Head - Strategy - Business Initiatives

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Devise and execute diverse strategic business initiatives in partnership with President and the leadership team.

- Market entry strategy, market positioning, competitor analysis etc

- Create internal buy-ins for defined strategy and stakeholder management

- Incubate & operationalize the opportunity including M&A where necessary

- Develop and work with a "high performance" team to deliver the key objectives

- Offer project management and process support to the company, and Leadership team for top line / bottom-line improvement

- Offer analytical support to President for critical financial and strategic initiatives (e.g., critical new product introductions, specific M&A)

- Codify and disseminate best practices from industry and deploy these to enable business transformation.

Skills/Competencies:

- Business acumen: Strategic business orientation and good judgement reflected in key decisions made

- Problem solving: Well-honed analytical and problem-solving skills. Creative, risk-taking and results oriented mindset

- Influencing: Communicates with impact. Uses tailored communication and creates authentic and trusting relationships to influence clients, especially related to organizational planning & design. Confidence in own ideas as demonstrated by experience engaging with best partners.

- Consulting: Strong consulting and facilitation skills

- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to accomplish work through others, including leading project teams. Demonstrated experience in initiating and leading change, including.

JOB DESCRIPTION

- Modeling the importance, motivating others, managing the key drivers of change, and overcoming obstacles

- Self-Management: Self-directed work style, able to work autonomously with minimal direction and deliver results with customer service skills, action-oriented, operates with sense of urgency. Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously

- Flexible: Demonstrated career flexibility and adaptation skills (e.g., successful industry or company changes with minimal learning curve; cross-cultural experience and flexibility if dictated by scope of organization)

- Collaborative: Reaches across boundaries internally and externally to develop and extensive network of partnerships. Ability to manage a complex set of stakeholders

Physical Job Requirements:

- The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to use a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers

Work Environment:

- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.