Senior Banking Strategy Consultant Lead
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Overview
Job Description
Location: On site at location listed in job posting.
Overview
The Senior Banking Strategy Consultant Lead supports-and when appropriate, leads-high-impact initiatives across the Regional Bank portfolio. The focus is on structuring work, aligning stakeholders, communicating crisply with executives, and driving execution discipline.
Key responsibilities
- Strategy development and execution: Translate strategic priorities into clear roadmaps with scope, milestones, and success metrics; manage interdependencies and surface risks with options.
- Portfolio and program leadership: Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives that enable growth, efficiency, and client experience improvements; ensure strong governance and change management.
- Executive communications and governance: Produce board- and executive-ready materials (monthly updates, decision memos, performance narratives) that distill complex inputs into clear recommendations.
- Market and competitive intelligence: Curate and interpret market, competitor, and internal insights to inform priorities for the Regional Bank and specific lines of business.
- Operating model and process improvement: Partner with associates and functional leaders to identify bottlenecks, redesign processes, and embed continuous improvement practices that accelerate business flow.
- Data-informed decision enablement: Leverage available analyses to extract practical insights that shape actions, forecasts, and prioritization-focusing on relevance and impact over exhaustive analytics.
- Stakeholder leadership: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and key partners (Product, LOBs, CIO/Technology, Finance, Risk); anticipate needs, align on outcomes, and drive accountability.
- Strategic plan documentation and cadence: Maintain and refresh the strategic plan, objectives, and metrics; ensure alignment with corporate processes, timelines, and reporting standards.
What success looks like
- Tangible business outcomes delivered on time and within scope.
- Concise recommendations that enable rapid, high-quality executive decisions.
- Strong adoption of new capabilities and processes by associates and our clients.
- Proactive risk, dependency, and change-impact management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- A minimum of 5-8 years of financial analytic experience with a management consulting firm or in a financial services' strategic environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proven ability to effectively gather and interpret large data sets
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, comfortable supporting and delivering executive level presentations
- Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills with the ability to effectively multi-task and manage competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with attention to detail
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite; advanced skills with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
About Us
First Horizon Corporation is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.
Benefit Highlights
- Medical with wellness incentives, dental, and vision
- HSA with company match
- Maternity and parental leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mentor program
- 401(k) with 6% match
- More -- FirstHorizon.com/First-Horizon-National-Corporation/Careers/Our-Benefits
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