Strategy & Analytics Engagement Manager
Cartesian’s Strategy & Analytics practice has a 35+ year track record helping companies and investors develop and implement market-leading strategies to solve crucial business challenges.
We take a data/technology-focused approach to help our clients develop business strategies, evaluate market opportunities, assess and improve performance, and drive customer/revenue growth. Our work spans many functional areas including sales/marketing, product, customer experience, operations, network planning, and security. As a boutique consulting practice, we use our subject matter expertise, data-driven methodologies, and creative problem-solving skills to rapidly drive meaningful, measurable results.
We have an immediate need for a Manager at our office in Boston, Massachusetts. We are looking for individuals with a strong educational background and 4-6 years of consulting experience to support our continued growth and expanding client base.
Our managers are highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and intellectually curious problem-solvers. This position requires the ability to lead end-to-end engagements with teams of 2-5 consultants, which includes client management, workstream definition/oversight, analysis structuring, research planning/execution, strategy definition, and deliverable creation/delivery to internal and external clients in a fun, fast paced, driven environment.
You’re a great fit if you have:
- 4-6 years of relevant consulting experience, with at least 1-2 years successfully overseeing impactful engagements with strategy/analytics themes
- A strong interest in the communications, media, and technology sectors
- A proven track record of navigating complex/ambiguous problems to develop thoughtful/innovative solutions that are aligned with client objectives
- A passion for working with large datasets to inform recommendations
- An ability to break down complicated ideas, processes, and data into intuitive visual frameworks
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, and a natural ability to build and tell compelling executive narratives, while maintaining a strong command of the underlying detail
- A self-starter drive to proactively set priorities and execute against them in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
- Demonstrated success managing and mentoring consultants/analysts
- Experience overseeing teams that use a range of data tools/languages to conduct/automate analysis and derive insights (e.g., Alteryx, SQL, QGIS, Python, R, Tableau, Qlik, etc.)
- MBA preferred, but not required
Additionally, experience in the following areas is a plus:
- Corporate strategy development
- Business case development and financial analysis
- Market/competitive analysis and opportunity prioritization
- Sales and marketing optimization
- Product and customer analytics
- Qualitative/quantitative primary market research
- Machine learning, predictive modeling, and geospatial analytics
- Communications networks, including technology, design, and engineering
- Data process design and automation
The position has low travel requirements for most engagements; however, this can vary depending on client needs.
Location: Boston
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