Director, Corporate Strategy
Location: Atlanta, GA
Travel: 10-15%
The Director, Corporate Strategy supports key priorities of the Strategy department and rotates across Enterprise Strategy Development, Enterprise-Wide Initiatives and Enterprise Learning on a project basis, with the bulk of work expected to focus on Strategy Development.
What You’ll Do for Us
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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.
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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.
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Conduct analysis to provide initial recommendations for workstream that solve specific issues identified and that are sufficiently pragmatic.
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More broadly, demonstrate increasing understanding of the priorities of the function and take the initiative to surface opportunities to achieve them.
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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.
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For specific workstreams, lead a network of peers and/or consultants to drive towards end-products and clear deliverables.
Scope: Global
Qualifications & Experience
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7-9 years of business experience, with experience in strategy, finance, or other generalist fields
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Graduate Degree in business, strategy or a related field
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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
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Ability to partner with leaders of the Corporate Strategy team as well as the network of OUs/Functions/Platform Services.
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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
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Strong team player willing to help others out in team during projects
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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
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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
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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.
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Proficiency in both Microsoft Excel (for analysis) and PowerPoint (for visual communication)
Key Knowledge Required:
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Critical Thinking
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Data Analysis & Insights
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Process Management & Improvement
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Business Acumen
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Networking & Influencing
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Collaboration
Broad Expertise in:
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Technology
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Agile ways of working
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Comfort with ambiguity
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Storytelling
Skills:
Agile Methodology; Microsoft Office; Communication; Tactical Planning; Stakeholder Management; Long Term Planning; Key Performance Indicators (KPI); Collaborative Leadership; Decision Making; Researching; Process Improvements; Project Management; Storytelling