Director, Corporate Strategy

Key Accountabilities

Capital Strategy

• Develop and maintain a holistic low-cost manufacturing strategy for the USG lines of business
• Analyze industry trends and develop demand forecasts to inform capital investment decisions and priorities
• Evaluate potential capital investments across multiple dimensions, including:

• Current and future delivered cost position relative to competitors

• Locations and capacity sizes to consider for investment

• Potential raw material sources and delivery modes

• Role of warehouses and/or distribution centers to provide top tier service

• Network optimization analysis

• Comprehensive view across all USG product categories

• Assist in the capital authority proposal and approval process
• Conduct return on investment calculations and sensitivity analyses
• Oversee BU capital investments including planning, approvals, and execution

Profitability Improvement and Growth Strategy

• Analyze profitability drivers across multiple dimensions (e.g., channel, geography, product, customer, mode)
• Identify profitability themes and trends across all dimensions
• Develop opportunity set of potential areas of focus and improvement levers
• Measure potential impact of each opportunity and assess ability to execute
• Prioritize initiatives for the gypsum business to implement
• Drive implementation and adoption with sales, manufacturing, and logistics

Strategic Projects

• Direct the development and maintenance of long-range operational forecasts regarding volume, market share, financial requirements, human capital needs, etc.
• Assist in the development of the annual planning and budgeting process for business units

• Lead special projects at the direction of business unit presidents
• Assist with resource load allocation versus business unit annual priorities

M&A Support

• Conduct a market scan to identify potential acquisition targets
• Prioritize potential M&A investments relative to strategic fit, return on investment, and ability to execute
• Coordinate potential joint venture and acquisition deals with internal and external stakeholders
• Assist operational teams with post-merger integration planning

Business Operations Support

• Provide advice and counsel on operational matters of the business
• Ensure strategic financial measurements are consistently applied
• Work to improve service position (VOC, quality improvement)
• Drive internal process efficiencies and lead administrative activities for key BU activities
• Provide input into demand forecasts and other analytics related to production scheduling, profitability, and customer specific requests
• Collaborate with USG Corporation and members of shared services

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA strongly preferred
• 3+ years of experience in management consulting preferred
• Experience in B2B commercial environments with a manufacturing or industrial goods company preferred
• Strategic mindset and ability to structure analyses
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think creatively to test boundaries and long held assumptions
• High-level of business and financial acumen, including financial modeling skills
• Ability to seek and synthesize information into a coherent and powerful strategy
• Experience in capital planning, project implementation planning, and program execution
• Ability to collaborate with other business leaders and functional groups to achieve shared objectives
• Assertive team player that plays to win; enthusiasm and tenacity to carry out difficult tasks to the end
• Outstanding relationship-building skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Effective communicator
• Comfortable dealing with and directing change
• Strong balance of intellectual and emotional intelligence

Key Competencies

• High-level of business and financial acumen
• Strategic mindset and ability to structure analyses
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think creatively to test boundaries and long held assumptions
• Able to collaborate with other business leaders and functional groups to achieve shared objectives
• Able to motivate others t