead event marketing strategies, oversee a coordinator, manage budgets, negotiate contracts, and execute around 25 annual conferences.

Produce regular reports and analyses to inform strategic decisions across Sales, Partnerships, Finance, and Product. Ensure data integrity, present insights to senior leadership, solve complex business problems, and improve analytical capabilities and processes.

Lead and execute governance, risk, and compliance activities including remediation management, change management, exam management, policy governance, and reporting. Collaborate with second/third lines of defense and external partners, track remediation lifecycle and metrics, maintain GRC tool documentation, identify process optimization opportunities, and mentor junior team members to strengthen control infrastructure and regulatory readiness.

Lead UX strategy within management consulting by applying human-centered design, research, and prototyping to create user journeys, wireframes, and solutions. Drive business growth, mentor teams, oversee projects and client relations, conduct usability testing, and integrate technology to improve customer and employee experiences.

Provide strategic guidance to Pharma and Life Sciences clients by analyzing market trends, assessing performance, conducting competitive and consumer research, developing go-to-market and customer experience strategies, interpreting data analytics, supporting cost and value realization, and building client relationships while upholding professional standards.