Junior Transformation Strategist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Examine how customer workflows are conducted through interviews, data analysis, handoffs, exceptions, and workarounds.

• Create fact bases that illustrate where cost, cash, service, cycle time, or control is being compromised.

• Develop and rigorously test hypotheses, including criteria for dismissal.

• Organize unfamiliar issues and construct selection equations for effective decision-making.

• Transform analysis into presentations, one-pagers, and memos that are ready for decision-making.

• Generate precise materials with clearly defined baselines, assumptions, and supporting evidence.

• Provide outputs on the same day or the following day for specified requests.

• Assist multiple live enterprise accounts by serving as analytical surge capacity.

• Adapt across various categories, supply chains, finance operations, inventory, and commercial problem types.

• Keep a clear record of actions, outstanding questions, and evidence.

• Identify blockers and ambiguities early in the process.

• Aid in establishing baselines, targets, and measurement periods prior to implementation.

• Quantify results in terms of revenue, margin, cost, working capital, cycle time, and control.

• Analyze both successful outcomes and missed opportunities, and compile evidence packs.

• Cultivate working-level relationships with operators and mid-level process owners.

• Organize working sessions, document decisions, and follow up on commitments.

• Raise issues that necessitate senior input.

• Collaborate with Transformation Strategists and Forward Deployed Engineers, while not managing commercial negotiations, board-level relationships, or technical builds.

⛳️ Requirements

• Currently an Associate, Senior Associate, or Consultant (or equivalent) at McKinsey or BCG; candidates from Bain and other top strategy firms may be considered if they possess similar expertise.

• Typically possess around 2–4 years of core, client-facing consulting experience.

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality analyses and presentations utilized by partners and clients for decision-making.

• Capable of working efficiently without compromising on thoroughness.

• Comfortable operating as surge capacity across diverse issues rather than managing a single comprehensive study from start to finish.

• Employ structured, hypothesis-driven problem-solving techniques.

• Possess analytical speed and numeracy; comfortable working with messy data and incomplete information.

• Strong writing skills and proficiency in slide creation.

• Ability to derive insights and recognize areas where value is being lost.

• Quick adaptation to new accounts and problem types within a few days.

• Strong delivery focus and commitment to follow through.

• Good judgment when interacting with operators and managers.

• Capability to leverage AI for accelerated research, analysis, and drafting while ensuring output quality remains high.

• Proficient in navigating imperfect instructions and promptly highlighting bad news.

• Helpful, but not mandatory: experience in retail, CPG, supply chain, logistics, inventory, or finance operations; prior startup or early-stage exposure.

• Must be residing in the UK or willing to relocate there prior to starting.

• Ability to travel to client sites from the UK.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity, with flexibility regarding the balance between cash and ownership.

• Direct access to founders, customers, and key decisions.

• Budget and autonomy to utilize the best AI tools available.

• Product already demonstrating measurable results in live enterprise operations.

• Career opportunity at the intersection of consulting, operations, and AI-driven transformation.

• Contracted 5x ROI guarantee on every solution provided.