Senior Strategy Consultant

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

As a Senior Strategy consultant in our Strategy team, you will shape meaningful strategic outcomes for clients by tackling their most complex customer, digital, and business transformation challenges. You will work directly with senior executives to translate ambiguity into structured strategic insight, drive analytical clarity, and deliver recommendations that influence critical decisions and set the direction for large‑scale change.

 

You come from a leading strategy or management consulting firm and bring strong experience across customer strategy, experience design, digital strategy, and enterprise transformation. You have a sharp commercial mindset, a strong grasp of how digital and AI are reshaping operating models, and the ability to connect strategic intent with practical pathways to execution.

 

Here at Publicis Sapient, you will work across a broad portfolio of high‑impact engagements, from customer and digital strategy to transformation design, cost productivity, operating model re‑design, market analysis, scenario modelling, and business case development. You will be exposed to intellectually demanding work across industries, supported by a collaborative team, and positioned to play a central role in helping clients navigate complexity, accelerate performance, and realise long‑term strategic value.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex and ambiguous business or technology problems into clear opportunity areas through direct stakeholder engagement, targeted research, and structured business analysis—delivering well‑defined, actionable recommendations.

• Bring analytical rigor to client decision‑making by contributing to cost–benefit analyses, developing and assessing solution options, and facilitating alignment and consensus among key stakeholders.

• Define, scope, and design new client solutions, including establishing measurable business outcomes, modelling current and future business and technology capabilities, and identifying the organisational, cultural, and operational changes required to unlock value.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience working with a leading strategy or management consulting practice with exposure to strategy and transformation across digital strategy, customer strategy and experience, and/or broader management consulting.
• Experience supporting client engagement, including planning and facilitating interviews, meetings, and working sessions to progress project outcomes.
• Strong point of view on digital and AI, including how emerging technologies reshape customer expectations, drive operational efficiencies, and impact client operating models.
• Strong ownership of deliverables, with the ability to design high‑quality outputs, delegate effectively, and oversee the quality of work produced by junior team members when required
• Proven ability to lead workstreams to tight timeframes and within scope, while effectively managing expectations of senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the sales cycle, with demonstrated experience supporting proposal development and contributing to the identification and shaping of new business opportunities.
• Exceptional problem‑solving skills, with the ability to deconstruct complex issues into components for structured analysis and root‑cause diagnosis.
• Highly resilient, composed, and adaptable, with excellent communication and analytical skills—able to stay calm under pressure, think on their feet, and deliver outstanding written, verbal, numerical, and presentation outputs.
• A collaborative and authentic team contributor who brings positive energy and humour, lifts the performance of others, and knows when to engage actively and when to observe thoughtfully.
• Australian citizen with existing Baseline Clearance, or the eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

Additional Information

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]