Corporate Strategy Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in multiple business strategy projects with direct leadership of significant work streams; projects may be within a business unit, across multiple business units, or involve the creation of a new business venture, such as a joint venture, equity alliance, acquisition, etc.
• Design and develop strategy through qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Apply strategic frameworks to analyze opportunities and develop solutions; synthesize environmental data, stakeholder analysis, and market force data as part of the financial and business analysis necessary to develop insights and solutions to support strategic business decisions.
• Work closely with the Business Segment Presidents and their staffs as well as key internal and external constituencies.
• Communicate complex strategy topics clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences through both written and oral communication.
• Actively participate in campus recruiting activities; conduct interviews on campus; interview professional hires.
• Maintain business partnerships by effectively leading internal and external partners, such as peers in other units, staff groups, senior management, and outside suppliers, to accomplish organizational goals and identify opportunities and resolve problems.
• Manage, coach, and mentor others; provide guidance and direction on problems and issues.

Skills:

• Structured thinking
• Clear and effective communication
• High-quality presentation creation
• Acting as a thought partner to BU and segment leaders
• Data and trend analysis with relevant inferences
• Grooming junior strategy resources
• Assertive opinion expression while being open to feedback
• Collaboration with BU and functional teams

Experience:

• Significant relevant work experience, including supervisory experience, required.
• Strategy consulting experience preferred.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Business Administration or equivalent degree required.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Competencies:

• Balances stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Develops talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization s goals.
• Self-development: Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• Demonstrates Motivation and Sense of Ownership: Feels and projects a high degree of motivation and sense of ownership for the project outcomes and the success of the Business.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Drives solutions to strategic problems that fall outside of past experience through a top-down, hypothesis-driven approach with frequent iteration that evolves with diverse learnings gathered through the course of the project.
• Strategy Core Project Output Creation: Drives project output through an insight-driven approach that is founded on efficient and prioritized usage of the resources, and high-quality, credible research and analysis.
• Team Engagement: Engages with project team members formally in team meetings and informally in a manner that helps draw out the best from all team members while respecting the diversity of the team.
• Thought Leadership: Demonstrates independence and insightfulness through objectively approaching problems with creativity and appropriate development and use of frameworks.
• Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.