Strategy Manager

Strategy Manager

The Strategy team is at the center, leading this transformation by defining our enterprise strategy and designing the path to get there. The Strategy Manager will play a pivotal role by collaborating with C-suite and senior leadership to unlock market and operational insights, define corporate and business unit strategies, develop new and emerging business lines, and drive strategy implementation throughout the company.

Former strategy team members have gone on to be promoted within the department or pivoted to leadership roles across company verticals.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior leaders across the company to identify, prioritize, and solve key strategic challenges
• Define project scope, construct project workplans, execute defect-free analysis, and generate corresponding actionable recommendations
• Communicate with critical stakeholders to generate 'buy-in' and partnership in solution creation and implementation
• Facilitate cross-functional meetings to convey complex ideas, drive project plans, and moderate discussion and debate with increasing independence
• Prepare executive level presentations summarizing findings and recommending actions
• Guide the implementation of strategic projects including implementation planning, milestone and metric-setting, and on-going tracking
• Leverage market research and strategic frameworks to create strategic plans for enterprise and individual regions/business units, including support of annual and 5-year planning processes
• Support the business planning and process development of internal start-ups/new verticals within the enterprise
• Analyze new market opportunities within and outside the core business and develop business plans to assess growth potential and go-to-market strategy
• Evaluate investment opportunities, including M&A, for strategic fit and financial return
• Design corresponding organization and operating model to support the implementation of strategic decisions
• 'Manage up' by appropriately engaging team and company leadership on critical findings or decision points, while acting as a collaborative partner and mentor to colleagues inside and outside the Strategy organization

Requirements:

• 2-4 years of pre-MBA strategy consulting experience
• Excellent project management skills with ability to prioritize and drive multiple simultaneous projects
• Strong problem-solving skills including using a hypothesis-driven approach to define and deconstruct problems, structure appropriate quantitative and qualitative/conceptual analyses, and identify implications and "so what's" of data and analysis
• Ability to formulate and deliver complex information to senior management in a concise and clear way, in both written and oral presentation

Nice to Have:

• 1-2 years within construction, manufacturing, or adjacent industry preferred, but not required
• Strong financial and Excel modeling skills; experience in Tableau and Alteryx preferred, but not required
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership qualities with demonstrated ability to gain the confidence of individuals at all levels of the company
• Enthusiasm for construction industry, and the enterprise's long-term strategy / vision
• Willingness to get hands dirty and do whatever it takes to ensure success