Strategy Consultants
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Chris Wolf
Last position:
Senior Strategy Advisor, Transformation Lead – program realignment with target picture, governance, and priority steering at Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe | S-Communication Services
In-house consulting provider and driver of transformation within the group, multi-stakeholder environment and C-level.
Realignment and stabilization of a cross-functional transformation and scaling program within the group. Sharpening the target picture, priorities, and set of measures, as well as building reliable governance, planning, and steering structures. Structuring roles, responsibilities, and strategic initiatives while including AI and IT automation ideas.
Designed program realignment and project portfolio management
Developed strategy model and target picture for IT projects
Structured portfolio, roadmap, and priorities
Established governance and regular meetings
Worked out operating model for flagship projects
Assessed AI and automation ideas
Clarified roles and responsibilities
Implemented change measures
Developed, moderated, and evaluated workshops
Transformed 17 initiatives into a steering model
Increased transparency and decision-making ability
Strengthened commitment in steering
Sharpened the operating model structurally
Integrated three top-5 institutes
Involved over 80% of stakeholders
Governance
Portfolio steering (PPM)
Change management
Artificial intelligence
Workflow automation
AI use case assessment
Confluence
Jira
Stakeholder management
Antje Baumann
Last position:
AI Strategy Consultant, Change Manager at SMEs (various marketing boutiques, IT & office services)
AI Strategy & Enablement for SMEs Management consulting – SMEs (e.g. marketing boutique, IT & office services)
Concept and delivery of structured AI introduction and strategy workshops for small and medium-sized businesses. Result: Practical AI status assessment, prioritized use case list, and management decision template as the basis for the next steps in the company’s AI development.
Activities
- Needs analysis and individual preparation of the consulting formats
- Facilitation of a structured AI status assessment including vision, mission, and target picture
- Identification and prioritization of relevant AI use cases and action fields
- Creation of management decision templates and roadmaps
- Raising awareness for opportunities, risks, and success factors of AI introduction
- Support for first customers with AI-supported automation scenarios
- Supporting people and teams through the change process of AI introduction (CM)
Methods / Tools / Technologies
Methods:
- AI status assessment & use case analysis
- Workshop moderation / facilitation
- Requirement Management
- Change Management (PROSCI)
Tools:
- Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude)
- Automation/AI coding tools (e.g. n8n, Claude Code, Visual Studio, Antigravity)
Technologies:
- Prompt engineering
- AI workflow automation
Ali Catak
Last position:
Founder & Strategist at Wants & Needs UG (limited liability)
Focus areas:
- Strategy & Business Development
- CRM & Retention
- Customer Experience & Journey Management
- Customer Value/CLV
- Growth & Go-to-Market, as well as Business/IT Transformation
- Strategic analysis, target operating models, assessments, business cases, and concept development and implementation management
Stefan Fröhlich
Last position:
Managing Partner & Co-Founder at IMPLENEX
- Founded, built, and scaled a management consultancy for go-to-market, growth, and digital transformation
- End-to-end brand building: CI/CD, website, and social media presence as a consistent digital footprint
- Built a B2B marketing & sales funnel incl. CRM for structured lead generation
- Developed and built a service portfolio & verticals: including an AI Board for strategic GenAI classification as well as a go-to-market/growth vertical for the food industry
- Built a partner network for co-delivery
- Acquired, onboarded, and delivered consulting engagements
Sebastiano Guzzanti
Last position:
Interim Manager & Strategic Advisor | Organization, People, Process & Digitalization at Sebastiano Guzzanti Solutions
- Strategic consulting: End-to-end optimization of SCM, processes, and structures based on 30 years of industry experience.
- Interim management: Leadership responsibility to bridge vacancies and stabilize teams during transformations.
- Transformation & Assets: Support for restructurings, asset utilization & brokerage (surplus assets), and digitalization (SAP S/4HANA).
Corinna Schmidt
Last position:
Strategic Advisor Brand and Change at Targobank
- Strategic consulting for the Head of Brand on brand strategy and change processes
- Analysis of existing processes, resources, and interfaces within the team as well as with internal and external stakeholders
- Development and implementation of recommendations for action to improve processes and increase efficiency
- Project management and change management for the successful implementation of measures
- Management and selection of external service providers to ensure smooth execution
- Optimization of internal processes and interfaces through in-depth analysis and recommendations for action
- Effective acceleration of decision-making and management processes in brand management
- Successful management of external service providers and agencies for more efficient workflows and higher quality
Muhammad Babur
Last position:
Data Engineer | Strategy Consultant at IBM
Responsibilities
- Facilitated financial institutions in Oracle FCUBS upgrade and data migration.
- Developed Core Banking ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, PL/SQL, PySpark and Databricks to ingest, transform and validate transaction data with MLflow for experiment tracking and model lifecycle management.
- Built scalable data solutions using Snowflake, Delta Lake, AWS (Glue, S3, Redshift) and Azure MS Fabric for secure high-performance analytics.
- Orchestrated workflows with Airflow and CI/CD using GitLab for automated deployments monitoring operations.
- Enabled reporting and analytics via Data Warehousing & BI tools (Power BI, Power Query, OBIEE, SSRS) to support compliance, and business decisions.
Jörn Menninger
Last position:
Freelance Senior Business Analyst / Project Lead / Digital Strategy Consultant at Freiberuflich
- Freelance consulting for startups, fintechs, SMEs, banks, financial service providers, and established companies on strategic, organizational, and technological topics; focus on analysis, structuring, execution readiness, and stakeholder communication.
- Gathering, structuring, and prioritizing business requirements; translating business goals into actionable IT, process, data, and documentation requirements.
- Designing and improving digital platforms, user journeys, portal structures, information architecture, and data-driven product/content structures; strong fit for customer portals, partner portals, and B2B2C application journeys.
- Analyzing user, reach, search, and platform data to derive product, content, and platform decisions; structuring decision bases for management and delivery teams.
- Using Jira, Confluence, Excel, analytics, and automation tools; working in agile and hybrid delivery environments.
Thomas Gaiser
Last position:
Interim Digital Product Manager at Novartis Pharma GmbH
- Defined and established a clear product strategy and roadmap to align product development with business goals and market trends
- Led and prioritized product requirements for cross-functional, international stakeholder groups (TA, brand family, content managers, legal)
- Efficiently managed the development process in international agile teams for on-time and on-budget delivery of critical product releases
- Led product launch and marketing activities in coordination with channel orchestration experts
- Monitored and analyzed product performance metrics (KPIs) to optimize and maximize business value with data-driven insights
Boris Saydakov
Last position:
Founder at Vivaqui
Founded and launched Vivaqui.app - a two-sided local services marketplace, executing a full platform build, validation, pre-launch brand pivot, from neighborhood concept to feel-good wellness discovery platform.
Katharina Neumann
Last position:
Consultant Global Communications & Corporate Branding/ Strategic Brand & Marketing Project Lead at Merck
Project management for the development, launch, and company-wide implementation of the strategic realignment of the brand based on the new corporate vision (CEO-driven transformation project).
Key responsibilities:
- Designing, enhancing, and implementing the global brand and communication strategy (internal and external) to strengthen strategic positioning, including follow-up concepts for internal identification with the new corporate vision (cross-country implementation with over 60k employees) and external activation.
- Developing and executing new global campaigns across owned and paid channels, including channel strategy, (social) media strategy, and creative concepts.
- Developing and implementing a data-driven approach to manage and optimize brand communication.
- Managing internal communication on strategic topics, including internal events.
- Leading interdisciplinary project teams and collaborating with stakeholders across various functions and hierarchy levels.
- Budget responsibility and managing and integrating external agencies and service providers.
- Driving the integration of AI into brand management and communication.
- Acting as a strategic sparring partner for organization design and the further development of the division strategy and project roadmap in corporate branding. Result: Implemented the global brand and communication strategy and established data-driven and AI-supported foundations for future-ready brand management, strengthened internal anchoring of the corporate vision, and significantly advanced the transformation of corporate branding; awarded the CEO Award.
Nikos Kotsakis
Last position:
Senior UX Research & Experience Lead at RS Components
- Led end-to-end discovery and exploratory research to assess user needs, market readiness, and product viability for a workflow management and collaboration proposition
- Identified structural misalignment between concept assumptions and real engineering workflows, preventing premature delivery escalation and investment exposure
- Demonstrated through research evidence that the initial proposition was premature, preventing delivery escalation
- Reframed the value proposition based on evidence and initiated a renewed discovery cycle grounded in observed field practices
- Designed research plans and synthesis frameworks to inform roadmap prioritisation and reduce delivery risk
- Contributed to research operations setup, clarifying team roles and collaboration patterns to support continuous discovery
- Supported alignment between product, delivery, and leadership stakeholders through structured insight communication
- Scale: global platform launched as Think Hub (EU, UK, US, Asia)
Adam Shrimpton
Last position:
Senior B2B Strategy Consultant at One Asia Market Consulting
Strategy consulting and primary B2B fieldwork for financial services, fintech, and tech firms.
- Strategy & Diligence: Building the primary evidence base for GTM pivots, global market entry, and investment/growth diligence across the US, APAC, and EMEA.
- C-Suite & Expert Moderation: Unscripted qualitative moderation with C-suite and technical decision-makers, and quantitative survey design using Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) and pricing frameworks (van Westendorp, Gabor-Granger).
- Institutional Reporting: Transforming complex multi-market data into board-ready strategic reports and actionable competitive intelligence.
- Cross-Border Execution: Delivering fieldwork across five languages, reaching decision-makers and market nuance that translated or synthetic approaches miss.
- AI & Tooling Commercial Diligence: Diagnostic work assessing where AI/agentic tooling costs and adoption claims hold up under scrutiny, supporting vendor evaluation and cost governance decisions.
I conduct work in English, Spanish, German, French, and Japanese, enabling primary-source research across markets that automated tools and junior teams cannot reach.
Marc Pedri
Last position:
Digital Strategy Consultant at EVO Creations
Retail AI Transformation: Led the transition of bespoke AI conversational models into a scalable, luxury-tier chatbot platform for Florentia Village (China), reducing operational costs to 20% while providing a multi-tenant solution for retail stakeholders, increasing revenue through AI-driven sales recommendations.
Consumer Tech Innovation: Developed an AI real-time automation engine for Philips live-streaming, enabling automated Q&A and sentiment analysis to enhance high-pressure sales performance
Pharma Digital Strategy: Engagement lead, consultant and orchestration of Omnichannel transformation for Grünenthal across 14 countries, leading SteerCo meetings, managing financials + RAIDs + QRBs across 192 projects, liaising between C-Level (EU/US), Global Omnichannel head, Global Customer Excellence, Global Marketing Heads and Outsourcing hub (India), driving revenue to 160%.
Governance & RAID: Implemented rigorous project governance, plans, and RAID logs for high-pressure digital transformations, ensuring SteerCo visibility and cross-functional alignment across various engagements.
Product Manager (Conversational Analytics Platform): Led the end-to-end development of a state-of-the-art NLP-based analytics platform. Defined the product roadmap and user stories, and managed the engineering team from MVP to launch.
US-to-EU market entry: Directed the digital infrastructure for a major US-to-EU market entry, aligning global dev teams with European regulatory standards.
Christoph Werneke
Last position:
Vice President and Market Leader Germany at Resources Global Professionals
- Successful market entry for a US-based Consulting company listed on NASDAQ.
- Quality oversight of a project portfolio with a seven-figure turnover.
- Industry-agnostic approach with a focus on project execution.
- Management of a marketing & sales team of 5 FTE.
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Strategy Consultant statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
20 years
Position duration
3.3 years
Positions per freelancer
10
Top business areas
Strategy, Project Management, Marketing
Top industries
Professional Services, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Human Resources
Bachelor's degree or higher
96%
Master's degree or higher
76%
Doctorate
12%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 21 Aug 2026.
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About the role
What they do
A strategy consultant helps companies define where to play and how to win. They turn vague goals into clear choices, then shape the plan behind them. Typical work includes market and competitor analysis, growth strategy, portfolio decisions, operating model design, and executive workshop support.
- Clarify the business problem and decision to be made
- Build a fact base from internal data and market research
- Test strategic options and compare scenarios
- Prepare recommendations for leadership teams and boards
- Support the handover into implementation
Core skills
Strong strategy consultants combine structured thinking with commercial judgment. They can work from limited data, ask the right questions, and keep a room focused on the real issue. Common tools include Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, BI dashboards, and market research sources. Many also work with frameworks such as SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, value chain analysis, and scenario planning.
- Clear problem solving and hypothesis-based analysis
- Financial and commercial understanding
- Executive communication and workshop facilitation
- Strong slide writing and decision support material
- Comfortable working with management teams and specialists
When to bring one in
Companies hire a freelance strategy consultant when they need outside perspective, extra capacity, or a specific project lead. This is common for new market entry, pricing work, strategic refreshes, due diligence support, post-merger integration, and transformation programs. A freelancer is often the better choice when the work is project-based, sensitive, or time critical.
What strong consultants deliver
A good strategy consultant does more than produce slides. They build a clear line from evidence to recommendation and make the next step easy to execute. That usually means a concise deck, a decision memo, a workshop output, a business case, or a roadmap with owners and priorities.
- Insight that is relevant, not generic
- Recommendations that are specific and realistic
- Clean structure that leaders can use quickly
- Stakeholder management across functions
- Focus on implementation, not just analysis
Common profiles
Searches for this role often include management consultant, strategy advisor, and business consultant. In some projects, companies also look for former consultants who have worked in corporate strategy, growth strategy, or transformation roles. The exact title matters less than the ability to shape a decision and guide it through the organization.
Working style
Freelance strategy consultants can work fully remote or on site, depending on the project. Remote work fits research, analysis, and deck development well. On-site time is useful for leadership workshops, interviews, and sensitive discussions. The best consultants adapt to the client’s pace, speak the language of the business, and keep the process disciplined from first brief to final recommendation.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Strategy Consultant.
A Strategy Consultant helps define the problem, build the fact base, and turn findings into clear choices. The work often includes market analysis, competitive review, business model design, and a recommendation for leadership. In freelance setups, the consultant usually owns a focused project or workstream and delivers a decision-ready output.
A freelance strategy consultant is a good fit when the work is temporary, urgent, or highly specific. Companies often choose a freelancer for a market entry, pricing review, board paper, or transformation program. It is also useful when internal teams need external perspective without adding permanent headcount.
Look for structured thinking, strong business judgment, and the ability to communicate clearly with leadership. A good consultant can work with data, build scenarios, and create a convincing narrative in PowerPoint or a memo. They should also handle interviews, workshops, and stakeholder alignment without losing focus on the decision.
A management consultant often covers broader change or operational topics, while a business analyst is usually more focused on data, processes, or reporting. A strategy consultant is centered on the big choices: where to compete, how to grow, and what to prioritize. In practice, the titles can overlap, but the strategic framing should be clear.
Most projects end with a concise deck, a recommendation memo, a roadmap, or a business case. A strong strategy consultant may also deliver a workshop summary, scenario analysis, or market sizing model. The exact format should match the decision the client needs to make.
Many parts of the work can be done remotely, especially research, analysis, and presentation development. On-site time is valuable for leadership interviews, workshops, and sensitive alignment sessions. The best setup is often hybrid, with the consultant present when the work depends on people and discussion.
Judge the consultant by the clarity of their thinking, not by the thickness of the deck. Strong strategy consultant work shows a clear question, a logical path from evidence to answer, and recommendations that a real team can execute. References from similar projects and a strong sample of past work help a lot.
They need a clear brief, access to relevant data, and a decision owner who can unblock questions quickly. A good strategy consultant also needs access to key stakeholders and enough context on the business, market, and constraints. The more concrete the problem statement, the faster the work becomes useful.
The average hourly rate for Strategy Consultant is 123 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 980 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Strategy Consultant, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 76% hold at least a Master's degree, and 12% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Strategy Consultant have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Strategy Consultant are English (98%), German (90%), and Spanish (26%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Strategy Consultant are Professional Services (75%), Information Technology (71%), and Manufacturing (43%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Strategy Consultant are Strategy (94%), Project Management (83%), and Marketing (71%).
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