Associate Director, Business Strategy

Method is a global design and engineering consultancy founded in 1999. We believe that innovation should be meaningful, beautiful and human. We craft practical, powerful digital experiences that improve lives and transform businesses. Our global teams [based in London, New York, Charlotte, Bengaluru, Mexico City, and Remote] work with a wide range of organizations in many industries, including Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, and Energy and Utilities.  

Method is part of GlobalLogic, a digital product engineering company. GlobalLogic integrates experience design and complex engineering to help our clients imagine what’s possible and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses. GlobalLogic is a Hitachi Group Company.

As an Associate Director of Business Strategy, you will lead strategic projects that exist across the product lifecycle. You will tackle complex, high-impact challenges through a mix of hands-on work and guiding teammates. Your core activities will include framing opportunities with clients, structuring and leading business research, planning and facilitating collaborative workshops to drive opportunity explorations, gain alignment and roadmap the future of a client’s products and services. You will partner closely with a client, serving as a champion to ensure our work meets their needs and as an advisor to further their business aspirations through strategy and design. You’ll guide your project team in communicating complex concepts in written and diagrammatic formats and support design, product, data and engineering teams to bring digital products and services to market by translating strategies into actionable outcomes.

This is a UK or Europe-based position. Travel for team and client meetings is required, typically up to 15%.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a multidisciplinary team through complex projects. Plan, design, and lead the execution of business strategy activities to inform the direction of enterprise client work.
• Guide clients to the best outcome for their business and end users, thinking holistically about human needs, operational constraint, organizational culture, and technical possibility.
• Translate strategic, operational, and financial business requirements into holistic deliverables, often in novel and fluid environments that require connecting dots in real-time.
• Craft and drive digital transformation initiatives
• Plan and host collaborative workshops and work sessions with internal and external teams.
• Play an active role in new business activities to help define ways to win projects. Frame, challenge and translate client briefs into clear project proposals
• Scope projects to deliver on time and to a high standard. Demonstrate thought leadership, educate and share knowledge with others. 
• Foster a culture of curiosity on the interplay between design, product and technology that manifests in how projects are framed and executed
• Mentor and/or manage others inside and outside our Design & Strategy disciplines
• Foster a culture of curiosity on the interplay between design, product and technology that manifests in how projects are framed and executed

Qualifications:

• Fluent in English with excellent verbal/written communication and polished presentation presence. Ability to successfully articulate ideas and intent to your team and your client 
• Demonstrated success in effecting change and / or launching products or ventures in a startup or corporate environment, involving working across multiple stakeholder groups and joining dots to bring better alignment and understanding
• Experience in leading primary and secondary research from start to finish, including learning plans, approach and methods, interviews, tools, analysis and report creation 
• Ability to collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers etc. as it pertains to developing digital products
• Ability and willingness to shift working hours on a project/temporary basis depending on client need and location in order to accommodate client, team, and project needs

Effective time management skills to balance project schedules with fast-paced deadlines.

• Effective communicator both in client presentations and meetings, able to frame complicated problems in ways that are easily understood
• Understand and contribute to  statements of work, new business pursuits and project definitions. Able to spot opportunities for account growth on projects and communicate possibilities to Director/New Business
• Great interpersonal skills and the ability to galvanize and inspire others. Not afraid to ask for help when needed
• 7+ years of experience in consulting, agency, innovation, startup, project management, or a similar discipline
• 1+ year team management experience - a high level of personal awareness and appreciation of the skills of others and are an active participant in strategy and design discussions and across our global team

Location

• UK and Europe, remote first working with occasional need to be in our London office

Why Method?

We look for individuals who are smart, kind and brave. Curious people with a natural ability to think on their feet, learn fast, and develop points-of-view for a constantly changing world find Method an exciting place to work. Our employees are excited to collaborate with dispersed and diverse teams that bring together the best in thinking and making. We champion the ability to listen, and believe that critique and dissonance lead to better outcomes. We believe everyone has the capacity to lead and look for proactive individuals who can take and give direction, lead by example, enjoy the making as much as they do the thinking, especially at senior and leadership levels.

We believe in work/life balance. Seriously. We offer a ton of competitive perks, including:

• Continuing education opportunities 
• Flexible PTO and work-from-home policies 
• Pension 
• Health and dental benefits
• Company lunches, company outings, along with a lot of snacks 
• Health and wellness programs 
• Other location specific perks (just ask!)

Next Steps

If Method sounds like the place for you, please submit an application. Also, let us know if you have a presence online with a portfolio, GitHub, Dribbble or other platform.

 

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