Senior Lead Strategy & Planning Consultant in Consumer Banking driving enterprise strategy and planning. Leading initiatives for branch growth and workforce enablement with a focus on analytics and strategic problem-solving.
Responsibilities
Lead enterprise-wide strategy initiatives and guide the resolution of highly complex business challenges requiring long-term vision and innovation.
Translate complex data, analytics, financial impacts, and future-states scenarios into clear, executive-ready insights and recommendations.
Influence senior and executive leaders across HR, finance, operations, analytics, and field organizations to drive enterprise-scale change without authority.
Develop future-state models, benchmarking insights, and quantitative analyses that shape business strategy and operating models.
Establish scalable role architectures, job families, accountability models, and span-of-control structures aligned to productivity, cost-to-serve, and risk insights.
Drive role simplification and standardization through fact-based assessments, impact analysis, and alignment to enterprise priorities.
Design roles with integrated responsibilities, decision rights, skills, performance expectations, and risk ownership linked to KPIs and business outcomes.
Conduct structured risk, control, and process assessments to ensure roles support compliance, efficiency, and clarity.
Identify capability gaps using workforce analytics, skills data, and forecasting, then design strategies to close them.
Partner with HR and learning teams to develop role-based learning paths, progression models, and proficiency frameworks.
Reinforce a performance-driven culture through analytics, feedback loops, and performance insights.
Create role playbooks, decision frameworks, escalation paths, and enablement tools that support consistency and execution.
Establish governance standards, decision criteria, and success measures to ensure role strategy is scalable, aligned, and risk-aware.
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on role strategy, workforce design, and organizational effectiveness.
Own end-to-end delivery of role strategy initiatives with rigorous execution tracking, performance monitoring, and disciplined leadership.
Requirements
7+ years of Strategy and Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
5+ years of banking, financial services or branch banking experience
Experience leading enterprise-level strategies and initiatives supporting branch banking operating models
5+ years of management or leadership experience
Experience in role strategy, workforce design, or operating model design; strong knowledge of branch operating models and branch roles
Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into role architectures, capabilities, and performance expectations at scale
Executive-level strategic planning and execution experience
Advanced analytical capability, including synthesizing complex datasets into executive-ready insights and recommendations
Strong stakeholder management, change leadership, and independent execution skills
Benefits
Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
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