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Strategic Advisor
- Quebec, QC, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Experience
- Has a minimum of 10 years of experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, or executive advisory roles.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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Description
Build the Future with Us
Are you passionate about transforming trends, data, and complex business challenges into recommendations that shape organizational direction? As a Strategic Advisor, you will analyze the business environment, develop future scenarios, and formulate recommendations to support executive decision-making and contribute to the evolution of corporate strategy.
As a trusted advisor to the Strategy and Performance leadership team and the Executive Committee, you will bring an independent, structured, and constructive perspective to key strategic priorities. This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage your autonomy, curiosity, and creativity in an environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.
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What You'll Accomplish With Us
As a Strategic Advisor, you will be at the heart of our mission. Your key responsibilities will include:
What Could Accelerate Your Success In This Role
We're looking for someone who:
Why You'll Love Working With Us
Competitive Benefits
Apply today and take the lead in your career, where your talent truly matters!
___________________________________________________________________________
Still Hesitating?
At iA, we believe in potential and value diverse experiences. If this opportunity inspires you, we encourage you to apply. Your next career move could be with us, and we look forward to getting to know you!
Build the Future with Us
Are you passionate about transforming trends, data, and complex business challenges into recommendations that shape organizational direction? As a Strategic Advisor, you will analyze the business environment, develop future scenarios, and formulate recommendations to support executive decision-making and contribute to the evolution of corporate strategy.
As a trusted advisor to the Strategy and Performance leadership team and the Executive Committee, you will bring an independent, structured, and constructive perspective to key strategic priorities. This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage your autonomy, curiosity, and creativity in an environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.
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What You'll Accomplish With Us
As a Strategic Advisor, you will be at the heart of our mission. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Assessing the organization's competitive position through diagnostics, benchmarking analyses, and market research, then identifying gaps, challenges, and strategic options for executive leadership.
- Maintaining ongoing monitoring of markets, competitors, consumers, technologies, regulatory developments, and emerging trends to identify changes and dynamics that may impact the organization.
- Developing strategic hypotheses and future scenarios, assessing their implications, and presenting options that clearly outline trade-offs, benefits, risks, and success factors.
- Formulating and prioritizing recommendations related to growth, differentiation, innovation, and value creation, considering potential impact, risks, feasibility, and strategic alignment.
- Contributing to the development, refinement, and integration of strategic priorities into the planning cycle, while supporting stakeholder understanding and adoption.
- Producing decision-support analyses, monitoring strategic priorities and performance indicators, and communicating findings, risks, interdependencies, and recommended adjustments.
- Leading or supporting cross-functional strategic initiatives, planning activities, retreats, and strategic workshops by mobilizing stakeholders and preparing briefing notes, executive summaries, and presentation materials.
What Could Accelerate Your Success In This Role
We're looking for someone who:
- Holds a university degree in Business Administration, Strategy, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Has a minimum of 10 years of experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, or executive advisory roles.
- Demonstrates exceptional analytical, research, synthesis, modelling, and financial analysis skills, enabling the structuring of complex issues and the development of compelling recommendations.
- Stands out for their autonomy, initiative, creativity, rigor, sound judgment, strategic mindset, intellectual curiosity, and strong business acumen.
- Possesses excellent communication, facilitation, executive presentation, and influence skills, along with advanced proficiency in French.
- Thrives in a dynamic environment that requires agility and strong prioritization skills while managing multiple complex mandates simultaneously.
- Has knowledge of the property and casualty insurance industry, which is considered a strong asset.
- Advanced proficiency in French and intermediate proficiency in English are required, as the successful candidate will be expected to participate in numerous discussions and read and draft documents in English on a daily basis with teams across Canada.
Why You'll Love Working With Us
- A work environment where learning and professional development are combined with a collective pursuit of excellence;
- Artificial intelligence tools made available to everyone to enhance individual effectiveness and support organizational growth;
- A healthy, safe, equitable, and inclusive workplace where individuals can reach their full potential;
- The opportunity to work in a hybrid environment that offers flexibility and access to inspiring and innovative workspaces.
Competitive Benefits
- Flexible group insurance plans;
- Competitive pension plan;
- Employee share purchase plan;
- Vacation program and dedicated wellness and personal development days;
- Telemedicine services and an employee and family assistance program;
- Ergonomic equipment program;
- Performance bonus, discounts on iA products, and much more.
Apply today and take the lead in your career, where your talent truly matters!
___________________________________________________________________________
Still Hesitating?
At iA, we believe in potential and value diverse experiences. If this opportunity inspires you, we encourage you to apply. Your next career move could be with us, and we look forward to getting to know you!
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Responsibilities
Assess the organization’s competitive position and monitor market, competitor, consumer, technology, regulatory, and emerging trends to develop strategic hypotheses, scenarios, and recommendations. Support executive decision-making and strategic planning by analyzing performance, communicating risks and options, and leading or supporting cross-functional initiatives, workshops, and planning activities.
Requirements
A university degree in business administration, strategy, economics, engineering, or a related discipline and at least 10 years of experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, or executive advisory are required. Candidates should bring strong analytical, research, synthesis, modelling, financial analysis, communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, advanced French proficiency, and intermediate English proficiency; property and casualty insurance knowledge is an asset.
Skills
- Corporate Strategy
- Strategic Planning
- Market Research
- Competitive Analysis
- Benchmarking
- Scenario Planning
- Strategic Analysis
- Financial Analysis
- Business Acumen
- Executive Advisory
- Executive Presentation
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Initiative Leadership
- French Language Proficiency
Benefits
- Competitive Pension Plan
- Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Vacation Program
- Wellness Days
- Personal Development Days
- Telemedicine Services
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Ergonomic Equipment Program
- Performance Bonus
- Discounts on Company Products
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
- Consulting
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Corporate Strategy
- Strategic Planning
- Executive Advisory
- Competitive Positioning
- Market Research
- Benchmarking
- Environmental Scanning
- Competitor Analysis
- Consumer Trends
- Technology Trends
- Regulatory Developments
- Strategic Hypotheses
- Scenario Planning
- Financial Analysis
- Business Modelling
- Growth Strategy
- Differentiation
- Innovation
- Value Creation
- Performance Indicators
- Decision Support
- Cross-Functional Initiatives
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Executive Presentations
- Property and Casualty Insurance
- French
- English