Client Strategist

Job description

We are mission-driven to advance wellbeing across the Quality of Life ecosystem through impactful leadership. Come join us! THE ORGANIZATION WittKieffer partners exclusively with organizations across healthcare, education, and life sciences to build and enable impactful leadership. For more than 57 years, the firm has provided executive search, interim leadership, and leadership advisory solutions grounded in deep market insight and tailored to each client’s context. This insight‑driven approach underpins WittKieffer’s purpose: Improving Quality of Life through Impactful Leadership. The Commercial Strategy & Insights (CSI) team is a firm‑wide capability that enables consultants and colleagues by actively driving data‑grounded insight and commercial rigor into business development, client solutions, and sales enablement. Organized around key markets and interconnected levers, including insight generation, client strategy, and pursuit support, CSI works in close partnership with internal teams to facilitate focused, market‑credible execution across growth priorities. THE ROLE The Client Strategist is a core role within the CSI team, contributing to client strategy and business development through the application of market, client, and competitive intelligence. This position ensures that commercial efforts are well-informed, thoughtfully prioritized, and consistently executed across active pursuits and priority initiatives. Working closely with consultants as an embedded partner, the Client Strategist develops, synthesizes, and coordinates insights, analyses, and commercial materials to enable timely, high-quality business development. The role operates in proximity to client situations and requires strong judgment, effective prioritization, and execution rigor within a fast-paced professional services environment. Work will be conducted in a remote environment. This position offers a base salary of $80,000 to $95,000, plus a target bonus of 10% of base salary. Salary within our ranges is determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as required by the role, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. WittKieffer offers a full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life and disability insurances, and generous paid time off. RESPONSIBILITIES Commercial Enablement and Business Development: Support go-to-market strategy and business development by providing market, client, and competitive intelligence that informs growth opportunities across relevant market segments. Develop and apply insights into market opportunities, client needs, and segment priorities to address real-time and tactical business development requirements. Analyze potential and existing clients to identify trends, opportunities, and gaps in support of business development and solution positioning. Support prioritized opportunities by developing customized messaging, client-credible materials, and relevant thought leadership for proposals, pitches, and client conversations. Market Intelligence and Research: Curate and recommend relevant WittKieffer publications for relevant segments and client situations across the firm’s solutions. Contribute to quantitative and qualitative research initiatives centered on leadership, talent, and market dynamics. Prepare data analyses and build data assets; synthesize compelling, cutting-edge insights that enhance market-facing materials and strengthen business development activities and outcomes. Conduct in ‑ depth research using qualified internal and external sources, synthesizing findings into clear, actionable insights. CANDIDATE PROFILE Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred. 2-3 years of experience in consulting or a commercially oriented, professional services environment. Exposure to business development, pursuit support, or client ‑ proximate work within such environments. Critical Competencies: Commercial Enablement : Skilled in activating and facilitating market, client, and competitive insight to advance business development, client strategy, and growth priorities. Judgment, Prioritization, and Execution Rigor : Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel demands within a fast‑paced, time‑sensitive professional services environment, including work in connection with senior decision‑makers and critical business issues. Project Management Experience : Proven experience coordinating complex, interrelated initiatives across consultants and internal partners to deliver coherent and durable business outcomes. Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills : Able to quickly and deeply analyze client situations, market signals, and incomplete information to identify opportunities, gaps, and implications for action. Market and Client Acumen : Working knowledge of market dynamics in healthcare and life sciences that enables credible commercial positioning and effective client preparation. Data and CRM Fluency : Experience using data to inform insight development and decision‑making; familiarity with CRM systems to support client intelligence and business development activities is a plus. AI‑Enabled Research and Analysis : Familiarity with using AI‑enabled tools to support research, analysis, and insight development in a commercial context. Clear and Pragmatic Communication : Ability to communicate succinctly and effectively, translating complex analyses into practical, decision‑ready insights that support alignment and execution. Witt/Kieffer Inc. ("WittKieffer") provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. WittKieffer will recruit, employ, train, promote and compensate our employees without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, citizenship, gender, pregnancy, military status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, disability or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. WittKieffer will endeavor to make reasonable accommodation, as required by law, for qualified individuals with known disabilities or religious practices unless doing so would result in an undue hardship on the operation of our business.