- Overview: Straive is looking for a seasoned Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Subject Matter Expert with 15+ years of experience to help guide and scale its CPG practice.

- This senior role is designed for an individual with broad and deep knowledge across the CPG value chain-especially in marketing, pricing, and commercial strategy-who can act as a thought partner, capability builder, and strategic leader across client engagements.

- This role is ideal for someone who enjoys blending strategic thinking with hands-on collaboration, and who can engage credibly with senior client stakeholders while mentoring internal teams and shaping Straive's go-to-market CPG capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:.

- Serve as the CPG industry expert across client engagements, providing strategic guidance, functional expertise, and contextual insights across domains such as pricing, marketing, trade, and innovation.

- Act as a thought partner to clients and internal teams, bringing a strong industry lens to challenges and opportunities in revenue growth, portfolio optimization, and customer engagement.

- Collaborate with client engagement leads to shape problem statements, solution approaches, and execution strategies.

- Support multiple client engagements by providing subject matter input, reviewing deliverables, and ensuring industry relevance and strategic impact.

- Help build and refine Straive's CPG capability, including developing accelerators, reusable frameworks, and internal training programs.

- Contribute to sales enablement by co-creating POVs, pitches, proposals, and POCs that are grounded in real-world CPG strategy and operations.

- Represent Straive in client conversations, industry forums, or executive briefings as a respected voice on CPG topics.

- Partner with business development and client delivery teams to identify areas of growth and value creation, without holding direct revenue targets.

- Mentor and coach internal teams, helping develop a pipeline of future CPG talent within the organization.

Qualifications:.

- 15+ years of professional experience, with significant tenure in the CPG industry or in consulting roles focused on CPG clients.

- Deep functional knowledge across the CPG value chain, particularly in:o Marketing strategyo Pricing and revenue growth managemento Trade promotion and assortment planningo Consumer and market insights Proven experience working closely with senior stakeholders across strategy, commercial, and analytics teams.

- Strong strategic thinking, with a track record of helping solve complex, cross-functional challenges in CPG.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize and present complex concepts clearly and persuasively.

- Experience contributing to capability building, knowledge assets, and internal best practices within a consulting or service-based organization.

- Comfort working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment with both internal and external stakeholders.

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Marketing, or related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Why Join Straive?.

- Drive high-impact analytics transformations for leading global CPG brands.

- Be part of a fast-growing, innovation-led analytics consulting practice.

- Work alongside top-tier talent across AI, data science, and business domains.

- Thrive in a flexible, entrepreneurial, and high-ownership work environment.