Senior Vice President of Strategy
Valtech
Why Valtech? We’retheexperience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience.
The opportunity
At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.
We are proud of:
- The work we do and the innovation we drive
- Our values of share, care and dare
- A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy
- Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration
The role
You will thrive in this role if you are:
- A curious problem solver who challenges the status quo
- A collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing
- Excited by the intersection of technology, creativity and data
- Experienced in Agile methodologies and consulting (a plus)
Role responsibilities
Executive Client Advisory
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive client leaders, including CMOs, CIOs, and other senior stakeholders.
- Help clients navigate the intersection of brand strategy, customer experience, data, technology, and AI.
- Develop and defend strategic points of view on personalization, data activation, AI, and growth.
- Connect brand differentiation with data-driven customer engagement strategies.
- Advise organizations on how AI is transforming content production, marketing operations, and the broader customer experience ecosystem.
- Build trusted relationships that open, expand, and strengthen client partnerships.
Strategic Pursuits & Business Development
- Shape opportunities before formal pursuit phases begin by helping clients define business challenges and strategic priorities.
- Partner with account teams to identify, qualify, and develop high-value opportunities.
- Bring a compelling perspective across brand, creative, data, AI, and technology solutions.
- Guide pursuit strategy and support proposal and RFP development activities.
- Evaluate pursuit investment decisions and prioritize opportunities with the highest strategic value and growth potential.
Pursuit Leadership
- Lead strategic pursuit narratives from opportunity identification through final client presentations.
- Develop compelling solution stories and differentiated value propositions.
- Collaborate with commercial and pricing teams to align strategic positioning with commercial models.
- Coach and support presenting teams during client decision-making processes.
- Capture lessons learned from both successful and unsuccessful pursuits and translate insights into future improvements.
Offering Development
- Transform market and client insights into scalable, repeatable service offerings.
- Define how strategy, brand, data activation, personalization, and AI offerings are packaged, positioned, and sold.
- Continuously evolve offerings in response to changes in technology, AI capabilities, and market demand.
- Partner across practices to ensure integrated solutions and consistent client experiences.
Thought Leadership & Market Presence
- Represent Valtech at industry conferences, executive forums, analyst briefings, and client events.
- Develop original intellectual property, research, and thought leadership content.
- Build awareness of Valtech's AI-native positioning and experience innovation capabilities.
- Strengthen relationships with analysts, strategic partners, and key industry influencers.
Practice Leadership
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of strategists across the Americas.
- Establish scalable operating models, tools, and ways of working for the strategy practice.
- Partner closely with Creative, Data & AI, and Technology leaders to deliver integrated client outcomes.
- Define and implement AI-native approaches to research, synthesis, strategic development, pursuit support, and practice operations.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
Must have qualifications
To be considered for this role, you must meet the following essential qualifications:
- Significant experience in strategy consulting, digital consulting, business transformation, or a related advisory discipline.
- Proven success advising CMOs, marketing leaders, and executive stakeholders on business growth and transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to engage credibly with CIOs and technology leaders on the relationship between technology investments and business outcomes.
- Deep understanding of customer experience, brand strategy, data activation, personalization, and AI-driven transformation.
- Experience leading complex, multidisciplinary pursuits from qualification through deal closure.
- Strong track record of building and scaling high-performing strategy or advisory teams.
- Experience defining operating models, methodologies, and business practices for growing consulting organizations.
- Proven ability to establish and scale AI-enabled or AI-native approaches within strategy and consulting environments.
- Excellent executive communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
- Ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations and influence stakeholders across multiple functions
Nice to have qualifications
- External market presence through speaking engagements, published thought leadership, analyst engagement, or industry participation.
- Experience working across brand, marketing, data, and technology transformation initiatives.
- Established relationships with strategic alliance or technology partners.
- Experience supporting global clients and large-scale transformation programs.
If you do not meet all the listed qualifications or have gaps in your experience, we still encourage you to apply. At Valtech, we recognize that talent comes in many forms, and we value diverse perspectives and a willingness to learn.
The benefits
This is a Full time position based in USA. The offered salary range is $180,000 USD- $250,000 USD annually, depending on experience and location.
Your application process
Once you apply, our Talent Acquisition team will review your application. If your skills and experience align with the role, we’ll reach out for next steps.Your CV should cover key information on relevant experiences and expertise. We do not require information such as age, gender, marital status, or a headshot in your application. We review all candidates based on skills, experience, and potential.
⚠️ Beware of recruitment fraud: Only engage with official Valtech email addresses.
We are committed to inclusion and accessibility. If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process, please either indicate it in your application or let your Talent Partner know.
About Valtech
Valtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, we help brands unlock new value in an increasingly digital world.
At the intersection of data, AI, creativity, and technology, we drive transformation for leading organizations, including L’Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen Dolby, and more.
At Valtech, we don’t just talk about transformation. We make it happen. Our people are the heart of our success, and we foster a workplace where everyone has the support to thrive, grow and innovate.
Are you ready to create what’s next? Join us.
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Strategy Partner, Senior
Spira Care
Guided by our core values and commitment to your success, we provide health, financial and lifestyle benefits to ensure a best-in-class employee experience. Some of our offerings include:
Highly competitive total rewards package, including comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits as well as a 401(k) plan that both the employee and employer contribute
Annual incentive bonus plan based on company achievement of goals
Time away from work including paid holidays, paid time off and volunteer time off
Professional development courses, mentorship opportunities, and tuition reimbursement program
Paid parental leave and adoption leave with adoption financial assistance
Employee discount program
Job Description Summary:
This job supports the executive leadership of the Organization with a range of strategy activities essential to ensuring the Organization's goals. Provide analytical/strategic thinking and leadership support that enables project teams to isolate business issues, design and execute analytics for studying business issues (market research, scenario planning, forecasting, market share, profitability, etc.), develop technical content (competitive intelligence, market trend analysis), support development of formal recommendations to senior levels of organizational leadership, create documents (go-to-market or operational strategies, etc.) that inform critical strategic issues and decisions, support the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy, and/or support the execution of enterprise strategic initiatives through a disciplined process and approach.Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
This job supports the executive leadership of the Organization with a range of strategy activities essential to ensuring the Organization's goals. Provide analytical/strategic thinking and leadership support that enables project teams to isolate business issues, design and execute analytics for studying business issues (market research, scenario planning, forecasting, market share, profitability, etc.), develop technical content (competitive intelligence, market trend analysis), support development of formal recommendations to senior levels of organizational leadership, create documents (go-to-market or operational strategies, etc.) that inform critical strategic issues and decisions, support the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy, and/or support the execution of enterprise strategic initiatives through a disciplined process and approach.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with business/market owners to identify key business issues, apply right analytical framework, develop solution and recommendations, represent findings to stakeholders, and own the outcome.
- Manage major strategy projects comprised of internal and/or external consulting resources.
- Provide periodic informal work guidance/direction to junior team members; provide performance input and recommendations to management for development/training plans. May have supervisory responsibilities on a project basis.
- Develop analytical frameworks, approach, and methodology best practices to analyze strategy issues.
- Consult with business owners to identify, clarify, and resolve complex issues critical to the success of the initiative.
- Coordinate initiative impacts with other strategic initiatives to ensure alignment of the overall strategy.
- Work on other Enterprise level strategy projects as needed.
- Other duties as assigned or requested.
EDUCATION
Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, or related field, or relevant experience and/or education as determined by the company in lieu of bachelor's degree.
Preferred
- Master’s Degree in Business, or related field
EXPERIENCE
Required
- 7 years of experience in strategic planning or related work experience
- 2 years of consulting experience (external or internal) or equivalent combination of experience and advanced degree
Preferred
- Extensive knowledge of health insurance and/or provider operations
- Experience in operational improvement, change management, capability roadmaps, and/or program management
- Thorough knowledge of membership, rates, financial, economic, and competitive data
- Significant experience working across teams and managing relationships in a matrixed environment
- Experience working with health plans, physicians, and other providers
- Support the planning, communication, and management of the enterprise strategy
SKILLS
- Understanding of the health care industry trends and challenges
- Demonstrated relationship, influencing, collaboration, and teamwork skills. Needs to be able to lead cross-functional, crossbusiness
- unit teams in complex projects and handle internal politics of change
- Strong project leadership/management skills
- Strong emotional intelligence, with servant leadership mindset
- Focus on impacts to the customer of decisions rendered
- Proactive in driving change and continuous improvement
- Team management skills
- Deep analytical skills, with the ability to structure and perform complex analytics
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.
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Partners in Performance - Performance Strategy Principal Director
Accenture
Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate, and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.
We drive profitable growth by developing market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets. They progress through required promotion into market-facing roles that have a direct impact on sales.
The Performance Strategy Principal Director applies deep business strategy development, architecting value, and operating model architecture skills to influence client agendas through business insight. Partners with our clients to make bold decisions on priority C-Suite issues at the intersection of business, technology, and operations. Provides deep understanding of our clients' industry landscape and business options in the context of global, economic, technology and social trends.
We Are:
Accenture Strategy. Through deep industry expertise, analytics, and insights, we empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.
You Are:
A Strategy Consulting maestro with tons of experience across the Resources industry with leadership and management skills to spare. Your expertise? Advising clients on data-driven strategies to achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. You have energy and drive in abundance, along with personal resilience, a passion for serving clients, and a love of continual learning. You have a flair for breaking down processes into logical parts and constructing crystal-clear reasoning and analyses—an aptitude you use to decimate problems. Communication and people skills? You have both in spades, and as a manager you’re a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams.
The Work:
- Go deep to get the lay of the landthat clients operate in to find clients’ business options in the context of global, economic, technology, and social trends.
- Lead teams to provide world-class business strategy solutions to clients inthe Resources Industryto meet the unique market and organizational need.
- Lead teams in driving insights and recommendations using data models and visualization tools.
- Help clients achieve long-term success by drawing up practical road maps that help them carry out strategy, manage change, monitor and gauge processes, and rectify issues if needed.
- Build relationships with clients to sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
- Mentor junior members of the Strategy team and groom them for more responsibility.
- Keep deepening your prowess to reinforce Accenture’s reputation as a thought leader.
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Basic Qualifications:
- 10 years of strategic advisory exposure in Natural Resources, more specifically metals and mining
- 5 years in a similar senior level role in a professional services industry (strategic consulting firm ideal)
- Bachelor's degree required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence C-level and operational management
- Exceptional logical reasoning and the ability to ruthlessly prioritize to ensure rapid gains are achieved and sustained
- Proven recent blue-chip, generalist consulting experience in a T1 consulting firm
- Ideally**, experience delivering results-based engagements with a proven, lasting impact**
- A genuine passion for sustainable results
- Experience working in the metals and mining industry, as well as other heavy-industry environments that include roster-schedule work
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/12/2026. Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
Role Location Annual Salary Range California $293,900 to $429,300 Colorado $293,900 to $429,300 Connecticut $293,900 to $429,300
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New York $293,900 to $429,300
New Jersey $293,900 to $429,300 Ohio $293,900 to $429,300 Virginia $293,900 to $429,300 Washington $293,900 to $429,300
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at
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