Experienced Global Location Strategy Services
Helping clients select success
What we do
Drawing on more than 35 years of experience, we deliver solutions in the fields of location, site selection, and economic development strategy.
Location Strategy & Site Selection
We are uniquely qualified to assist companies with their site selection projects by leveraging our deep global project experience across the corporate functional spectrum--manufacturing, distribution, data centers, shared services, headquarters, and R&D. We design and manage the process, from location and site screening through due diligence and incentive negotiation. Working side by side with our clients, we develop a thorough, logical and defensible location decision process. .
Economic Development Strategy
We have proven success in helping transform EDOs into highly focused business expansion, retention, and attraction agencies, focused on the issues that are driving corporate expansion and location decisions, such as talent, infrastructure, ready sites, and quality of place. Our analysis and recommendations are actionable and defensible, designed to aid in your economic development process for years to come.
About schneider strategy consulting, LLC
Phil Schneider, President
Phil Schneider is an internationally recognized management consultant. He has more than 35 years of experience in the field of corporate location strategy, site selection, incentive negotiation and economic development. Prior to starting Schneider Strategy Consulting, he was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting and led their corporate location strategy and site selection practice. Phil started his career at Fantus Consulting (creators of the corporate site selection methodology), where as Director he was responsible for managing site selection and economic development consulting projects.
Phil has conducted more than 400 engagements across industries and corporate functions including heavy manufacturing/processing, advanced technology manufacturing, headquarters, R &D, distribution centers, customer support/contact centers, and shared services. For his corporate clients, Mr. Schneider:
- Develops corporate location strategy and selection decision process and decision frameworks;
- Screens and analyzes countries, states, and cities to identify locations and sites meeting specific company operational requirements;
- Conducts field due diligence to inspect local work force, infrastructure, real estate/sites, living conditions, and other business conditions and costs;
- Develops operating cost and business conditions benchmarking models; and,
- Leads negotiations for government incentives and real estate acquisition.
Mr. Schneider has conducted location strategy and site selection projects throughout the world with a focus on Foreign Direct Investment projects. In addition to conducting location screening and business cost/conditions reviews of nearly all industrialized countries in the world, Mr. Schneider has conducted in-country, in-person field work in more than 35 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Phil speaks around the U.S. and the world on topics related to foreign direct investment, site selection, economic development, placemaking as economic development strategy, workforce development, business attraction, and more. Click here for a list of Phil's past speaking engagement topics.
Phil is a Board Member, Treasurer and Past Chairman of the Site Selectors Guild.