Strategy Consultant at Elizabeth Maddeux Limited

Elizabeth Maddeux provides a range of human resources solutions designed to empower your workforce, enhance technical proficiency, refine soft skills, and accelerateorganizational growth for better impacts by enhancing organizational dynamics through a well-rounded and robust human resource intervention.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Strategy Consultant

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Reporting To: Principal Consultant

Job Summary

• The Strategy Consultant is a high-level advisor responsible for diagnosing complex organizational challenges and designing transformative human capital strategies.
• This role sits at the apex of management consulting and organizational psychology, tasked with helping CEOs and Boards of Directors navigate large-scale shifts, such as digital transformation, global expansion, and post-merger integrations.
• As a strategist, you will move beyond administrative HR to act as a business partner who understands P&L drivers as deeply as cultural dynamics. You will utilize advanced consulting frameworks to conduct market benchmarking, internal gap analyses, and workforce forecasting, ultimately delivering a roadmap that future-proofs the client’s organization.
• Your success is measured by the tangible impact your strategies have on business performance, leadership bench strength, and long-term organizational agility.

Core Focus Areas:

• Business-HR Alignment: Synchronizing the “People Plan” with the company’s 3 - 5 year commercial growth strategy.
• Mergers, Acquisition & Restructuring: Guiding the cultural and structural integration of organizations during high-stakes corporate transactions.
• Future of Work: Advising clients on emerging trends like AI integration, hybrid work models, and the evolving gig economy.
• Executive Leadership Strategy: Identifying and developing the C-suite talent needed to steer the company through market volatility.

Responsibilities
Diagnostic & Organizational Health Strategy:

• Gap Analysis: Identifying the delta between the client’s current workforce capabilities and their 5-year business goals.
• Market Benchmarking: Researching competitors to determine if the client is lagging in innovation, talent attraction, or operational efficiency.
• Cultural Auditing: Using qualitative and quantitative data to map the “unspoken rules” of an organization and identifying if the culture supports or hinders the business strategy.

Structural & Growth Architecture:

• Target Operating Model Design: Defining how the business should be structured (People, Process, Technology) to execute its strategy.
• Merging, Acquisition & Post-Merger Integration: Leading the “People” side of a merger, deciding which leadership stays, how to blend two different cultures, and how to harmonize pay scales without losing top talent.
• Strategic Rightsizing: Advising on high-stakes restructuring, ensuring the company has the “right people in the right seats” to remain profitable.

High-Value Human Capital Initiatives:

• Succession Planning & Leadership Pipelines: Identifying and grooming the next generation of C-suite leaders to ensure business continuity.
• Future of Work Advisory: Navigating the impact of AI, automation, and remote work on the client’s specific industry.
• Total Rewards Strategy: Designing executive compensation and incentive plans that drive the specific behaviours needed for the company to win in its market.

Executive Advisory & Influence:

• Stakeholder Alignment: Managing conflicting interests between different board members or departments to ensure everyone is pulling in the same direction.
• Board-Level Reporting: Translating complex human capital data into high-level financial and strategic narratives for Board meetings.
• Change Visioning: Crafting the “story” of a transformation to ensure that the entire company understands and buys into a new strategic direction.

Core Competencies:

• Strategic Diagnostic & Gap Analysis
• Organizational Design & architecture
• Financial acumen
• Framework mastery
• Commercial Insight
• Stakeholder management
• Intellectual curiosity
• Executive presence & influence.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial Psychology, or related field.
• MBA or Master’s degree is preferred.
• 6-10 years in management consulting (Big 4 or boutique) or high-level corporate strategy.
• Experience across multiple sectors (e.g., Finance, Tech, Manufacturing).
• Professional Certification (CIPM, SHRM-CP, PHRi, or SPHRi).
• Advanced Excel (modeling), and data visualization tools.

What We Offer / Salary

• N350,000 - N600,000 monthly.
• Attractive salary.
• Career development opportunities.
• Health Insurance.
• Employer Contributory Pension.
• Supportive team culture and enabling environment.
• Opportunity to work within a global ecosystem

Application Closing Date
15th April, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and Cover Letter to: talent@elizabethmaddeux.com using “Strategy Consultant” as the subject of the email.