Senior Director - Financial Services - Americas Division - copy
About the Role
If you’re a Financial Services growth leader ready to set direction, build a team, and own outcomes, this role is for you. Simon-Kucher is the world’s leading growth specialist, helping clients unlock measurable revenue and profit by optimizing the full commercial engine—customer strategy, product, pricing, innovation, marketing, distribution, and sales.
Our Financial Services team partners with leaders across Banking, Fintech, Payments, Wealth & Asset Management, Capital Markets, and Insurance, as well as private equity investors, to solve their biggest commercial opportunities.
This is a practice leadership seat with meaningful latitude to build the market, develop talent, and shape the FS agenda in North America. You’ll join a high-performing, growing Americas FS team (20+ dedicated consultants, led by partners across the US, Canada, and LATAM) and be supported by a global bench of ~125 Financial Services specialists.
What Makes Us Special
- Become part of a unique entrepreneurial team where you can think independently, use your initiative, and take risks.
- Advance your career in a thriving company with a startup feel, with continuous professional development.
- Work in a values-driven culture that guides how we do business and communicate our distinctiveness.
- Invest in your future with 401(k) & RRSP benefits, including company matching.
- Prioritize health and well-being with a competitive suite of health benefits.
- Enjoy balance and flexible working, empowered to do your best work from home or the office.
Responsibilities
- Practice leadership & growth:
- Serve as a leader of the Financial Services practice in the Americas—helping set priorities, build capabilities, and expand our footprint.
- Source and shape opportunities by identifying client pain points and translating them into high-impact commercial growth engagements.
- Create momentum with existing clients through follow-on work and open doors to new relationships and markets.
- Client impact:
- Lead end-to-end strategy engagements that drive tangible, implementable outcomes.
- Bring deep FS content knowledge across monetization and commercial strategy, including:
- Growth strategy (organic/inorganic), go-to-market, and front-office transformation
- Pricing & packaging, value proposition design, product/portfolio strategy
- Segmentation and analytics-led commercial strategy
- Distribution strategy (omnichannel, digitization, channel orchestration)
- Sales effectiveness (process, incentives, coverage, productivity)
- Deliver executive-ready storytelling—clear, confident, and actionable.
- Team leadership:
- Build and grow high-performing teams: coach, develop, and inspire future leaders.
- Manage multiple engagements while balancing client success, team experience, and project profitability.
Requirements
- 10+ years in management consulting or professional services serving Financial Services clients.
- A strong track record in selling and delivering complex strategy work with senior executives.
- A meaningful network in North American Financial Services (senior relationships preferred).
- Demonstrated experience building and leading teams—and ideally contributing to practice growth, IP, and thought leadership.
- The ability to manage multiple engagements across workplans, budgets, timelines, and client stakeholders.
- An undergraduate degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Willingness to travel ~25% with in-office presence of 2-3 days per week in alignment with our hybrid working model.
Pay
The pay range for this position in New York is $240,000 - $275,000 per year plus potential annual performance-based bonus. Compensation may vary depending on relevant experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs.
Benefits
- Comprehensive package including paid time off and 13 paid holidays per year.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Basic life insurance.
- 401(k) with company matching for eligible employees.