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

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.