Senior Strategy and Business Development Consultant

Where you will work: This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The contributions you will make:

This position serves as a senior individual contributor within Compeer's Strategy and Innovation team. You will lead high-stakes strategic initiatives and workstreams that span enterprise strategy, business development, and innovation. Partners directly with senior leaders to define market opportunities, evaluate new business models, and develop actionable strategies to accelerate growth. Plays a central role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing business development opportunities; including new ventures, strategic partnerships, and potential investments or acquisitions. Contributes to the design and assessment of innovation initiatives that strengthen Compeer's position as a leader in rural finance and agricultural services.

A typical day:

Strategy Project Leadership

• Leads multi-workstream projects or owns complex strategic challenges (e.g., customer strategy, transformation roadmap, pricing innovation, partnership modeling).
• Defines problem structure, analytical framework, workplan, and cross-functional engagement model.
• Delivers client-ready materials and briefings that influence enterprise decisions and actions.

Business Development, Innovation and Partnership Evaluation

• Identifies and assesses new growth opportunities, including new product offerings, market adjacencies, and emerging customer segments.
• Supports due diligence and opportunity evaluation for strategic partnerships, venture investments, or M&A opportunities.
• Develops business cases, partner analyses, and commercial risk assessments to guide leadership decision-making.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams (Innovation, Finance, Legal, Product) to vet, pilot, and scale select innovation and partnership initiatives.

Strategic Planning and Enterprise Alignment

• Facilitates planning processes for business units or functional areas, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and execution plans.
• Helps connect planning activities to resource allocation, financial forecasting, and key performance indicators.
• Contributes to internal frameworks and tools that support strategic clarity and prioritization.

Engagement and Development

• Influences senior-level stakeholders through compelling storytelling, logic, and data-backed recommendations.
• Mentors junior team members; provide feedback on structuring, problem-solving, and deliverables.
• Serves as a trusted peer to senior leaders and support overall team effectiveness and impact.

The skills and experience we prefer you have:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, human centered or product design or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job. MBA or equivalent experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced-level experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, innovation, business development, or corporate development, required.
• Proven ability to lead multi-faceted strategy projects and assess commercial opportunities.
• Advanced experience from top consulting firms, corporate strategy groups, or innovation-focused business roles.
• Comfortable operating at the intersection of strategy, execution, and external market engagement.
• Advanced ability to design approaches to ambiguous problems and lead through structured frameworks.
• Advanced ability to synthesizes complex findings into persuasive, high-quality documents and presentations tailored to senior audiences.
• Advanced understanding of how to evaluate and quantify new market opportunities, product ideas, partnerships, and investments.
• Experience conducting due diligence, analyzing partner fit, or building business cases.
• Advanced financial and market analysis capabilities, including Excel modeling, market sizing, and customer segmentation.
• Brings a general management mindset and is comfortable weighing tradeoffs across customer, financial, operational, and strategic factors.
• Demonstrated ability to assess or incubate new business ideas. Understands how to balance desirability, feasibility, and viability of emerging concepts.

How we will take care of you:

Our job titles may span more than one career level (associate, senior, principal, etc.). The actual title and base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for variable compensation and other benefits.