Large publicly traded service company seeks a Strategy and Innovation Manager to join their team. This role is fully remote.
In this high impact, highly visible role, you will help shape company’s vision and short- and long-term strategy & innovation agenda; and help translate both into clear direction for the business units and functions. This position presents a unique opportunity to play a key role in supporting COMPANY’s most transformative projects. The Strategy & Innovation team works like an internal consulting group partnering closely with corporate, business unit and functional leadership to solve business challenges and inform decision-making in the most critical, high impact areas of the business – from corporate/business unit strategy to digital roadmap to operational and organizational effectiveness to business process redesign. The Internal Consultant reports to COMPANY’s SVP, Strategy & Innovation and presents a unique opportunity to work in close proximity to senior COMPANY leadership.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic analysis and insights to drive the strategic planning process and the evolution of a short- and long-term strategic plan
- Support the highest priority, high impact strategic, digital/innovation, operational and organizational projects
- Develop deep customer, industry, market and competitive insights
- Establish relationships and interfacing with cross-functional/business unit teams to achieve goals and desired outcomes
- Contribute to the development/coordination of presentations, communications, planning materials and other strategy-related documents that are both internally- and externally-impacting.
Qualifications
- MBA preferred. Bachelor’s degree with demonstrated academic excellence, ideally in a discipline such as business, economics, engineering, marketing, or mathematics required.
- 3-5+ years of experience with a strategy/management consulting firm, strategic planning/corporate strategy group, investment banking or private equity/venture capital firm.
- Demonstrate excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Strong quantitative and analytic skills required.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Self-starter with an intellectual curiosity and teamwork capabilities.
- Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
- Able to work autonomously and be comfortable with ambiguity.
- Accountability to take full ownership for everything you do
- Focused on delivering high quality and timely deliverables with a positive approach towards the work.
- Hunger for continuous improvement and a desire to be challenged
- Collaborative, work well within a small, high-performing team