Business Design Lead

Would you like to shape the digital future of leading Nordic organizations by working hand-in-hand with their executive teams Do you speak both strategy and technology fluently and thrive in an environment where trust ownership and delivery excellence go hand-in-hand If yes read on.

At Sofigate Business Design means bridging the gap between business and technology to turn strategic goals into real executable change.

We are now looking for a Business Design Lead to join our growing team at Sofigate. This is a 100% client assignment role (formal title will be Senior Advisor) where youll work hands-on with transformation teams across one or more customer organizations. You may be fully allocated to a single client or balance several parallel assignments depending on the customer needs.

In this role you act as the face of Sofigate for your customer building trust through your expertise and taking ownership of the client relationship. With entrepreneurial drive you identify opportunities to deepen collaboration and shape impactful solutions based on real needs.

Heres what it might look like in practice: You might join a retail companys transformation journey and work directly with the CIO and CMO to reduce IT costs while improving omnichannel customer experience. By applying Human-Centric Business Design and the Business Technology Standard you facilitate strategy workshops co-create a transformation roadmap and help build the case for change. You are also hands-on in producing all key materials from insight-driven presentations to clear visual transformation roadmaps. You identify where Sofigates Business Design team can support execution from service design to governance and ensure the team delivers clear measurable value.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Act as the lead Sofigate contact in client engagements owning the relationship with CXO-level stakeholders
• Identify and shape strategic initiatives together with the client (e.g. reducing IT spend while enhancing customer experience)
• Translate complex challenges into structured actionable transformation initiatives
• Independently produce high-quality executive-level deliverables such as presentations roadmaps governance models and communication materials that make a measurable impact
• Work hands-on with the clients business and technology teams planning facilitating and driving progress during active execution
• Facilitate critical discussions at senior level and take full ownership of key outcomes
• Lead and oversee the quality and impact of Business Design team delivery including close collaboration with client personnel and external partners
• Lead across a wide stakeholder network including clients internal teams and ecosystem partners ensuring clarity alignment and momentum
• Support new opportunity development with Sales and Delivery leads

What we expect from you:

• A solid background (typically 5 years of relevant experience in consulting enterprise transformation or strategic advisory)
• Human Centric Business Design methodology experience
• Experience working with executive-level decision-makers (CIO CDO COO CFO)
• Strong understanding of business-technology alignment customer experience and enterprise performance
• Proven ability to both shape strategy and deliver tangible outcomes
• You are fluent in tools like PowerPoint and can turn complex ideas into clear visual deliverables that support executive-level decision making
• Excellent communication and presentation skills you are comfortable leading workshops presenting to CXO-level audiences and defending your insights
• Fluent in Finnish and English (Swedish is a plus)

Additional experience we value:

• Digital transformation or large-scale change initiatives
• Familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF or SAFe
• Experience with AI analytics automation or low-code platforms
• Background in financial services public sector or manufacturing
• Training or certification in leadership facilitation or coaching
  

What we offer:

• A visible impactful role in top-tier client transformations
• Hands-on assignments where you shape direction and deliver real value
• Diverse industry projects from global enterprises to public sector innovations
• Great opportunities for personal growth including access to Sofigate Academy!
• 2.5 days of holiday accrual from the beginning of your employment
• Competitive salary and benefits package to support your well-being
• A flexible people-centric culture where we care dare and grow together

Take ownership of your work. Own your future

As a Sofigator you get the opportunity to work with knowledgeable and driven colleagues develop and challenge yourself and create sustainable value for our customers. You get to be involved cutting-edge projects that are shaping the future of our industry. We have an international vibrant and fun culture with great openness and flexibility. We value every Sofigator and strive to build a diverse equal and inclusive workplace where everyones voice is heard and where everyone can become the best versions of themselves. We value a healthy work life balance and support you in maintaining it.

Growth is not just a corporate thing for us it is personal. There is so much to explore and learn within our community and together with our customers that having a bit of fun is unavoidable.

We do not leave the future up to chance. We take ownership of it. You can too. Own your future!

Interested Share your background skills and motivation to join us by 31.8.2025.

About Sofigate

We are The Business Technology Company with the fastest time-to-value in the gen AI era. We achieve that by combining our transformation expertise with low/no-code platforms and generative AI. Thats how we create sustainable customer value. In practice that means helping our customers to develop the interplay between business and technology: to design build and implement transformations and business-friendly technology solutions like Salesforce ServiceNow and leaders of Business Technology management we are the founder of the Business Technology Forum the developer of the Business Technology Standard. Our team of 800 professionals based in 8 offices across 6 countries Finland Sweden Norway Denmark Hungary and Poland are always ready to help both our colleagues and our customers. At the very core of our being are our values: dare care and grow. We dare to challenge the market foster a community that cares about our people and drive growth with a customer centric business vision.