Corporate Strategy Manager

WHAT DOES A CORPORATE STRATEGY MANAGER DO? Updated: Jan 06, 2025 - The Corporate Strategy Manager leads the delivery of research and analysis to support corporate and enterprise strategy decisions, formulating strategic frameworks for C-suite decision-making. This role involves identifying and analyzing business issues, driving decision-making through strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks, and preparing concise, impactful presentations for management reviews and executive meetings. Additionally, the manager champions long-term strategic priorities, ensuring alignment across functions such as Advanced Analytics, HR, IT, and Finance to achieve the organization’s goals. A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Corporate Strategy Manager

Decision Support: Support decision-making on corporate and enterprise strategy decisions by leading the delivery of quantitative and qualitative research, analysis, and strategic framework formulation. Business Issue Analysis: Identify and deconstruct business issues and develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to drive decision-making. Threat and Opportunity Identification: Partner with the Corporate Strategy and Transformation team and other business partners to identify emerging business threats and opportunities that span multiple functions. Framework Creation: Research and create frameworks to facilitate C-suite decision-making. Innovation Pipeline: Drive research into business expander models and maintain a pipeline of innovation opportunities. Project Identification: Identify projects for further exploration. Presentation Preparation: Help prepare materials for monthly management reviews, executive offsites, board meetings, consolidating findings into concise, thought-provoking, and decision-driving presentations. Strategic Planning: Partner with Strategic Finance to build a Strategic Long-Range Plan. Communication Support: Support Communication and Enterprise Alignment behind the Corporate Strategy. Framework Establishment: Support the establishment of frameworks to communicate strategic decisions across the enterprise, ensuring all functions, including business operations, Advanced Analytics, HR, IT, and Finance, work towards the same long-term goals. Strategic Priorities Advocacy: Act as a champion for long-term strategic priorities across the organization by identifying and implementing innovative methods to communicate and gain alignment. Framework Development: Develop frameworks to analyze business problems, develop hypotheses, mine data, deliver recommendations, and assess the business impact of proposed solutions. Business Case Building: Build business cases for new services and products, including financial models, market research, competitive analysis, and go-to-market strategies. Strategy Coordination: Coordinate the implementation of strategy by working closely with all business stakeholders across functions to track performance, resolve issues, and ensure alignment. Industry Analysis: Conduct industry analysis and research with respect to market trends to derive business insights. Performance Analysis: Analyze company performance, build and maintain monitoring dashboards, and prepare BOM reports. Relationship Management: Identify key players through industry research, generate interest, and manage and grow relationships with partners to maximize mutual value. Insight Extraction: Extract deep insights and generate presentable reports. Compliance: Strictly comply with company policies and regulations to maintain a healthy business and pass audits. Board Presentation: Consolidate materials from the Corporate Strategy & Transformation team and other business partners to build well-architected and vetted Board presentations. Communication Alignment: Partner with investor relations and corporate communications to align internal and external communication with strategic priorities. KPI Measurement: Partner with the Corporate Strategy and Transformation team to identify key performance indicators (strategic KPIs) to measure progress toward a long-term vision. KPI Reporting: Consolidate the reporting of strategic KPIs into a single dashboard, partnering with the Corporate Strategy and Transformation team, as well as functional leaders, Advanced Analytics, Finance, and HR teams. 4. Corporate Strategy Manager Job Summary

Work Stream Management: Effectively manage and prioritize multiple work streams through collaboration within the Business Strategy team and across the organization. Complex Model Management: Display proficiency in managing complex models and independently driving storylines that deliver compelling insights and recommendations. Insight Management: Proactively identify and manage the impact of insights on the broader organization, including developing and presenting a strategic point of view, goals, and proposed outcomes. Meeting Facilitation: Effectively facilitate large-scale meetings and workshops, including preparation and driving tangible outcomes. Strategic Deployment: Deploy strategic recommendations, collaborating across teams and setting expectations and metrics for execution. Leadership & Influence: Demonstrate leadership and the ability to influence by initiating partnerships that promote organizational objectives and change. Strategic Summarization: Summarize strategic analysis and decisions into concise memorandums and presentations for the Board of Directors. Insight Research: Perform research and analysis to uncover insights for the company and develop critical strategic recommendations. Risk & Opportunity Identification: Identify potential risks and opportunities for Verizon. Competitive Analysis: Develop perspectives on key industry challenges and potential opportunities through competitive analysis and market research. 5. Corporate Strategy Manager Accountabilities

Portfolio Analysis: Analyze the performance of the company’s business portfolio and identify new opportunities for growth. Strategic Studies: Conduct studies on key issues that will shape Grab’s longer-term strategy. Strategy Alignment: Help align BU strategy with country strategy. Regional Strategy Cascade: Assist in cascading Regional Strategy Management Support: Support the running of Grab’s corporate management process and cadence for Indonesia. Stakeholder Engagement: Engage senior executives and stakeholders of all levels in the development and execution of strategy, including a range of strategic initiatives. Operating Model Assessment: Assess ID-wide or Dept-wide operating models comprehensively to define target blueprints relevant to current and future contexts/dynamics. Transformation Mobilization: Mobilize senior stakeholders to follow the designed transformation journey. Culture Influence: Help influence a high-performance culture by challenging critical business assumptions and encouraging cross-functional collaboration across Grab. Opportunity Collaboration: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to uncover opportunities and develop strategies. Presentation Crafting: Craft compelling and cogent presentations to senior leadership at Verizon to articulate findings and strategies.

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