Senior Strategist, Commercial Strategy
Senior Strategist, Commercial Strategy
Senior Strategists play a critical role on our teams, turning a loosely framed client question into a defined analytical problem, owning the work that answers it. On any given project, they build the models and business cases that show which ideas are worth bringing to market, what those ideas are worth, and what it will take to deliver them. They design analyses from a blank workbook, construct views of markets and business models where no clean comparable exists, direct the contributions of Strategists and Associate Strategists, and present recommendations to executive audiences alongside more senior team members. As a Senior Strategist, you will apply Proto’s approach to innovation strategy with light oversight and increasingly shape how the team practices it.
What you will do:
- Turn a loosely framed client question into a defined analytical problem, breaking it into components, identifying which ones are load bearing, and framing two or three approaches before the work starts;
- Expect a first approach to break, treat each failed attempt as information, and return with what was learned and the next variant in hand;
- Work from limited or imperfect data to build a defensible view of a market, offering, or business model when no clean comparable exists, reasoning fr
