Growth Strategy Director - EMEA

Growth Strategy Director - EMEA About Yonder

Yonder is a strategic transformation company dedicated to helping organisations stay ahead of change. We combine innovation, data, insight, strategy and culture expertise to empower clients to make faster, smarter decisions about their futures. We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of strategy, insight, creativity, and execution, partnering with clients to unlock new possibilities and take agency to shape the world around them.

Growth Strategy is a core capability within Yonder, the ability to identify new sources of growth within and beyond our clients core business model, today and into tomorrow.

As a Growth Strategy Director will be as a senior commercial leader in our business, responsible for driving our offer and leaving a legacy for you, your client and our company. You’ll lead strategic relationships with senior clients, being a figurehead for our work at the most senior level, delivering measurable business impact.

You ‘create a following’, as a leader in our business, leading and enabling teams to deliver great work, and as a partner and trusted advisor for our clients, listening, inspiring and providing demonstratable impact.

You will play a key role in shaping an offer that will serve the growth and transformation needs of our clients over the next decade. You are shaping the first of the next, not the best of the last.

As a practitioner, you have mastered a combination of analytical and strategic rigour, deep insight, creativity, and commercial acumen. You are now using your leadership ability to help clients innovate and execute  will lead a team that will translate complex data and strategic insight into clear opportunities for growth and innovation, driving value and impact for our client partners and those they serve.

• You’re a founder, not a follower
  You want a stake in the future, you exist to shape what's next, always seeking better —whether through new insight, methods or perspectives —to uncover possibility and express ideas.
• You think beyond the obvious
  Able to connect diverse signals, ideas, and data sources into transformational insights that reframe the conventional view about what’s happening today and what that means for tomorrow.
• A compelling storyteller
  Skilled at distilling complexity into clear, powerful narratives that cut through the noise, inspire, and drive action.
• Confident yet adaptive
  Bring strong convictions and the ability to articulate a point of view with clarity, while remaining open to input, challenge, and evolution.
• Value obsessed
  You understand value creation, you never stop challenging new sources of strategic, commercial, and cultural value that can transform our clients business.
• A relentless source of energy and inspiration
  You bring presence, momentum, and inspiration that energise both clients and colleagues, helping to spark innovation and progress.

• An experienced growth and innovation practitioner with a depth of experience picked up from the fields of consulting, startup, scale up, client side or ventures.
• Methodology rich while also method agnostic, you’re able to draw down on a range of tools and methods where appropriate to upskill the team and deliver great work.
• A natural border crosser, you may have committed into one discipline or industry then shifted to another, thriving on the exchanging of methods and approaches.
• You bring a strong commercial insight and commercial strategy lens, you understand how businesses work and how value is created, you are fluent in thinking through the commercial implications and opportunities that come from innovation and transformation.
• You have a handle and ongoing curiosity around emerging technologies, not as an expert but as someone who can think through their implications for our clients and our methods.
• A blend of deductive and inductive skillsets, that you use to both ground thinking in reality while also inspiring new choices, you could easily be at home in a VC or ventures firm, as you could in innovation.

• Lead and expand…