What does career progression in corporate strategy look like? Will it eventually lead one to build a CEO skill set/be picked by smaller companies for a CEO position? If not, what is this route?

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Corp strat usually isn’t a long term career. Most people rotate trough as part of their grooming for general management roles.

Some people specialize in M&A, integration, or transformation, but they often bring those skills in from previous experience.

Corp strat can be a good entry point for a consultant, but you’ll want to make sure moving to a role in general management, commercial, or operations is possible.

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Unless you get to work like someone who runs a business unit, strat is a dead end. Mixing it with Corp rev or strategic pmo can get more say into how the company operates, but not ceo

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D1 is right. A two year stop in corp strat is a good way to transition from consulting and be fast tracked into desirable positions in a business unit

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Is it a necessary step from consulting? Or could I be in operational consulting and move straight into a role in general management? My understanding is that you really have to be in strategy consulting to land these corp strat roles, but if the ultimate goal is to move to a general management role, what’s the point of a) strat consulting and b) corp strat? Is the experience that useful later on so much so that it’s worth the hours one puts in doing strategy consulting?

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Generally exit opps, pay, exposure to CEO level issues are why people go into it. Also since MBB does strategy the field is considered sexy.

If you focus on ops consulting there is no guarantee that you are groomed for ceo roles. However if you leave ops consulting and get groomed by a director of BU or something then your chances of making it big are high

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