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Strategy and Transformation Consultant
North HollandHybridHours negotiable<3months
A consulting firm is supporting technology leaders at major retailers through a number of strategic engagements. You will work as part of a team alongside in-house consultants, reporting to a member of the leadership team, and help CTOs shape how their technology organizations run, decide, and deliver.
Current and upcoming opportunities include:
- Supporting a CTO following the merger of regional technology departments into one, covering how the leadership team should operate and how to set up a CTO office.
- Partnering with CTO-1 leadership to shape, document, and drive the convergence plan following the merger of regional technology departments.
- Establishing an AI-enabled CTO office, rethinking processes and ways of working, and using AI solutions.
- Acting as a strategic thinking partner to a CTO, answering key technology questions and preparing updates for the C-suite.
- Supporting a CTO to drive improvements and modernization of security and disaster recovery strategy.
- Supporting a large-scale, multi-country data transformation by setting up an EU-level DMO and governance model.
What you will do.
- Break down strategic technology questions into clear problem statements, hypotheses, and workplans.
- Help design technology operating models, including leadership team set-up, governance, CTO office structure, processes, and ways of working.
- Run the analysis: fact-finding, stakeholder interviews, data gathering, and synthesis into clear recommendations.
- Build executive-ready storylines and materials for CTO and C-suite audiences.
- Work within a team, contributing ideas, structure, and challenge, and taking direction from the engagement lead.
- Build trusted working relationships with senior client stakeholders across technology and the business.
- Get up to speed quickly and add value from week one.
What they ask
- 4-10 years’ experience, including a strong grounding in strategy or technology consulting at a top-tier consulting firm.
- Proven experience on technology strategy, operating model, or transformation work at a senior level.
- Excellent structured problem-solving and hypothesis-driven thinking.
- Strong executive communication, with the ability to turn complex analysis into a clear C-suite narrative.
- A collaborative, low-ego working style and comfort working within a team led by leadership.
- Fluent English and EU work authorization.
Nice-to-haves.
- Experience designing or setting up a CTO office, or integrating technology functions after a merger.
- Exposure to AI-enabled ways of working or process redesign.
- Expertise in Cyber Security and Disaster Recovery.
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