Senior Strategy and Business Development Consultant
$105,700–$160,300 year
Hybrid · Illinois, United States or Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary
Senior Strategy and Business Development Consultant leading multi-workstream strategic initiatives across enterprise strategy, business development, and innovation; partners directly with senior leaders to define market opportunities, evaluate new business models, and develop actionable strategies to accelerate growth. Plays a central role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing business development opportunities; including new ventures, strategic partnerships, and potential investments or acquisitions. Contributes to the design and assessment of innovation initiatives that strengthen Compeer’s position as a leader in rural finance and agricultural services. Typical day includes strategy project leadership, defining problem structure and workplans, delivering client-ready materials, driving due diligence and opportunity evaluation, developing business cases, collaborating with cross-functional teams (Innovation, Finance, Legal, Product), facilitating planning processes, connecting planning to resource allocation and KPIs, and mentoring junior team members; effective storytelling and data-backed recommendations to senior leaders.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, human centered or product design or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job
- MBA or equivalent experience strongly preferred
- Advanced-level experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, innovation, business development, or corporate development, required
- Proven ability to lead multi-faceted strategy projects and assess commercial opportunities
- Advanced experience from top consulting firms, corporate strategy groups, or innovation-focused business roles
- Comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, and external market engagement
- Advanced ability to design approaches to ambiguous problems and lead through structured frameworks
- Advanced ability to synthesizes complex findings into persuasive, high-quality documents and presentations tailored to senior audiences
- Advanced understanding of how to evaluate and quantify new market opportunities, product ideas, partnerships, and investments
- Experience conducting due diligence, analyzing partner fit, or building business cases
- Advanced financial and market analysis capabilities, including Excel modeling, market sizing, and customer segmentation
- Brings a general management mindset and is comfortable weighing tradeoffs across customer, financial, operational, and strategic factors
- Demonstrated ability to assess or incubate new business ideas. Understands how to balance desirability, feasibility, and viability of emerging concepts
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