Associate Director, Business Strategy

Summary

Join Method, a global design and engineering consultancy, as an Associate Director of Business Strategy in Mexico City. Lead a team through complex projects, from conception to delivery, focusing on business strategy and client success. You will translate business requirements into deliverables, guide clients to optimal outcomes, and create data-driven strategies. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, along with 7+ years of relevant experience and 1+ year of team management experience. Method offers competitive perks, including continuing education, paid time off, work-from-home policies, medical and dental coverage, life insurance, health and wellness programs, and parental leave. The ideal candidate is smart, kind, brave, and curious, with a passion for collaboration and a desire to make a positive impact.

Requirements

• Fluent in English with excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills. Ability to successfully articulate ideas and intent to your team and your client
• Demonstrated success in effecting change and / or launching products or ventures in a startup or corporate environment, involving working across multiple stakeholder groups and joining dots to bring better alignment and understanding
• Experience with data, business modeling, forecasting
• Has performed work in global context and/or has comparable experience working in a global firm/industry (i.e. worked for Global Clients specifically in US, Japan, and/or Europe)
• 7+ years of experience in consulting, agency, innovation, startup, project management, or a similar discipline
• Effective communicator both in client presentations and meetings, able to frame complicated problems in ways that are easily understood. Effective time management skills to balance project schedules with fast-paced deadlines
• You contribute to statements of work, new business pursuits and project definitions, and are able to spot opportunities for account growth on projects and communicate possibilities to Director/New Business
• Great interpersonal skills and the ability to galvanize and inspire others. Not afraid to ask for help when needed
• Able to operate in a fast moving environment and comfortable with uncertainty
• 1+ year team management experience - you have a high level of personal awareness and appreciation of the skills of others and are an active participant in design discussions and across the Method studios

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary team through complex projects, planning, conducting and interpreting business strategy activities to inform the direction of the product. Methods will include any/all of the business strategy tools, adapted for the client and context
• Translate brand, service, operational and financial business requirements into holistic deliverables in a highly collaborative environment, often joining unusual dots and leveraging your curiosity to tell a great story
• Frame, challenge and translate client briefs into a project proposal, scoping projects to deliver on time and to a high standard. Demonstrate thought leadership, educate and share knowledge with others
• Guide the client to the best outcome for their business, end users, and Method, thinking holistically about customer needs, business requirements, operational & organizational culture and technical possibilities
• Put together business cases, financial models and pricing analysis to drive the optimal balance for client’s decisions and build data-driven strategies
• Plan and execute data gathering, hypothesis building, and assumption mapping activities to inform ROI analysis; translate analysis into strategic prioritization and recommended actions
• Create business models, investment roadmaps, and go-to-market plans
• Lead qualitative and quantitative research from start to finish, including learning plans, approach and methods, interviews, tools, analysis and report creation
• Get involved in New Business activities to help define ways to win projects
• Pull together the right skills on a project team and pivot where necessary, and can brief the team effectively
• Impact Method through common missions that better serve our projects, our people and the world at large
• Polished presentation and storytelling abilities
• Foster a culture of curiosity on the interplay between design, product and technology that manifests in how projects are framed and executed

Benefits

• Continuing education opportunities
• Paid time off and work-from-home policies
• Complementary private medical and dental coverage
• Fondo de ahorro
• Life insurance
• Health and wellness programs
• Parental leave
• Additional benefits including: IMSS, Aguinaldo, food vouchers