VP, Strategy Consulting

About Us

CMB is a full-service AI-enabled insights and strategy firm based in Boston. As a Top 25 Insights & Analytics company, we help leading Global brands engage, innovate, and grow by combining market research, advanced analytics, consumer psychology, AI+HI solutions, and strategic consulting. Our people are our power, and our employee-owned culture values curiosity, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

What about our culture?Simply put, our people are our power.At CMB,we’reproud to becertified as a Great Place to Work, a recognition that reflects the diverse, inclusive, and collaborative environment our team creates every day. We bring together bright perspectives and curious minds who challenge assumptions, share ideas, and push one another to be better.

Innovation is deeply embedded in how we work. That commitment has earned us recognition as one of theGRIT Top 50 Most Innovative Companies, and itshowsupdaily in how we approach research, insights, and client impact. At CMB,you’llhave meaningful opportunities to achieve your full potential — from learning new skills and expanding yourexpertiseto advancing your career in an environment where you are supported, valued, and encouraged to innovate.

Our benefits say a lot about how much we value our employees: we offer a fully paid sabbatical, an annual wellness day, paid time off to volunteer, generous medical plans, a 401k match, and more. Every employee also gets to enjoy anemployeestock ownership plan (ESOP).

ESOP?Yes, we are 100% employee owned!An ESOP isa qualified retirement plan,similar toa 401k, but youdon’thave to make anyfinancialcontributions toparticipatein the rewards.Whenwe each work hard to provide exceptional service and deliverables to our clients, the positive performance of the company increases the value of our stock and enables the accumulation of wealth for all our employee-owners.

About the Position

The VP, Strategy Consulting is a client-facing executive responsible for leading CMB’s insights-powered and growth-focused consulting practice, expanding the firm’s role beyond serving Insights leaders to advising senior marketing, strategy, innovation, and business leaders. This person will build and lead a consulting team to address complex growth, customer, marketing, innovation, and competitive challenges. This position reports to the SVP of Growth Strategy. The primary responsibility is building and leading a consulting practice of cross-disciplinary strategists who transform our strategic insights and activation work along with our AI+HI solutions into integrated decision guidance and implementation advisory services. This role partners closely with Growth, Research, Analytics, and Industry Practice Leaders to shape opportunities from the earliest business conversations through implementation. The VP also serves as visible external leader for CMB by building relationships with senior executives, leading strategic pursuits, and establishing CMB as a distinctive insights-powered growth consultancy. This role can be hybrid in Boston or remote in the US.

About You

You are a strategy consultant and practice builder who has a reputation for establishing trust with senior leaders at large global companies. You thrive in ambiguity as a strategic systems thinker who naturally connects customer, market, competitive, and organizational insights into practical business growth strategies. Clients and colleagues seek your perspective because you simplify complexity, facilitate executive conversations, and turn evidence into practical strategies that organizations can act upon.

You are equally comfortable advising senior growth leaders, leading a strategy consulting team, and partnering with Business Development on client engagement. You are energized by the opportunity to build and grow an integrated strategy consulting practice.

About Your Background

You bring 15+ years of experience in strategy and growth consulting for Fortune 500 companiesYou have:

• Built or scaled a consulting practice, capability, solution portfolio, or multidisciplinary team.
• Developed enduring executive client relationships and generated significant consulting revenue.
• Integrated consumer and market insight, analytics, and other evidence into business and growth strategy.
• Led multidisciplinary teams spanning strategy, research, analytics, innovation, and activation.
• Demonstrated the ability to move from insights activation to growth strategy and implementation.

Responsibilities and Expectations

Here’s what you’ll be accountable for as CMB’s VP, Strategy Consulting

Lead CMB’s Strategy & Decision Enablement Practice

• Define the vision, operating model, consulting frameworks, quality standards, and talent strategy for the Strategy Consulting function.
• Build and grow a strategy team within a highly collaborative culture.
• Introduce and institutionalize new strategy and decision-enablement capabilities across CMB, equipping internal teams to understand the value of these consulting services.
• Ensure our multi-disciplinary growth strategy consultants enable decisions and deliver client impacts.
• Create a clear bridge from CMB’s research, analytics, and AI capabilities to higher-value integrated strategic advisory engagements.

Serve as CMB’s Executive Strategic Advisor

• Advise executive clients on growth, customer, innovation, competitive, and organizational decisions.
• Work with Activation team members to build decision frameworks that simplify ambiguity and align stakeholders.
• Coach your team to translate complex evidence into highly impactful executive-ready recommendations and strategic implementation guidance.
• Help our account leaders identify broader business challenges where our capabilities can create greater impact.

Drive Growth & Market Presence

• Expand executive relationships beyond traditional Insights organizations.
• Develop scalable advisory offerings and serve as a thought leader.
• Represent CMB in executive presentations, conferences, and strategic discussions.
• Recruit and mentor diverse, cross-disciplinary consulting talent and external experts.

Measures of Success

• Establish CMB as a credible and differentiated insights-powered growth consultancy.
• Establish a differentiated Strategy Consulting practice.
• Expand executive-level client relationships and strategic advisory engagements.
• Increase pipeline, revenue, and account growth through integrated consulting solutions.
• Build scalable AI enabled consulting frameworks that strengthen CMB’s market position.
• Develop a high-performing team recognized for strategic impact and client value.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Business, Strategy, Economics, Organizational Leadership, Design, Public Policy, or related field preferred.
• 15+ years of consulting and executive advisory experience for enterprise growth clients.
• Experience building consulting practices, solutions, or multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience integrating research, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, activation, implementation, and strategy.
• Experience in Travel & Hospitality, Technology & Platforms, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Retail and/or Healthcare is valuable but not required
• Strong executive facilitation, communication, commercial, and stakeholder management skills.
• Solid understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing colleagues while leading through influence in a collaborative environment.
• Curiosity about markets, consumer behavior, business strategy, and emerging technologies, including AI, with a commitment to continuous learning and innovation.

Travel

• up to 20%

*No agencyassistanceneeded*
*No visa/work authorization available*

Chadwick Martin Bailey (CMB) is an Affirmitive Action and Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply, including individuals from historically and structurally marginalized groups. Research shows that many qualified candidates apply only when they meet every listed qualification, even though few applicants meet 100% of the criteria. If this role aligns with your experience and interests, we encourage you to apply.

CMB considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the application and interview process, during employment, and in accessing employment benefits and privileges. If you require an accommodation, please contact

The annual base salary range for this position is$180,000 - $200,000plusbonus, benefits, and an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). The base salary is dependent on a variety of factors including (but not limited to) experience,expertise, skills, and employee’s location.