Strategy consultant
Overview
- £45k – £60k DOE
- Full Time
- Home and or the office in Bristol
- Immediate
Key Benefits
- Additional Christmas Paid Holiday
- Personal Development Plan and Support
- R&D time to work on new self-generated projects
- Conference budgets at opportunities to speak at and attend events.
- Personalised avatar and mug (cooler than it sounds)
- Flexible and relaxed working
In Brief
Mid-Level | Remote-First | B2B eCommerce
A consulting role focused on client delivery and contributing to Rixxo’s evolving processes. You’ll work with autonomy, bring lived ecommerce experience to client relationships, and help shape what great strategic consulting looks like.
As a Strategy Consultant at Rixxo you’ll lead strategic relationships with B2B ecommerce clients — running workshops, facilitating planning sessions, and guiding clients from ambition to measurable outcome. You’ll work primarily remotely with client-site time as needed, operating with real autonomy and access to senior support when you need it.
You’ll use our Foundations™ and SPIN APE™ frameworks to structure your work and contribute to their evolution over time.
Strategy consultant role in detail
Core Responsibilities
Lead Platform Selection
- Guide clients through platform selection using our SPIN APE™ framework
- Start with needs before features — focus on business outcomes, not technology
- Conduct thorough discovery across Situation, Process, Impact, and Needs
- Structure vendor engagement: align vendors with business context, manage proposals, and evaluate responses objectively
- Ensure platform decisions serve business goals, people, and process
- Collaborate with solution architects during later evaluation stages
Lead Clients to Success
- Run workshops and lead client onboarding using our Foundations™ framework
- Facilitate goal discovery and translate client ambitions into SMART objectives
- Define milestones as moments in time, not features or functions
- Break down goals into achievable milestones with clear dependencies
- Stay engaged through execution, maintaining strategic alignment
- Work autonomously across service tiers, accessing senior support when needed
Deliver Strategic Value
- Lead strategy sessions, quarterly reviews, and annual planning
- Use data to guide recommendations and identify growth opportunities
- Monitor performance and adjust plans to optimise client outcomes
- Set measurement frameworks that track meaningful business results
Grow Client Accounts
- Identify expansion opportunities within existing client relationships
- Contribute to proposals and later-stage sales conversations
- Generate new business through referrals, events, and networking
- Represent Rixxo at industry events and build partner relationships
Contribute to Rixxo
- Evolve and improve our service offering and processes
- Document what works and codify repeatable approaches
- Create content for case studies and marketing initiatives
- Collaborate across the team to solve client challenges
Additional Focus Areas
- Lead Foundations™ for assigned clients
- Develop consulting skills through client work and internal contribution
- Manage ongoing strategic relationships across service tiers
- Learn Rixxo’s frameworks and evolve them through practice
- Deliver workshops, reviews, and planning sessions
- Build capability in facilitation, goal-setting, and strategic thinking
- Work autonomously whilst accessing senior support when needed
- Grow towards senior consulting and leadership responsibilities
About You
Essential Experience
- Lived experience working inside a B2B ecommerce business (any point in career, client-side)
- Experience in digital transformation and technology selection
- Understanding of how technology serves people and processes
- Strong analytical capability and comfort with data-driven decision making
- Proven ability to facilitate workshops and strategic planning sessions
- Experience translating complex goals into actionable plans
- Ability to work autonomously in remote and client-site environments
- Commercial judgement and ROI thinking
Valued
- Understanding of platform capabilities and system integration
- Experience with modern reporting and data visualisation tools
- Familiarity with project management and documentation platforms
- Knowledge of B2B ecommerce platforms and ecosystem
Role-Specific Experience
- Experience delivering strategic projects in B2B ecommerce
- Demonstrated ability to manage client relationships independently
- Track record of delivering business outcomes through strategic work
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders
How We Work With Clients
We operate three service tiers based on engagement intensity and velocity:
- Advisory Access Light-touch advisory for clients needing strategic guidance without deep involvement. Lower intensity, flexible cadence.
- Collaborative Partner Co-pilot partnership working alongside client teams. Regular engagement with moderate intensity.
- Embedded Leadership Fractional leadership operating with autonomy and strategic ownership. High intensity, high velocity.
Strategy Consultants work across all tiers. Target capacity is 80% client work with 20% for Rixxo contribution.
Measures of success
Client Success
Client Retention & Growth
Strong client retention across the engagement lifecycle
Year-on-year revenue growth from managed accounts
Long-term partnerships built on trust and results
Client Milestone Achievement
Delivery of client business outcomes
Progress towards goals through milestone completion
Measurable improvements to client revenue, productivity, or efficiency
Business & Rixxo Contribution
Business Development
New business generated through referrals and networking
Growth opportunities identified and closed in existing accounts
Contribution to proposals and sales conversations
Rixxo Development
Evolution of service offering and processes
Documentation and codification of proven approaches
Contribution to marketing and thought leadership
Other Benefits as a Strategy consultant
Apart from being part of a passionate and supportive team, working with some of the best brands, you’ll also receive some, all or more than the following benefits.
- Additional Christmas Paid Holiday
- Personal Development Plan and Support
- R&D time to work on new self-generated projects
- Monthly Social Activities
- Conference budgets at opportunities to speak at and attend events.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Personalised avatar and mug (cooler than it sounds)
- Team pension
- Flexible working
Apply for this role
If this sounds like an opportunity for you or you have any questions, we would love to hear from you. Please send us your CV using the contact form below.
And if you have a portfolio, Github, or website to show us, we would be keen to take a look, as it would give us a better idea of what you’re all about.