✨Business Analysis / Functional Consulting

The real progression: Business Analysis / Functional Consulting

Turn messy business problems into systems that work.
Fits you if: You're strong in requirements, workshops, process design, and stakeholder wrangling.

The step-by-step path

1. 1
   Business AnalystEntry0–2y

   Gather requirements, document processes, bridge business and IT

   🔑 Gate to next step: prove you can run a clean requirements workshop
2. 2
   Senior Business AnalystMid2–4y

   Own analysis for a workstream end to end

   🔑 Gate to next step: lead a full solution, not just document it
3. 3
   Lead Business AnalystSenior4–6y

   Coordinate multiple analysts, own the analysis approach
4. 4
   Functional ConsultantSenior

   Configure and advise on a platform (e.g. SAP/Salesforce module)

   🔑 Gate to next step: deep platform/domain expertise
5. 5
   Solution / Business Process LeadLead

   Own an end-to-end process design across the enterprise
6. 6
   Functional ArchitectLead

   Design how solutions fit the business architecture
7. 7
   Transformation Lead → Program DirectorExecutive

   Own enterprise transformation outcomes
8. 8
   VP Transformation / COOExecutive

   Own the operating model and business change at scale