Hessons Consulting Group is a premier consulting firm dedicated to delivering top-tier management, consulting, and professional services to businesses across diverse industries. Our commitment to excellence and innovation drives us to provide solutions that enhance operational efficiency, drive growth, and foster sustainability.

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Chief Strategy Consultant

Job Type

Full Time

Qualification

MBA/MSc/MA

Experience

15 years

Location

Nairobi

Job Field

Consultancy

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-level strategic diagnostics, including stakeholder discovery and executive alignment
• Facilitate Board and ExCo strategy working sessions, prioritisation discussions, and decision forums
• Translate strategic direction into execution-ready priorities, portfolios, and measurable performance outcomes
• Develop executive-grade outputs including strategy narratives, investment cases, transformation roadmaps, and decision papers
• Establish implementation governance, including cadence, accountability, and performance review discipline
• Provide senior advisory support during rollout, stabilisation, and early implementation to sustain momentum

Qualifications

• A strong academic foundation in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Public Policy, or a related discipline
• Minimum 15 years progressive experience in strategy consulting, enterprise transformation, corporate strategy, or senior advisory leadership
• MBA is strongly recommended; PhD or equivalent research-based qualification is highly desirable
• Demonstrated track record leading enterprise-level strategy engagements from diagnosis to implementation governance
• Proven ability to operate at Board, CEO, and Executive Committee level with high credibility and discretion
• Strong command of strategic analysis, operating models, governance frameworks, and performance management systems
• Exceptional executive writing capability (board papers, strategic narratives, decision memos, investment cases)
• High maturity in stakeholder management, influence, and facilitation across complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Strong commercial judgement, including experience shaping proposals and leading senior client engagements

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• Lead enterprise-level strategic diagnostics, including stakeholder discovery and executive alignment
• Facilitate Board and ExCo strategy working sessions, prioritisation discussions, and decision forums
• Translate strategic direction into execution-ready priorities, portfolios, and measurable performance outcomes
• Develop executive-grade outputs including strategy narratives, investment cases, transformation roadmaps, and decision papers
• Establish implementation governance, including cadence, accountability, and performance review discipline
• Provide senior advisory support during rollout, stabilisation, and early implementation to sustain momentum

• Strategic analysis
• Operating models
• Governance frameworks
• Performance management systems
• Executive writing
• Stakeholder management
• Influence
• Facilitation
• Commercial judgement
• Proposal shaping
• Client engagement leadership

• A strong academic foundation in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Public Policy, or a related discipline
• Minimum 15 years progressive experience in strategy consulting, enterprise transformation, corporate strategy, or senior advisory leadership
• MBA is strongly recommended; PhD or equivalent research-based qualification is highly desirable
• Demonstrated track record leading enterprise-level strategy engagements from diagnosis to implementation governance
• Proven ability to operate at Board, CEO, and Executive Committee level with high credibility and discretion