Strategy Consultant Jobs in Ohio
Strategy Consultant jobs in Ohio are active and competitive, concentrated in corporate strategy, operations improvement, and financial advisory work across industries from healthcare and insurance to manufacturing and logistics, with openings at every level from analyst to principal. Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati anchor most of the hiring, where employers like Nationwide, Deloitte, and Accenture maintain substantial Ohio footprints. Demand is strongest for consultants with deep expertise in digital transformation, supply chain strategy, and healthcare operations. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Launch your communications career helping clients build trust, engage communities, and manage meaningful stakeholder relationships.
ERM is seeking a Senior Consultant, Strategic Communications in Columbus, Ohio to support client projects and provide communications-related administrative support to our Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Engagement team. This role plays an important part in helping clients effectively communicate with stakeholders, manage public engagement activities, track community feedback, and support project delivery through high-quality communications, research, analysis, and coordination.
Why This Role Matters?
As a Senior Consultant, you will support strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, and public outreach initiatives across a variety of projects. You will help facilitate meaningful interactions between clients and their stakeholders while contributing to research, communications development, event coordination, and community engagement activities that support successful project outcomes.
What Your Impact Is:
Conduct traditional and social media monitoring using web-based and licensed monitoring tools to identify trends, opportunities, and potential risks, and provide analysis that supports client objectives.
Research, identify, and maintain stakeholder information, including elected officials and staff, agencies, environmental organizations, community groups, and business organizations.
Maintain stakeholder and public comment tracking databases and prepare reports and summaries.
Support the development of communications materials, including fact sheets, newsletters, meeting summaries, reports, and project updates.
Coordinate public meeting and event logistics, including venue arrangements, catering, presentation materials, handouts, and attendee support.
Participate in community outreach events and stakeholder engagement activities, including one-on-one interactions with stakeholders and members of the public.
Manage project communication channels, including voicemail systems and email response coordination.
Provide administrative support including task tracking, mail merges, proofreading, online research, meeting coordination, file maintenance, report preparation, travel planning, conference call support, and vendor coordination.
Comply with project-specific health and safety requirements.
Support additional ERM service areas and projects as needed.
What You'll Bring:
Required
BS/BA in Communications, Public Affairs, Journalism, English, Political Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
3-4 years of relevant professional experience; internships and related experience may be considered.
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.
Adaptable, proactive, and collaborative approach to work.
Ability to work in a hybrid environment with occasional travel (approximately 2-4 weeks annually).
Experience using social media platforms.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Preferred
1-2 years of public relations, public affairs, communications, stakeholder engagement, or related experience.
Spanish language fluency.
Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, or similar design tools.
Experience supporting public outreach, community engagement, or event coordination initiatives.
Local candidates are preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
Traditional and social media monitoring and analysis.
Stakeholder database management and reporting.
Communications content development and writing support.
Public meeting and event coordination.
Community and stakeholder outreach participation.
Administrative and project support activities.
Collaboration with multidisciplinary project teams.
Compliance with health and safety procedures.
For the Senior Consultant, Strategic Communications position, the anticipated annual base pay is $78,500–$99,100 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.
Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.
Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.
ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Thank you for your interest in ERM!
#LI-Hybrid
Launch your communications career helping clients build trust, engage communities, and manage meaningful stakeholder relationships.
ERM is seeking a Senior Consultant, Strategic Communications in Columbus, Ohio to support client projects and provide communications-related administrative support to our Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Engagement team. This role plays an important part in helping clients effectively communicate with stakeholders, manage public engagement activities, track community feedback, and support project delivery through high-quality communications, research, analysis, and coordination.
Why This Role Matters?
As a Senior Consultant, you will support strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, and public outreach initiatives across a variety of projects. You will help facilitate meaningful interactions between clients and their stakeholders while contributing to research, communications development, event coordination, and community engagement activities that support successful project outcomes.
What Your Impact Is:
Conduct traditional and social media monitoring using web-based and licensed monitoring tools to identify trends, opportunities, and potential risks, and provide analysis that supports client objectives.
Research, identify, and maintain stakeholder information, including elected officials and staff, agencies, environmental organizations, community groups, and business organizations.
Maintain stakeholder and public comment tracking databases and prepare reports and summaries.
Support the development of communications materials, including fact sheets, newsletters, meeting summaries, reports, and project updates.
Coordinate public meeting and event logistics, including venue arrangements, catering, presentation materials, handouts, and attendee support.
Participate in community outreach events and stakeholder engagement activities, including one-on-one interactions with stakeholders and members of the public.
Manage project communication channels, including voicemail systems and email response coordination.
Provide administrative support including task tracking, mail merges, proofreading, online research, meeting coordination, file maintenance, report preparation, travel planning, conference call support, and vendor coordination.
Comply with project-specific health and safety requirements.
Support additional ERM service areas and projects as needed.
What You'll Bring:
Required
BS/BA in Communications, Public Affairs, Journalism, English, Political Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
3-4 years of relevant professional experience; internships and related experience may be considered.
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.
Adaptable, proactive, and collaborative approach to work.
Ability to work in a hybrid environment with occasional travel (approximately 2-4 weeks annually).
Experience using social media platforms.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
Preferred
1-2 years of public relations, public affairs, communications, stakeholder engagement, or related experience.
Spanish language fluency.
Experience with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, or similar design tools.
Experience supporting public outreach, community engagement, or event coordination initiatives.
Local candidates are preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
Traditional and social media monitoring and analysis.
Stakeholder database management and reporting.
Communications content development and writing support.
Public meeting and event coordination.
Community and stakeholder outreach participation.
Administrative and project support activities.
Collaboration with multidisciplinary project teams.
Compliance with health and safety procedures.
For the Senior Consultant, Strategic Communications position, the anticipated annual base pay is $78,500–$99,100 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.
Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.
Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.
ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Thank you for your interest in ERM!
#LI-Hybrid
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Strategy Consultant Job Market in Ohio
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Distribution & Wholesale
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Ohio Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in strategy consultant jobs across Ohio.
- Bachelor's degree in business, economics, engineering, or a related analytical field
- Demonstrated experience developing and presenting strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Proficiency in quantitative analysis, financial modeling, and data interpretation tools
- Strong project management skills with experience leading cross-functional initiatives
- Advanced degree such as an MBA preferred for senior or client-facing positions
- Familiarity with Ohio's dominant sectors including healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing
Strategy Consultant Jobs in Ohio: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a strategy consultant in Ohio?
Most strategy consultant roles in Ohio require at minimum a bachelor's degree in business, economics, or a related field, with many employers preferring an MBA for senior positions. Ohio does not require a state-issued license to practice management or strategy consulting. The most direct path is graduating from one of Ohio's strong business programs, such as Fisher College of Business or the Lindner College of Business, then targeting analyst or associate roles at consulting firms or corporate strategy teams based in Columbus, Cleveland, or Cincinnati.
How much do strategy consultants make in Ohio?
Strategy consultants in Ohio earn a median of about $94,270 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $61,600 for the lowest 10% to over $146,740 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire strategy consultants in Ohio?
Employers hiring strategy consultants in Ohio right now include Environmental Resources Management, RSM, and KeyBank, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Ohio's concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters and major healthcare systems means both independent consulting firms and in-house corporate strategy teams are consistently active in the market.
Which Ohio cities have the most strategy consultant jobs?
Cleveland, Dublin, and Brooklyn have the most strategy consultant openings in Ohio. Columbus leads because of its dense cluster of insurance, financial services, and tech company headquarters, while Cleveland's healthcare and manufacturing base drives demand there, and Cincinnati's consumer goods and logistics firms generate consistent need for operational and growth strategy expertise.
Are there remote strategy consultant jobs in Ohio?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 67% of strategy consultant openings tied to Ohio are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the desk-based and analytical nature of the work. Project delivery and client presentation phases tend to be the most remote-compatible, while engagements requiring on-site discovery or stakeholder workshops typically call for in-person presence.
How can I get hired as a strategy consultant in Ohio with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is targeting junior analyst or associate consultant roles at mid-size Ohio consulting firms or the in-house strategy teams of large Ohio employers like Nationwide, Cardinal Health, or Fifth Third Bank. Many of these organizations run structured rotational or early-career programs designed for recent graduates. Adjacent roles in financial analysis, business operations, or project coordination at Ohio companies are also a common launchpad, with an MBA or a demonstrated portfolio of data-driven problem-solving giving candidates a meaningful edge.
Where can I find and apply to strategy consultant jobs in Ohio?
You can find and apply to strategy consultant jobs in Ohio on Migrate Mate, which lists current Ohio openings from employers actively hiring in the state. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and target market, and apply directly to the positions that fit.
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