Senior Vice President of Strategy

Overview

Lead and evolve Valtech's strategy practice across the Americas as a senior executive, serving as a trusted advisor to client leaders, shaping pursuits, defining offerings, and building an AI-native strategy function.

What you'll do

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive client leaders, including CMOs and CIOs, on the intersection of brand strategy, customer experience, data, technology, and AI.
• Develop and defend strategic points of view on personalization, data activation, AI, and growth.
• Connect brand differentiation with data-driven customer engagement strategies.
• Advise organizations on how AI is transforming content production, marketing operations, and the broader customer experience ecosystem.
• Build trusted relationships that open, expand, and strengthen client partnerships.
• Shape opportunities before formal pursuit phases by helping clients define business challenges and strategic priorities.
• Partner with account teams to identify, qualify, and develop high-value opportunities.
• Bring a compelling perspective across brand, creative, data, AI, and technology solutions.
• Guide pursuit strategy and support proposal and RFP development activities.
• Evaluate pursuit investment decisions and prioritize opportunities with the highest strategic value and growth potential.
• Lead strategic pursuit narratives from opportunity identification through final client presentations.
• Develop compelling solution stories and differentiated value propositions.
• Collaborate with commercial and pricing teams to align strategic positioning with commercial models.
• Coach and support presenting teams during client decision-making processes.
• Capture lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful pursuits and translate insights into future improvements.
• Transform market and client insights into scalable, repeatable service offerings.
• Define how strategy, brand, data activation, personalization, and AI offerings are packaged, positioned, and sold.
• Continuously evolve offerings in response to changes in technology, AI capabilities, and market demand.
• Partner across practices to ensure integrated solutions and consistent client experiences.
• Represent Valtech at industry conferences, executive forums, analyst briefings, and client events.
• Develop original intellectual property, research, and thought leadership content.
• Build awareness of Valtech's AI-native positioning and experience innovation capabilities.
• Strengthen relationships with analysts, strategic partners, and key industry influencers.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of strategists across the Americas.
• Establish scalable operating models, tools, and ways of working for the strategy practice.
• Partner closely with Creative, Data & AI, and Technology leaders to deliver integrated client outcomes.
• Define and implement AI-native approaches to research, synthesis, strategic development, pursuit support, and practice operations.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in strategy consulting, digital consulting, business transformation, or a related advisory discipline.
• Proven success advising CMOs, marketing leaders, and executive stakeholders on business growth and transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to engage credibly with CIOs and technology leaders on the relationship between technology investments and business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of customer experience, brand strategy, data activation, personalization, and AI-driven transformation.
• Experience leading complex, multidisciplinary pursuits from qualification through deal closure.
• Strong track record of building and scaling high-performing strategy or advisory teams.
• Experience defining operating models, methodologies, and business practices for growing consulting organizations.
• Proven ability to establish and scale AI-enabled or AI-native approaches within strategy and consulting environments.
• Excellent executive communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
• Ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations and influence stakeholders across multiple functions.

Nice to have

• External market presence through speaking engagements, published thought leadership, analyst engagement, or industry participation.
• Experience working across brand, marketing, data, and technology transformation initiatives.
• Established relationships with strategic alliance or technology partners.
• Experience supporting global clients and large-scale transformation programs.
• Experienced in Agile methodologies and consulting.

Details

• Full-time position based in the USA.
• Remote work location.
• Salary range: $120,000 CAD - $150,000 USD annually, depending on experience and location.