Chief Strategy & Growth Officer
hace 8 días
Cambridge
The CSGO sits on the CDP Board. The role has three main priorities: • Strategy – stewarding implementation across CDP and managing its on-going evolution, • Growth and Innovation - selecting, incubating and growing emerging markets, • Marketing – ensuring CDP leverages marketing and market insight to strengthen its position To help accomplish their goals CSGO will have two direct reports - Head of Emerging Markets, and Head of Marketing and Strategy Transformation. • Clear, differentiated company strategy understood across the organization., • Tangible revenue and growth impact from new market/business ventures., • Improved market positioning and credibility with target customers and key stakeholders., • Strong alignment between client needs, delivery capability, and commercial outcomes., • Define, own, and evolve CDP’s company-level strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term growth ambitions and market realities., • Identify and evaluate threats and opportunities posed by emerging technology and industry trends and instigate necessary changes to our strategic direction and/or product/service offer., • Challenge internal assumptions and provoke our market teams to innovate and evolve offerings., • Translate foresight into actionable strategic opportunities., • Ensure CDP remains ahead of shifts in client demand, technology adoption, and competitive dynamics., • Lead change initiatives, translating strategic intent into operational and organizational transformation., • Partner with the CEO and Board to define priorities, investment focus, and capability evolution., • Ensuring strategy is commercially grounded, executable, and measurable., • Identify and evaluate new sectors and markets aligned with CDP’s capabilities and growth ambitions., • Lead strategic assessment of sector entry, including market attractiveness, capability fit, and commercial potential., • Support investment and capability-building decisions linked to sector expansion., • Direct the strategy and trajectory of growth selected emerging market segments and steward their on-going development, • Build and manage senior-level strategic partnerships with external organizations (e.g. AWS, Microsoft, and other technology or ecosystem partners) – to extend our service offering, accelerate market access, credibility, and delivery capability and to open up new markets and clients., • Own the strategic direction, governance, and commercialization of CDP’s knowhow, and capabilities., • Own the marketing function, ensuring it supports strategic positioning, growth priorities, and builds market credibility., • Lead the adoption of marketing tools and methods to advance CDP’s positioning, • Champion and facilitate their use to drive growth across our core and emerging market sectors., • Ensure consistent, compelling articulation of CDP’s value proposition across all channels., • Represent CDP externally at conferences, industry events, client forums, and executive-level meetings., • Enable CDP teams to clearly articulate why CDP is uniquely positioned to solve client challenges, based on its knowledge, capabilities, and delivery excellence., • Deep commercial acumen; understands how ideas become revenue., • Credible thought leader with the ability to influence senior clients and industry audiences., • Able to operate across vision, strategy, and execution., • Comfortable leading ambiguity and driving organizational change., • Strong communicator who can translate complex capability into compelling client narratives., • Pragmatic, outcome-focused, and delivery-oriented., • Senior executive experience in strategy, growth, commercial leadership, or innovation roles., • Proven track record of monetizing strategy new capabilities, and/or IP., • Experience of operating at board or executive committee level., • Strong background in client-facing, market-led organizations (e.g. consulting, design, technology, innovation, engineering)., • Experience forming and managing strategic partnerships with global technology or ecosystem players. Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) is an end-to-end innovation partner, propelling global brands and ambitious start‑ups to success. We build breakthrough products and services – from insight to ideas, prototypes to production – bringing innovation to life. Our teams are multi-disciplinary, uniting scientific rigor, design ingenuity, and engineering excellence for consumer and healthcare clients. People‑centred, deeply collaborative, and – above all – expert, we’re uniquely positioned to shape the future for consumers, patients, and industry. Even our ownership model is innovative: We’re 100% owned by our employees, ensuring an open culture and a total commitment to our projects’ success. As part of our benefits package, we offer: • flexible working, • a discretionary bonus, • excellent learning and development opportunities, • a 12% non-contributory pension, • private healthcare, • electric vehicle lease salary sacrifice scheme, • share incentive plan, • 33 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays #J-18808-Ljbffr