Manager Corporate Strategy

Job Overview

The Strategy Manager will report to the Strategy Director for the Industrial Solutions Segment and will work on the Segment’s global strategy. 
Travel is expected less than 20% of the time to meet colleagues and clients, attend industry events, etc.
This is an opportunity for a talented individual who wants to accelerate their career within a leading multination corporation and build a career within strategy or line roles.  
As a member of the Industrial Solutions Strategy team, you will contribute to growth strategy, portfolio recommendations, competitive strategy, and business performance by working on strategic decisions and key business issues.  

Job Responsibilities:

• Support development of robust strategic plans, with a strong focus on identifying key growth levers for our businesses (i.e., identify business expansion & M&A opportunities)
• Effectively translate business requests into well-defined problems.
• Collaborates with the Segment and with the Business Unit teams to solve complex business problems. The segment strategy team supports urgent and high-value strategic topics across all of our businesses within IS
• Develop strategies and approaches to fulfill complex project assignments in creative and meaningful ways.
• Identify key trends across markets, industries, and competitors that affect our businesses.
• Analyze industry structure, competitive dynamics, market attractiveness, technology and regulatory trends. Project likely evolutions to inform strategy development,
• Create analytical models to address key business questions and translate output into clear stories.
• Lead the overall fact base creation and communication process.
• Guide and coach junior project team members and support talent development, wellbeing and inclusion initiatives that we lead across the Industrial Solutions Segment

Desired Candidate Profile:

Success in the role requires strong business acumen and strategic mindset, drive to solve complex business problems, exceptional communication and presentation skills, ability to work seamlessly with team members at multiple levels in the organization, and the skills and tenacity to achieve results without formal authority.
In addition, successful candidate will have the following qualifications, experiences, and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in technical discipline (Engineering, Quantitative, Finance) from a leading institution
• Experience in strategy formulation and implementation (or related fields) within a complex organization (e.g., supporting strategy development and implementation projects through their lifecycles within industrial or comparable B2B businesses, consulting, finance etc.)
• Ideally experience working at a top tier General Management Consulting Firm and serving diversified industrials or high-tech clients (preferred 2-3+ years)
• Ability to structure and solve complex problems using a hypothesis-driven approach.
• Ability to structure work, manage strategy projects, and provide thought leadership
• Proficient in sourcing and analyzing complex data.
• Clear and concise oral and written communication - ability to synthesize and effectively communicate key messages.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Thought leadership and business sense.
• Ability to architect and create insights through strategy tools, frameworks, and processes.
• Experience managing individual contributors.
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
• Able to work with and through others and to influence others to move toward a common vision
• Being hands-on, staying connected to the ongoing strategy deployment and helping manage implementation when necessary.
• Strong relationship builder.
• Executive presence; not through arrogance, rather collaboration and influencing.
• High cross-cultural awareness Orientation towards people development, tailoring projects and work priorities to help nurture talent and extended through regular coaching and feedback.
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