Strategic Development Manager

Job Description

-Strategy Definition: The Strategy Manager is tasked with bringing together crucial pieces of information such as competitor performance, operational performance, innovations, markets, from various internal and external sources in order to develop strategic options -Strategic Planning: The Strategy Manager is responsible for the development of a decentralized activity planning process and ensuring its adoption across the businesses. He manages the development of corporate plans and budgets by playing a lead role in all the planning and budgeting activities performed by the business. In this position, the Strategy Manager establishes and reviews key strategic priorities and translates them into actionable and quantitative plans -Strategic Performance Management: The Strategy Manager is also responsible for the management and development of the business’s KPI infrastructure in order to facilitate analysis and reporting of performance against plans and budgets as well as strategic objectives. The Strategy Manager manages the development of weekly/quarterly/annual performance reports for the business’s leaders as well as facilitating cross-functional performance reviews for this leadership -Analytics: The Strategy Manager will also have an analytical role where he will manage analyses that will provide valuable benchmarking for management as well as timely insights to various departments. He will analyze long-term market trends for the purpose of providing recommendations to leadership and management across the business in regard to business development opportunities, inclusive of acquisition and disposal strategies -Collaboration: The Strategy Manager plays a highly collaborative role and will routinely work with the business’s senior executives in setting the vision and agenda of the business and work with the day-to-day planning teams in developing a clear roadmap that will realize the business’s vision. The Strategy Manager also works with the business’s clients in order to realize real business issues and develop a strategy for the business’s direction from the gathered insights