The Director, Corporate Strategy supports key priorities of the enterprise strategy agenda including topics related to strategy development, cross-functional enterprise initiatives and enterprise critical routines.
What You’ll Do For Us
- Partner and collaborate inside the department with various Sr. leaders, including the Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy & Corporate Development, Vice President, Enterprise-Wide Initiatives & Strategic Transformation, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, and Vice President, Enterprise Learning, as well as outside the department with Functions/OUs/Platform Services based on the priorities of the enterprise and the department.
- For priorities identified, be a critical project team member to deliver expectations. Drive own work-stream effectively with limited guidance, demonstrating initiative and the ability to be self-driven; proactively raise issues and challenges that occur along the way.
- Conduct analysis to provide initial recommendations for workstream that solve specific issues identified and that are sufficiently pragmatic.
- More broadly, demonstrate increasing understanding of the priorities of the function and take the initiative to surface opportunities to achieve them.
- Drive relevant analysis and insights (be able to offer initial implications of analysis), both individually and with the help of PS/OUs/Functions to support rotating priorities and share results in a digestible manner to Operating Committee.
- For specific workstreams, lead a network of peers and/or consultants to drive towards end-products and clear deliverables.
- Serve as a super user and advocate for enterprise-approved AI and digital productivity tools to enhance strategic analysis, accelerate insight generation, improve team productivity, and increase the quality and speed of deliverables.
- Share leading AI best practices, coach Strategy associates on effective use cases, and promote adoption of approved AI capabilities
Qualifications & Experience
- 7-9 years of business experience, with experience in strategy, finance, or other generalist fields
- Graduate Degree in business, strategy or a related field
- Ability to work in a diverse cultural environment, highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels, depending on priorities of the Strategy department, exemplifying network ways of working
- Ability to partner with leaders of the Corporate Strategy team as well as the network of OUs/Functions/Platform Services.
- Strong problem solving - ability to be hypothesis-driven, drive from analysis to insights and implications, be comfortable taking in data and input from a variety of different sources, and to be structured and logical in thinking
- Strong team player willing to help others out in team during projects
- Analytical with attention to detail but at the same time able to be 80:20, prioritize appropriately and to be comfortable with a certain amount of ambiguity
- Ability to rotate across priorities and multi-task, leverage relationships with key business partners, comfortable in working closely with OUs/Functions/Platform Services, with stakeholder management capabilities
- Outstanding communication skills (both written and verbal) - ability to synthesize, some ability to pull disparate analyses together into a single narrative; some ability to develop visually compelling charts and create portions of crisply written white papers that focus on key messages.
- Proficiency in both Microsoft Excel (for analysis) and PowerPoint (for visual communication)
- Demonstrated experience using generative AI, automation, analytics, and digital productivity tools to improve business processes, enhance problem solving and decision making, data analysis, communication, and productivity in a business environment
- Curiosity and aptitude for learning and applying new digital and AI capabilities, with the ability to translate technological advances into practical applications and outcomes
Key Knowledge Required
- Critical Thinking
- Data Analysis & Insights
- Process Management & Improvement
- Business Acumen
- Networking & Influencing
- Collaboration
- AI-Enabled Productivity & Ways of Working
- Digital Tools Adoption & Change Leadership
Broad Expertise In
- Technology
- Agile ways of working
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Storytelling
