Senior Manager, Strategic Foresight

• Develop Foresight into an established consulting offering and actively help build out this business area
• Identify relevant future topics, trends, technologies, and societal developments, and translate them into strategic questions and courses of action
• Take responsibility for Foresight projects from defining the initial question through design and execution
• Develop future visions, scenarios, and strategic options together with clients
• Help clients identify uncertainties at an early stage and leverage them strategically
• Design and facilitate workshops, expert formats, and management sessions
• Make complex future topics tangible and relevant for decision-making
• Develop client relationships and identify new consulting opportunities
• Take responsibility for acquiring and developing new projects—from identifying clients and topics, through preparing proposals, to successful project placement
• Further develop methods, offerings, and thought-leadership activities
• Position Strategic Foresight as an integral part of the consulting portfolio
• Lead project teams and support the professional development of colleagues

• Several years of experience in management consulting, strategy, innovation, futures research, or a comparable environment
• Extensive experience with Strategic Foresight methods
• Ability to analyze future topics, trends, and disruptive developments rigorously and assess their strategic implications
• Experience leading consulting projects
• Ideally, experience managing and developing teams
• Strong understanding of client needs and the ability to develop concrete consulting offerings
• Experience in business development, sales acquisition, and/or expanding client relationships
• Confident presence and persuasive communication at management level
• Ability to communicate complex content concisely in presentations, workshops, and one-on-one interactions
• Entrepreneurial mindset, initiative, and willingness to take responsibility for building a new consulting business area
• Successfully completed degree in Innovation Management, Futures Research, (Business) Information Systems, Business Administration, or a comparable field
• Willingness to travel
• Fluent German and English, both written and spoken

• Permanent employment contract
• 30 days of annual leave
• Mobile working, including temporarily from other EU countries
• Sabbatical opportunities
• Flexible working hours
• Four-and-a-half-day workweek
• Excellent office and home-office equipment
• Ongoing training and professional development
• 360-degree feedback culture
• Mentoring program
• Regular workshops, after-work events, and company events