Strategic Planning Director

Job description

The Director, Strategy will be a key resource to accelerate the growth and strategic ambitions of Cox Enterprises and their portfolio of businesses. The Director will be deployed against several focus areas of the CEI Strategy team, including Enterprise Strategy, Portfolio Management, Growth Operations support, Corporate Functions support, and the Market and Strategic Intelligence function.

Initially, the Director will support the development and implementation of CEI’s Enterprise Strategy and approach to portfolio management (e.g., investment themes and capital allocation). In addition, the Director will support market analysis, insights, and strategic choices within the telecom vertical.

This position requires creative problem-solving and comfort with uncertainty to help drive effective strategic planning in a portfolio with diverse businesses in different stages of their lifecycle. This position requires the candidate to possess well developed skills in core strategy, analysis, and influence and leadership. Candidate should have ability to lead and influence others by acting as a strategic partner to internal clients.

Skills and Responsibilities:

Strategy Skills

Leverage strategic planning methodology

Understand how internal and external assessments shape our opportunities, risks & ability to win

Recommend choices

Articulate our strategy for "where to play", "how to win" & "what to do"

Utilize core strategy skills and frameworks to drive strategic decisioning, effective portfolio management, and market assessments (as needed)

Proficiency with hypothesis-driven analysis

Ability to quickly drive towards insights relevant for strategic decision-making in the absence of complete data

Analysis

Incorporate quantitative analyses through data, market studies and external research to drive insights

Identify root causes, drivers, or critical assumptions related to a specific topic of inquiry

Rapidly develop initial perspectives and assess relative importance of potential areas for further analysis

Ability to build financial models with key drivers to align on sensitivities

Synthesize detailed analysis into highlights, actionable insights and key implications

Execution

Responsible for execution and removing barriers to execution

Define projects, scope and success measures to provide visibility into workstream process and cadence

Ability to keep workstreams and team members and boundary partners on task, focused, and on time

Leadership & Influence

Lead, partner and advise strategy team, boundary partners, the businesses and CEI C-suite

Be a thought leader/partner, bringing new insight and perspective to clients

Utilize strategic thinking and analyses to guide and drive decision making

Develop and sustain effective relationships

Ability to leverage strategic and analytical skills to effectively consult with boundary partners, business leaders, and CEI C-suite on strategic initiatives, topics, and decisioning

Work across teams in order to leverage expertise from the broader organization, gathering strategic feedback and support necessary to drive strategic outcomes

Work Deliverable Examples Include but not Limited to:

Support the strategic planning process and ideation sessions

Preparation of communications, meeting materials and formal meeting summary deliverables that drive the strategic planning process forward

Development of strategic analysis for decision support that drives successful investment decisions

Development of a strategic scorecard and signposts to monitor the telecom vertical

Qualifications:

BA or BS Degree required +10 years of relevant experience upon completing undergraduate degree, or minimum 2-3 years post MBA. Strategic Planning and/or management consulting experience required. Telecom experience preferred.

OR MS degree + 8 years of experience

OR Ph.D. degree + 5 years of experience

OR 14+ years of experience with no degree

Experience in operations and business execution preferred

Experience in strategic business transformation preferred

Strong analytical, modeling, and research skills. Excellent organization and project management skills. Concise and clear verbal and written communication skills.

Comfort challenging, in a respectful manner, positions or perspectives using both analysis and judgement

Utilize critical thinking to apply findings to make recommendations and articulate next steps in ambiguous or emerging opportunities

Ability to establish credibility as an internal thought leader on strategic and business issues.

Ability to work cross-functionally and collaboratively.

Ability to interact with leadership at all levels of the organization.

Ability to interpret complex data and distill it into concise relevant documents and presentations for an executive audience

Ability to think strategically, abstractly, in broad concepts and terms and apply to tangible business plans.

Passion for storytelling, developing concepts for fresh ideas, and translating market insights into compelling pitches

Ability to thrive in a dynamic, diverse portfolio of businesses and markets

Proficient in MS Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Travel as needed (

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Worksite address

atlanta, GA, 30383, US

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