Join Stratford as a Senior Consultant for Digital

Full time | Permanent | Location: Virtual (willing to travel to Ottawa)

Salary Range $120,000 - $150,000

About Stratford

At Stratford, we believe better is possible, and it's our mission to help clients get there with better strategies, better processes, better technology, better intellectual property protection and better leadership. Our teams have years of practical business experience and deliver customized solutions that help clients realize value, achieve results and build enduring capabilities. Capabilities that leave our clients in better positions to thrive and contribute to the prosperity and vibrancy of their organizations, their teams and their communities.

At Stratford Group we support and celebrate diversity and inclusion. We believe an engaging and rewarding place to work is a direct outcome of having talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. Our aim is to help everyone reach their full potential and achieve their personal and professional goals.

This role will report into the Management Consulting business unit and will be based primarily from home with occasional requirements to be in office.

About You

You are an experienced senior consultant ideally with a mix of consulting and corporate experience. In addition to your domain of expertise you can also demonstrate breadth of experience and are able to influence at the C-suite level. You're a high-potential person and effective communicator who wants more than a traditional corporate career path. You want a challenging career experience that draws upon all your background, knowledge, and desire to learn and deliver.

You have a minimum of 15 years of experience ideally with a focus on the healthcare or technology sectors in Canada. You also are familiar with and not afraid of business development. Ideally you have experience with cultivating and winning new business. You are a problems solver and can devise the steps required to get to an intended outcome.

Do you crave the opportunity to work with other experienced practitioners and grow your capabilities and deepen your skills? If you are ready for a change then Stratford Group is the place to accelerate your career! You will have the opportunity to continuously strengthen and expand your consulting expertise both through direct experience, coaching and planned development.

What You Will Do and The Value You Will Add

Leveraging your education background and experience, you will engage with prospects and clients to explore opportunities where Stratford can deliver value to clients and work individually and with a team to propose and develop new client relations and build a pipeline of opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Working with an executive sponsor, you will participate in client facing projects, plan, track deliverables to completion and generate formal progress reports. This will primarily be related to IT assessments, digital modernization, cybersecurity or strategy development.
• Lead and manage medium to large projects with clients working both individually and in a team environment. Deliver high quality outputs and outcomes to clients ranging from assessments, research, reports and digital implementations.
• Initiate and maintain positive relationships with the client/potential client(s) to monitor current and future opportunities, tracking opportunities and market trends.
• Network within the target market and communicate Stratford Group capabilities and services to ensure the development of robust pipeline of opportunities.
• Lead in the project proposal pursuit by understanding client needs and promoting Stratford Group distinguishing organization capacity advantages and resources in the development of proposals and presentations
• Plan and run client facing workshops, interviews, gather data, research, analyze and assess inputs.
• Maintain positive relationships with clients and ensure Stratford meets their needs with high quality deliverables

Required Experience

• Education required is a minimum of a bachelor's degree in a technical or business domain (Business, Engineering, Information Technology), an advanced degree, or MBA or equivalent is an asset
• Minimum of 15 years at leadership levels and experience ideally with a combination of consulting and corporate delivery experience.
• Project management knowledge and experience
• Experience in Digital and IT and operations including managing large digital projects.
• Experience in strategy development and business development is an asset
• Experience in cybersecurity is an asset
• Project estimation, costing and proposal development are assets
• Experience producing formal reports and presentations to senior audiences.

Skills And Attributes for Success

• Action-oriented, self-starter
• Highly collaborative
• Strong analytical skills
• Follow through and ability to produce high quality, polished output
• Exhibits business acumen
• Ability to build trusting relationships
• Customer focused
• Ability to manage multiple objectives
• Responsible and deadline oriented
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Very comfortable being part of a team; willing to play a variety of roles is needed and especially have fun!

The Pay-off

As a Stratford consultant you'll use every ounce of your resourcefulness and talent to build your capabilities as a consultant to bring value to clients. You'll revel in the flexibility of a virtual consulting environment. You'll find thrill in the hunt for new opportunities. You'll enjoy the experience of finding solutions for a variety of clients and client challenges. You'll be learning and growing while gaining the satisfaction of having a significant impact on your client’s success. All this as well as enjoying the camaraderie and stimulation of working with some of the best consultants in the business.