These roles can place you directly alongside boards, investors and executive teams as they make decisions around growth, investment, acquisitions, profitability, capital allocation and transformation.
Role opportunity profile
Strategy Director
Indicative UK base £105k–£160k
Strategy Directors shape enterprise or business-unit strategy, portfolio choices, transformation priorities and executive decisions. Strong profiles show the scale of decisions, strategic programmes led, board or C-suite influence, market or portfolio analysis and execution outcomes.
The work
What work at this level can involve.
You could be leading group planning, building the financial case behind major strategic moves, directing an acquisition, challenging an investment decision, improving cash and margin or helping leadership understand which opportunities are genuinely worth pursuing.
The value of these positions is access to consequential decisions. Strong finance and strategy leaders do not simply produce information. They influence which option gets chosen and help turn that choice into execution.
Career impact
What successful contribution can look like.
Success might mean materially improving forecasting, identifying a major commercial opportunity, completing an acquisition, strengthening financial control, improving profitability or changing the strategic direction of a business.
Relevant experience can span senior finance, FP&A, corporate development, M&A, commercial finance and enterprise strategy, supported by strong judgement, analytical depth and the ability to communicate clearly at senior level.
Scope and impact
The substance behind work at this level.
Scale, authority, complexity and measurable results show what the work can carry.
Scale of decisions
Strategic programmes
Board or C-suite influence
Market or portfolio analysis
Execution outcomes
Cross-functional leadership
Indicative UK base salaries range from around £100k to £180k, with bonus, LTIP and equity extending many senior corporate and PE-backed packages.
The career path can move towards Group Finance Director, CFO, Head of Corporate Development, Chief Strategy Officer and broader executive leadership.
Senior corporate and PE-backed packages may extend higher through bonus, LTIP or equity.
Market & geography
Where this work sits.
UK-wide and selected international appointments across senior finance, transactions and corporate strategy.
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