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 you will be 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, acting as 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 demonstrable 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.

As a practitioner you have mastered a combination of analytical and strategic rigour, deep insight, creativity, and commercial acumen. You are 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.

• Founder mindset – 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 depth of experience from consulting, startups, scale‑ups, client side or ventures.
• Methodology rich while also method agnostic, able to draw down on a range of tools and methods to upskill the team and deliver great work.
• Strong commercial insight and commercial strategy lens, fluent in thinking through the commercial implications and opportunities that come from innovation and transformation.
• Curiosity around emerging technologies, able to think through their implications for clients and our methods.
• A blend of deductive and inductive skillsets, able to ground thinking in reality while inspiring new choices.
• A natural border‑crossing mindset, thriving on exchanging methods and approaches across disciplines or industries.

• Lead and expand strategic partnerships with clients, developing long‑term commercial relationships.
• Proactively identify and pursue new opportunities through client networks, RFPs, and original briefs.
• Collaborate on sector or capability leadership, working closely with other client leads to align strategy and offerings.

• Shape, develop, and launch new offers and solutions responsive to market shifts…