Published: August 23, 2024 - The Corporate Strategy Specialist operates within the strategy team, focusing on internal strategic projects crucial to the organization's overall strategy, conducting industry analyses, and identifying potential growth opportunities through in-depth reviews of the competitive landscape and consumer trends. This role involves driving both active and passive exploration of inorganic growth avenues, supporting M&A and partnership ventures with robust analytical insights, and performing quantitative analysis necessary for strategic planning. Collaboratively working with key project stakeholders and managing relationships across a matrixed organization, the specialist ensures the delivery of desired project outcomes, develops clear communication materials for executive presentation, and sources external data to enhance analysis accuracy.
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1. Corporate Strategy Specialist, Vertex Consulting Group, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Review market trends and help determine implications for Aker Solutions’ businesses based on comprehensive research and data analysis.
- Contribute to assessments through analysis and documentation of findings.
- Support the development of business cases to evaluate growth opportunities and the development of key materials for decision support and communication to the organization
- Help develop relevant and quantitative plans based on identified strategies and targets
- Drive and support strategic projects and associated action planning development for key initiatives
- Leverage a broad set of resources to bring objective, externally driven perspectives, options, or recommendations to business partners
- Summarize project learnings and recommendations for review with leaders
- Synthesize data from multiple sources
- Create materials for Senior Leadership Team and Board meetings
- Respond to questions and follow-ups
- Conduct qualitative research via internal stakeholder and external expert interviews
- Present analyses and recommendations.
Skills on Resume:
- Market Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Data Synthesis (Hard Skills)
- Business Case Development (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Quantitative Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Executive Communication (Soft Skills)
- Qualitative Research (Hard Skills)
2. Corporate Strategy Specialist, Blue Horizon Solutions, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Ideate with internal stakeholders on opportunities for organic and inorganic growth and keenly identify opportunities/areas for expansion
- Provide analytical and execution support to the organization's growth initiatives, including financial model development, communication of strategy and required execution plan for potential growth opportunities
- Support projects and ensure successful delivery, project satisfaction and lead presentation of key outputs to the business
- Support in managing the organization alignment/structure through which CACTUS can realize the synergies from the investments it has made in other companies – including post-merger integration.
- Actively support and be engaged in the details of the product development roadmap with the product team
- Support strategic initiatives in the areas of Environment, Social and Governance
- Manage the development and implementation of strategic organization development, change management and transformation strategies, projects and plans in support of the company's strategic directions and priorities
- Conduct research and data analysis to inform business decisions
- Assess internal processes and external factors to identify improvement and growth opportunities
- Drive and take charge of strategic initiatives
- Provide strategic inputs on processes such as performance review and financial forecasts
- Develop clear and concise written materials to present key findings
- Support the development of executive-level presentation materials
Skills on Resume:
- Growth Opportunity Identification (Hard Skills)
- Financial Model Development (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Post-Merger Integration (Hard Skills)
- Product Development Roadmap (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Initiative Support (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Inputs (Hard Skills)
- Executive-Level Presentation (Soft Skills)
3. Corporate Strategy Specialist, Peak Performance Strategies, Boulder, CO
Job Summary:
- Work as part of the strategy team on internal strategic projects identified as critical to the delivery of overall organization strategy
- Conduct analyses on the industry / competitive landscape and key retail/consumer trends, developing a view on potential growth opportunities
- Drive active/passive exploration of inorganic growth opportunities and provide key analytical support on M&A / partnership exploration
- Design, construct and perform quantitative analysis, modeling, and forecasting required for strategic planning
- Drive quantitative analyses and summarize key findings to an Executive level
- Work collaboratively with key project stakeholders to drive desired project outcomes
- Develop clear and concise written materials to present key findings
- Navigate internally across a matrixed organization to collect quantitative input and qualitative assessments as input to key analyses
- Work collaboratively with and manage key project stakeholders (including senior-level management) to drive desired project outcomes
- Source external data required to perform analyses, triangulate across multiple sources to validate accuracy/relevance
- Assist qualitative research via internal stakeholder and external expert interviews
- Proactively identify first-order insights / second-order implications
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Industry Analysis (Hard Skills)
- M&A Support (Hard Skills)
- Quantitative Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Executive-Level Summarization (Hard Skills)
- Collaborative Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
- Clear Written Communication (Soft Skills)
- Qualitative Research (Hard Skills)