Strategy Senior Consultant

About Mormedi

We are a global boutique, strategic design, and innovation consultancy. We help our clients create products, services and experiences that delight customers and that fuel growth. By blending strategy, creativity, technology, and business insight to design and deliver the most meaningful solutions.

Introduction

We are seeking a passionate, experienced strategy professional to complement our team as a Senior in our Madrid studio. You will have significant experience and knowledge and will work hand-in-hand with the leadership team to inspire and motivate our team, our clients, and our clients’ customers.

Key capacities include the ability to approach projects creatively and deliver excellence, while transmitting proactiveness and ambition to the team and our clients, lead multiple smaller projects or one larger project, and run client presentations.

In this role you will:

Be an important content leader within the studio environment, guiding junior members of the team.

Lead several small projects or one big project taking on full responsibility for content and profitability.

Be confident in leading client presentations and direct the team to support these.

Be a natural communicator and bring a positive energy to any conversation with purpose and vision.

Be business savvy and can identify opportunities and see the potential in any project or client engagement.

Project thought leadership in your field as well as the ability to create original content.

Apply and evolve your expertise in design and business strategy.

Understand other design disciplines and processes (across Design, Brand, Digital) as well as new technologies and industry developments (AR, VR, AI, wearables, etc.).

Responsibilities

You will make significant contributions to the strategy design practice. You will help the leadership team to consolidate and evolve Mormedi methodology expertise related to Design and Business Strategy.

• Definition and in project supervision of methodological approaches.
• Coaching and training the team in new methodologies.
• Foment integration and cross-discipline practice with Mormedi design disciplines.

In guiding multidisciplinary project teams, you will:

• Train and cultivate understanding client need with a global vision of the project priorities. Navigate complex projects and transmit confidence to the client.
• Train your ability to lead, guide and empower multidisciplinary project teams by taking on a specific phase or work stream within a given project.
• Play a key role in all aspects of the execution of a project, act as a connection between senior and junior members of the team – ensuring that methodologies and processes are implemented correctly, that the outputs have excellent quality while also keeping in mind the profitability of the project.
• Supervise and train junior members of the team, giving guidance on correct application of methodologies and on content quality.
• Create exquisite deliverables and content, with on-time delivery and invoicing according to established project plan and in compliance with Mormedi quality standards.
• Collaborate with other team members (Design and Digital) to ensure coherence regarding teamwork, approach, deliverables - as well as fostering an overall sense of Mormedi community.

Business development – you will detect commercial opportunities and involve senior members of the team in order to evaluate how to push them forward. You will also support Mormedi business development meetings, and assist in proposal writing (Strategic POV, Methodology, Content).

Marketing support – you will participate in relevant events / conferences and create content (articles and presentations) that help to position Mormedi as a thought leader and increase its competitive edge.

Skills

Emerging leadership skills– train ability to manage projects, giving important inputs to leadership on how to establish resource and planning priorities, efficient planning and follow up, periodic reporting of project status and key information to leadership team.

Strategic thinking – confidence and maturity in strategic leadership. Experience in leading and facilitating the project process within a multidisciplinary team context and for highly complex projects with international focus. Excellent analysis and synthesis skills.

Methodology expertise – deep knowledge of Design and/or Business Strategy fields and methodologies, didactic ability to transmit knowledge to team, and a fluid ability to devise methods to apply them in projects. Basic knowledge of other disciplines and areas such as design, UX/UI, data analysis, programming, product development, emerging technologies or any other technical area are highly appreciated.

Ability to lead and motivate – proactively foment a positive working environment and excellent teamwork culture while ensuring quality of deliverables and project profitability.

Project management – train ability to manage projects, giving important inputs to Senior team members how to establish resource and planning priorities, efficient planning and follow up, periodic reporting of project status and key information to leadership team.

Project management and content creation tools – excellent knowledge and expertise in project management software as well as tools used for content creation; ability to train and coach team in the use of these tools to deliver highly attractive deliverables in the requested timeframes; ability to create and/or direct the creation of presentations with a compelling storytelling component.

Oral, visual and written communication – ability and maturity regarding all levels of communication; ability to create visually compelling and clear deliverables.

Software

Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign)

Languages – high professional proficiency in English and Spanish, a third language is appreciated.

Alignment with Mormedi values

Proactiveness and personal commitment

Teamwork and collaborative spirit

Excellence

Continuous improvement and growth

Healthy client relationships

Rigor and structure for task and processes

Responsible and ethical

Efficient use of Mormedi resources

Positive attitude

Clear and transparent communication

Experience

Minimum 5+ years of experience in the context of Design / Business Strategy.

Qualifications

An appropriate Bachelor or master’s qualification, the ability to travel when needed and permission to live and work in Spain.