Corporate Strategy & Transformation

• Define, own, and evolve CDP’s company-level strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term growth ambitions and market realities.
• Identify and evaluate threats and opportunities posed by emerging technology and industry trends and instigate necessary changes to our strategic direction and/or product/service offer.
  • Challenge internal assumptions and provoke our market teams to innovate and evolve offerings.
  • Translate foresight into actionable strategic opportunities.
  • Ensure CDP remains ahead of shifts in client demand, technology adoption, and competitive dynamics.
• Lead change initiatives, translating strategic intent into operational and organizational transformation.
• Partner with the CEO and Board to define priorities, investment focus, and capability evolution.
• Ensuring strategy is commercially grounded, executable, and measurable.

Sector Expansion & Opportunity Identification

• Identify and evaluate new sectors and markets aligned with CDP’s capabilities and growth ambitions.
• Lead strategic assessment of sector entry, including market attractiveness, capability fit, and commercial potential.
• Support investment and capability-building decisions linked to sector expansion.
• Direct the strategy and trajectory of growth selected emerging market segments and steward their on-going development
• Build and manage senior-level strategic partnerships with external organizations (e.g. AWS, Microsoft, and other technology or ecosystem partners) – to extend our service offering, accelerate market access, credibility, and delivery capability and to open up new markets and clients.
• Own the strategic direction, governance, and commercialization of CDP’s knowhow, and capabilities.

• Own the marketing function, ensuring it supports strategic positioning, growth priorities, and builds market credibility.
  • Lead the adoption of marketing tools and methods to advance CDP’s positioning
  • Champion and facilitate their use to drive growth across our core and emerging market sectors.
• Ensure consistent, compelling articulation of CDP’s value proposition across all channels.
• Represent CDP externally at conferences, industry events, client forums, and executive-level meetings.
• Enable CDP teams to clearly articulate why CDP is uniquely positioned to solve client challenges, based on its knowledge, capabilities, and delivery excellence.

• Deep commercial acumen; understands how ideas become revenue.
• Credible thought leader with the ability to influence senior clients and industry audiences.
• Able to operate across vision, strategy, and execution.
• Comfortable leading ambiguity and driving organizational change.
• Strong communicator who can translate complex capability into compelling client narratives.
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused, and delivery-oriented.

• Senior executive experience in strategy, growth, commercial leadership, or innovation roles.
• Proven track record of monetizing strategy new capabilities, and/or IP.
• Experience of operating at board or executive committee level.
• Strong background in client-facing, market-led organizations (e.g. consulting, design, technology, innovation, engineering).
• Experience forming and managing strategic partnerships with global technology or ecosystem players.