Director, Corporate Strategy

Grade Level (for internal use): 13 Director, Corporate Strategy

The Role:

Director, S&P Global Corporate Strategy The Team:
You are part of the larger Strategy, M&A and Investments Team reporting to the Global Head of Corporate Strategy. Specifically, this role focuses on our S&P Global (SPGI) Corporate Strategy supporting a broad range of strategic activities for a business of approximately $14billion in revenue and over 40,000 employees worldwide. Our team partners closely with Finance, enterprise functions and the divisional teams.

As part of a larger enterprise team, you will have complementary talent to support your success as you oversee establishing strategic growth priorities, and tracking key business metrics and progress against strategic initiatives.

The Director, Corporate Strategy is a critical member of the Strategy team and the broader Finance, Strategy, M&A, Corporate Development and Partnerships community. You are focused on driving the near- and long-term strategic objectives for the business and engaging the Enterprise Leadership Team. You will manage multiple complex projects of significant impact at one time, often across departmental boundaries and geographies.

You will influence senior leaders across the business and functional groups and build consensus and ownership of ideas, plans and output.

You will gain exposure to our various divisions and get exposure with senior executives across the organization. You will get to learn from industry experts and help shape an iconic company in a pivotal moment across the industry. There has hardly been a better time to be at the center of the strategic decision making and strategic planning for S&P. There is a focus on corporate strategy development along with some M&A prospecting, due diligence, and transaction execution.

In this role, you will partner closely with teams across S&P Global to identify and assess organic and inorganic growth opportunities.

• Oversee a broad range of strategic priorities to ensure deliverables complete on time, which may involve moving strategic initiatives from concepts to actionable business concepts.
• Oversee or lead project-specific cross-function teams to deliver excellent strategy output. Be a role model, educator, coach, mentor across the wider organization.
• In close partnership with Divisional Strategy leads and the overall SPGI Strategy, M&A and Partnership team, work on strategic advisory projects focused on strategy development and execution, corporate development, and strategic partnerships (including market entry strategies, executive presentations, financial analysis).
• Leverage scenario planning, case studies and modeling capabilities to strengthen the strategy.
• Analyze businesses and opportunities to assist the company in executing strategic decisions.
• Develop and maintain financial analysis models to assist in investment evaluation and business case development, project prioritization and investment approval process.
• Articulate the S&P Global strategy in a clear and compelling strategic narrative to key stakeholders, tailoring messages depending on executive audience.
• Participate in the preparation of communication of SPGI strategy and updates to the board of directors and to the investor community.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies.
• Participate in the identification of changes in market conditions, industry trends, regulatory environment, regional or country macro-economic factors, etc., which may require changes to strategic plans, including the progression of technology and its effect on strategic plans.
• Proactively engage with stakeholders to source, evaluate, and develop new…