Director, Corporate Strategy

Location(s):

United States of America

City/Cities:

Atlanta

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

July 13, 2024

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

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

• 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.

Scope:  Global

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)

Key Knowledge Required:

• Critical Thinking
• Data Analysis & Insights
• Process Management & Improvement
• Business Acumen
• Networking & Influencing
• Collaboration

Broad Expertise in:

• Technology
• Agile ways of working
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Storytelling

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Collaborative Leadership, Communication, Decision Making, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Long Term Planning, Microsoft Office, Process Improvements, Project Management, Researching, Stakeholder Management, Storytelling, Tactical Planning

Pay Range:

$158,000 - $184,000

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on th