Consultant

Strategy Consultants empower customers to make more informed decisions by providing timely, relevant, and accurate answers to their business questions. To achieve this mission, Consultants work to understand business needs and technical requirements, and design and implement high value solutions in the Strategy platform. Strategy Consultants are an integral part of the world's largest staff of Strategy Certified Engineers and leverage knowledge and best practices across our global team for customer success. This position would be highly suited for a skilled, senior BI consultant who is looking for the next step in her/his career and wants to take on more challenges and responsibility. Hands-on experience with creating advanced Strategy Schema is a must. This is a customer facing role, owning overall technical relationship between Strategy and main stakeholders in our customers.

Responsibilities

Delivers billable consulting services; Ensures a solid understanding of business objectives associated with projects and/or programs; Connects project outcomes with customers' overall vision and Strategy account strategy; Participates in implementation activities; Leverages technical competence and implementation experience to develop functional and technical application design skills; Develops customer relationship and expectation management skills by independently working with customers; Provides support to the Services management team, helping to scope and estimate the engagement; Communicates effectively with team members both internally and with customers; Shares expertise and experience with junior team members; May be given responsibility as a team coach on small teams of up to 8 members, leading and mentoring their more junior colleagues; Seeks opportunities through project work to develop rapport and working relationship with external customers; Applies methodology effectively in a wide variety of situations; Demonstrates influence towards positive outcomes, internally and externally with customers; Works within an internal sphere of influence typically bounded by project or regional activities; Supports the team taking ideas from concept through full deployment; Leverages Strategy best practices for service delivery; Develops an awareness of the competitive landscape including key differentiators and competitive positioning; Actively participates in internal knowledge-sharing forums

Requirements

Bachelors or equivalent degree in a business, technical, or related field; 2-3 years of hands-on Strategy experience; Hands-on experience with creating advanced Strategy Schema is a must; Fluent in creating and modelling advanced Strategy Schema layers, including setting up joins, hierarchies, logical tables etc.; Commitment to personal and professional growth; Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and business requirements; Effective oral and written communication skills; Ability to work effectively independently as well as in a team environment; Staffing to local projects wherever possible, however field consultants can expect periods and assignments of up to 75 - 80% travel

Nice to have

Strategy SDK experience would be advantageous; Programming or systems development experience preferred