Job Description
Your Role
- In this role, you will be leading the strategic planning, planning and project management and cooperating closely with internal and external stakeholders to help deliver our key strategic business goals.
- We are looking for an experienced strategy manager to shape our organization's long-term strategy and develop measures that realize our business objectives.
- The strategy manager will be tasked with assessing organizational performance, developing achievable goals and implementing processes that improve organizational effectiveness and build a sustainable competitive advantage. You should be familiar with business operations and demonstrate excellent leadership skills.
- To be successful as a strategy manager you should have research experience, an analytical mind and outstanding presentation skills. Ultimately, a top-notch strategy manager should be a strategic thinker with strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
Your Team
- You will be working in the group strategy team consisting of a number of like minded and similarly qualified individuals, often ex-consultants, reporting into the Head of Strategy.
Responsibilities
- Suggesting improvements to existing business strategies to drive growth
- Driving and overseeing the progress of multiple key strategic projects
- Supporting the preparation of strategic business cases and presentation materials
- Managing and contributing to strategic projects utilising problem solving frameworks
- Stakeholder management: building and nurturing strong advisory relationships with key external and internal senior stakeholders including influencing executives
- Defining problems and strategic solutions - scoping, analysing, preparing and presenting strategy checks
- Mentoring more junior team members
- Conducting strategic research
- Identifying issues, developing hypotheses and communicating insights and recommendations to key decision makers
- Providing active guidance to team members in the course of key strategic projects
- Developing an in-depth understanding of our business and external market forces
- Developing a reporting schedule of all Executive reporting Committees and designated Senate committees
- Supporting the development of long-term organizational strategy.
- Conducting research and analyses of operational effectiveness, processes, stakeholders, etc.
- Aligning departmental goals, processes and resource allocation with the organizational strategy.
- Assessing market trends and competitors.
- Identifying threats and opportunities.
- Presenting findings, projections and recommended actions.
- Planning, implementing and managing proposed recommendations and projects.
- Monitoring and reporting on projects.
- Supporting and guiding senior executive decision-making processes.
Your Experience
- 4+ years’ tenure in a recognised strategy consulting business
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of strategic problem solving and frameworks, and project management skills
- Ability to liaise with stakeholders and influence people of a diverse range of backgrounds
- Experience in applying strategic frameworks and tools for analysing strategic problems and developing strategies
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to establish credibility and strong relationships with senior stakeholders
- Strong performance across a broad range of strategic engagements
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
Your Qualifications
- Essential:Strong academic record, Bachelor’s Degree qualified
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Benefits
At Stackivy, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- Pension
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Health insurance
- L&D training