Role & Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership in identifying and synthesizing current strategies, operational processes, and issues; creatively sharing learnings and insights via frameworks, spreadsheets, and presentations; and, prioritizing areas to address based on business impact and importance.
- Shape a clear understanding of desired outcomes, pain points, strategic guidelines, non-functional requirements (e.g., timeliness), analytical needs, and emerging or future requirements.
- Seek to understand, represent, and respond to the customer/user voice in all strategy and solutioning, subject to reasonable economics and market realities.
- Lead the development of innovative ideas and solutions from a business perspective, especially in the areas of digital and AI strategy, data and analytics, and operating models, based on pre-existing knowledge and experience, resourcefulness and research, and thoughtful analysis.
- Guide the project team in the shaping and delivery of a future-state with compelling business value.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, ensuring alignment between strategy and/or solution development and the client’s broader business strategy.
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver work-products and final deliverables with tight and compelling storylines supported by relevant and thoughtful analysis.
Hard Skills - Must have:
- Proven expertise in digital strategy and business transformation initiatives.
- Comfort discussing AI, digital strategy, data & analytics, and operating model concepts with executives and team members with a market-relevant understanding of each, preferrably with real-world experience in each.
- Strong primary research skills, including interviewing senior stakeholders and synthesizing data into actionable insights.
- Experience in process analysis and improvement, with the ability to document and optimize workflows.
- Proficiency with analytical methods and spreadsheets.
- Comfort with developing and/or enhancing frameworks to convey a point or crystalize insights.
Soft Skills / Business Specific Skills:
- A critical thinking mindset with the ability to solve complex problems and think on your feet.
- Strong organizational and project management skills to oversee multiple workstreams.
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to inspire and align cross-functional teams.
- Previous experience in management consulting or a similar strategic role is highly desirable.
- Continuous lifelong learning orientation and an enthusiasm to drive self-development.
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What We Do
Allata (pronounced a-ley-ta) is a strategy, architecture and enterprise-level application development company focused on helping clients enhance or scale business opportunities, create efficiencies and automate processes through custom technologies. We are building a different kind of firm – focused on doing exciting, transformational work for great clients and bringing caring and dedicated people to make our clients goals a reality. Our vision is to build an energized group of talented professionals that can stand strong on their own but work better as a networked team. We enable business agility at the intersection of people, process, and technology. We provide solutions and expert services to assist businesses to become more nimble, transformative, and disruptive in their respective industries. We define vision, strategy, and value creation models for shaping strategic product designs, managing, and transforming enterprise delivery. Just as strongly as we care about our clients, we feel that it is important to give back to the community and non-profits that we are passionate about. Every month, Allata donates 2% of our net income to a charitable cause our team believes in. We live by our mantra: Family comes first, clients are king, we take great care of our people.
