Strategic Planning Manager

Responsibilities:

Support product strategy team with analysis, tools, models, and management cadence for selected areas of strategic growth.

• Conducts primary and secondary research analysis to examine competitive performance, market need, and opportunities for growth.
• Support teams and business leaders in structuring business cases, customer segmentation, competitive analysis, value-based pricing, economic benchmarking, and technological analysis across business segments.
• Structure customer- and market-segmentation, developing and working with market models, deriving insight from internal and external data sources.
• Support business leaders with effective analysis, modeling, and research tools, to develop recommendations and business plans for programs and service development.
• Consult with stakeholders in the business, to uncover solutions to business challenges and opportunities through critical thinking and problem-solving skills, external benchmarking, and internal best practices.
• Be the focal point and drive pro-active project cadence and “drumbeat” with a diverse set of stakeholders to ensure timely and successful outcomes.
• Manipulate market databases, financial modeling, and analysis in tools such as Excel and Power BI to construct forecasts and analytical models.

Recommendations and Execution:

• Desires to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and has ability to self-manage multiple projects and work streams.
• Works collaboratively with and supports multi-departmental efforts and projects.
• Demonstrates flexibility and organization while maintaining elevated levels of performance.
• Performs other activities as requested and prioritized by the Global Vice President of Strategy for Products & Solutions.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in a consulting firm or internal business consulting function leading initiative teams in strategy, operations, and transformation project work
• Bachelors' Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, or related field; MBA preferred.
• Complex program management experience
• Analytical skills to understand the impact of recommendations on the organization and change management needs they will creation.
• Clear, well developed oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build diverse relationships internally and externally and excel within a matrix organization.
• PC Tools Skills: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Smartsheet and Power BI experience preferred.
• Core Competencies:
  • Strategic Thinking: evaluating industry trends, developing long-term implications, and recommending pragmatic strategies for continuous improvement and new business opportunities.
  • Analytical Rigor: ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and intellectual leadership to problem solving; synthesize insights from analysis and ensure credible, actionable recommendations.
  • Communications skills: ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization, promote ideas and proposals persuasively.