Strategy & Corporate Development
About the Practice
Strategy & Corporate Development
Our Practice
The Charles Aris Strategy & Corporate Development recruiting practice stays connected with elite consultants from firms such as McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company and other top management consulting firms in addition to top-tier investment bankers. Our search team constantly refines a network of more than 64,000 current and former consultants and investment bankers, placing strategy and corporate development leaders in roles ranging from Analyst to Director to Chief Strategy Officer.
We partner with Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, asset managers and other professional services organizations. Whether you’re looking to hire from one of the Big Three management consultancies, top investment banks or a boutique specialty firm, Charles Aris is the pre-eminent firm to help you build your world-class team.
Our Results
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Since 2003, the Charles Aris Strategy & Corporate Development search team has placed more than 850 candidates at multiple levels in client organizations — 304 in the past three years alone.
Our Network
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The Charles Aris Strategy & Corporate Development database includes more than 36,000 potential candidates from Tier 1 strategy consulting firms.
Corporate development life cycle
The illustration below examines the skill sets of investment bankers and strategy consultants across the six stages of the corporate development life cycle.
What level of consultant to hire?
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Exclusive Content
2021 Strategy Consulting Compensation Study
This year’s study includes 1,052 current management consultant compensation data points gathered via voluntary disclosure over the course of 2020. Also included is a subset of the corporate and private equity offers accepted by Charles Aris strategy candidates.
2020 Strategy Consulting
Mid-Year Offer Report
Our 2020 Mid-Year Offer Report for Strategy Consultants summarizes a sampling of the strategy offers we’ve seen over the course of the past six months, by candidate graduation year, and includes offers which were accepted as well as those which were declined.
Strategy & Corporate Development Newsletter
Subscribe today to receive the Charles Aris Strategy & Corporate Development Newsletter, featuring the latest industry news and analysis from our strategy experts. Also included are mission-critical opportunities we are actively looking to fill on behalf of our client organizations.
The Anatomy of a Chief Strategy Officer
We gathered data for this report through a combination of publicly available sources including, along with live conversations with the CSOs themselves. The 2020 Fortune 500 list was used, and all industry markers were pulled directly from Fortune's website.
Former Strategy Consultant Compensation Study
While collecting data for our annual Strategy Consulting Compensation Data, we had 1,192 former strategy consultants fill out the anonymous survey – laying the foundation for our third-annual Former Consultant Compensation Study.
2020 Corporate Development Offer Report
We're excited to release our most recent Corporate Development Offer Report! The report organizes offers by level, highlights compensation, title and previous employment details, plus whether or not the offer was accepted or declined.Strategy Thought Leadership
Our Team
Industrials; Diversified
Tech, Media & Telecom
Consumer / Retail
Financial Services
CorpDev; Private Equity
CorpDev
CorpDev; Healthcare; Life Sciences
Open Searches
Job Title
Company
Location
Top Quartile Middle Market PE Firm (Consultant Friendly)
Boston or New York City
Confidential Retail Solutions Leader
Cincinnati / Northwestern U.S.
Industry-Leading Med Tech Company
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Publicly Traded Specialty Contracting Services Provider
Dallas, Texas
Industry-Leading High-Growth Industrial / Retail Company
Chicago
High-Growth Real Estate Investment Platform
Remote
Leading Consumer and Food Organization
San Francisco / Flexible
Highly Acquisitive PE Backed Multisite Pet Care Company
San Francisco Area / Seattle, WA / Flexible
Publicly Traded, Diversified Industrial Manufacturer
Houston or Seattle
"Charles Aris helped me in global procurement, corporate strategy, division strategy and customer insights searches. I can’t say enough about their work, but it’s also how they do it. I appreciate their urgency, their passion for my business, and their thorough evaluation and assessment. The follow-up is the best there is, bar none."
— Director of Staffing for a Fortune 100 CPG company
