Director - Strategy & Transformation Practice

About Company

• Cedar is a Forbes ranked global management consulting
• firm whose heritage includes being part of the founded by the creators of the
• Balanced Scorecard. Since 1985, Cedar's teams have been assisting clients in
• areas of strategy, process, strategic human capital, and technology, with a
• strong focus on the financial services sector www.cedar-consulting.com will
• tell you more.
• Cedar’s group unit, IBS Intelligence
• (www.ibsintelligence.com), based in the UK has been the definitive source for
• research, news-analysis and advisory specialized in Financial Technology
• markets, for over 30 years. Cedar Hill Capital is an independent $20mn FinTech
• venture capital fund with a sharp lens on B2B FinTech and Financial
• Services-infrastructure companies. The Cedar FinTech Innovation Lab in Dubai
• and Mumbai brings banks & technology companies together with an opportunity
• to access the relevant Middle East and India market opportunity.

Job Summary

• The Director will leverage Cedar's 40+ year heritage
• and deep body of work advising leadership teams across industries, bringing the
• credibility and conviction of a firm with a proven track record of shaping
• strategy and leading transformation at the highest levels.
• This is a dual-mandate role combining business
• development and project delivery. You will originate and convert client
• engagements, shape mandates from initial conversations through to proposal and
• close, and lead the delivery of strategy and transformation projects
• end-to-end. You will be a senior face of Cedar in the market and a trusted
• partner to C-suite clients.

Key responsibilities/ deliverables

-Client Development

Originate and

qualify new mandates across target accounts and sectors

Build

• trusted-advisor relationships with CEOs, COOs, and leadership teams
• Lead proposal
• development, problem framing, and scope negotiation
• Represent Cedar at
• industry forums, networks, and thought leadership events
• Contribute to the
• firm's market positioning and practice development

-Project Delivery

• Lead strategy
• definition, competitive assessment, and growth planning engagements
• Design and guide
• operating model redesign and organizational transformation
• Manage complex,
• multi-workstream projects with senior client stakeholders
• Synthesize findings
• and present recommendations at board and C-suite level

Develop Cedar's

intellectual property, frameworks, and reusable assets

-Practice Focus areas

Strategy

Corporate &

business unit strategy

Competitive

• positioning & market analysis
• Growth strategy
• & new market entry
• Portfolio strategy
• & capital allocation
• Strategic planning
• processes & governance

Transformation

Operating model

design & redesign

Large-scale

organizational transformation

Post-merger

integration & carve-outs

Digital &

• technology-enabled transformation
• Change management
• & executive alignment

Candidate profile

-Experience & Background

• 15+ years of
• experience, with at least 10 in a consulting or advisory capacity
• Prior experience at
• a strategy consulting firm strongly preferred
• Demonstrated track
• record of originating and closing client engagements
• Deep expertise in at
• least two of the practice focus areas listed above

Experience managing

multi-stakeholder projects at senior organizational levels

-Skills & Attributes

Exceptional

• executive presence and communication skills
• Strong commercial
• instinct — able to spot and shape client opportunities
• Analytical rigor
• combined with practical implementation judgment
• Collaborative,
• low-ego, builder mindset suited to a boutique environment
• Comfort with
• ambiguity and ability to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics