Lead Strategy Consultant (Manager level), Strategy & Business Design

Job Description

Strategy & Digital Business Design is the Copenhagen strategy team inside Devoteam, a company of more than 11,000 tech professionals, around 350 of them here in Denmark.

Most companies by now have more AI ideas, pilots and PoCs than they know what to do with. We help them focus on the few problem spaces that matter, and we stay until the solutions create real value in the business.

We’re hiring one or more Lead Strategy Consultants. It’s a senior role. You run your own workstreams, you lead other consultants on them, and you’re comfortable in a room with the client’s leadership team without someone more senior next to you.

The work:

Most of our engagements start with a question like “where should we place our AI bets, and what are they worth?” From there, you’ll do AI strategy and readiness work with business leaders, shape the first use cases and pilot teams, and make sure the solutions make it past the PoC stage and into the business. Sometimes you’ll even build them yourself. We judge our work by the value it creates for the client. If a solution isn’t moving the numbers that matter, we challenge it and keep adjusting until it does, or we stop it. We expect everyone to go deep enough on the technology to test what models can and can’t do and hold their own with architects and engineers.

We work across industries, but we’re investing most in life sciences (pharma in particular) and manufacturing, where we are scaling our industry depth and experience.

What we’re looking for:

• Around 5 to 6 years in consulting, at a firm or in-house. Long enough to have structured problem solving in your bones, and to know when to ignore the frameworks or develop something new.

• You’ve run workstreams from scoping to delivery, with a team and a client, and you know how to manage upwards on both sides.

• You think in business value. You can put a number on what a solution is worth, and you keep pushing until it delivers.

• You’re the one who asks the awkward question in the steering committee, and you can back it up.

• You’re obsessively curious. You want to understand how things work, and you’ve usually gone down the rabbit hole before anyone asked you to.

• You use AI to work faster, but most importantly you still do the thinking yourself.

• Experience from life sciences or manufacturing is a clear plus.

• Fluent English. Danish is a bonus.

If you come from the build side:

We also want to hear from people who took a different route. If you’re an engineer or data scientist who ended up spending most of your time with the business, and you’ve built agents, data products or prototypes side by side with the people using them, please apply as well! 

Why us?

• We’re on top of the newest AI tools, and they’re part of how we work and what we deliver. When something better comes out on a Tuesday, we're using it by Thursday.

• Your ideas will be tested hard and either built or put down (nicely, of course).

• You’ll work with some of the largest companies in the Nordics on problems where AI changes the numbers.

• You’ll help shape our offerings and the methods behind them, especially in life sciences and manufacturing.

• You’re in charge of how you work. Work from home when it suits you. What we care about is that you grow and that our clients get results.

• We are a small team of ambitious people who like to spend time together both on and off work. We have various social events, we regularly have breakfast or dinner together and enjoy sharing knowledge on new AI tools, travel tips or anything else that we are passionate about.

How to apply:

Send your CV and half a page, or a two-minute video, answering two questions:

1. Pick a company you know well. Where will AI change its economics most in the next three years, and what would you do first?

2. What’s something technical you taught yourself, and why?

If you’re from the build side, send a link to something you’ve made and a few lines on what it taught you.

The interviews include a case. You’ll work through a client problem like the ones we see, and show us how you’d get from the question to something that works.

Skip the cover letter. Your answers tell us more.