Sr Business Strategist

Description

• Provides leadership in the evaluation of strategic objectives, formulation of strategic direction, and supports decision making based on assessment of business trends and data analytics.
• Plans, organizes, and develops analyses/assessments grounded in deep understanding of the business, industry & market trends, consumer behavior, customer segments, and competitive strategy.
• Predicts changes in the current market and summarizes insights from proprietary and third-party data & information to create distinctive insights.
• Develops and implements business analyses, manages business case development, and business-at-risk assessments.
• Develops strategic frameworks and manages processes to build business scenarios.
• Provides a point of view on key strategic issues across major dimensions of the business – competitive activity, customer segments, technology, etc.
• Manages ongoing discussions with peer partners in other internal work groups including peers in international regions on identified priorities supported with clear fact based recommendations.
• Participates in cross-functional meetings and provides insight/guidance to peers/managers in partner teams.
• Interfaces with areas across the enterprise to discuss changes impacted by strategic recommendations.

Master’s degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study plus 3 years of related work experience. As an equivalent alternative, the employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study plus 5 years of related work experience.

Requirements

The position requires experience with:

• Developing frameworks and dashboards to align technology and business investments with enterprise strategic and financial goals (i.e., Resource and Costing frameworks).  
• Proficient in turning complex datasets into actionable insights using tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, and Databricks (i.e., to inform resource allocation and process optimization).
• Skilled in assessing operational workflows and designing scalable processes that improve efficiency, visibility, and cross-functional accountability across large organizations.
• Adept at partnering with finance, engineering, and product leaders to translate strategic objectives into change management and driving adoption of new systems or tools. 
• Leading large-scale platform rollouts and integrations across analytics and business environments, ensuring system functionality aligns with user and organizational needs for portfolio management systems.  
• Strong capability in building automated reporting pipelines, resource management dashboards, and executive-level visibility tools that enable proactive business and financial decision (with Portfolio Management and Resource Management tools as primary data sources). 
• Work experience in functions focused on strategy development, competitive, customer, and industry analysis, market research, analysis of product performance, and support of corporate development/strategic value assessment activities. 
• Demonstrated business acumen and experience of supporting strategic assessments that are transformational in nature including understanding the impact of technology trends on business.  
• Strong communication and presentation skills, problem structuring & problem solving skills. 
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including experience in databases, business intelligence (BI) tools, MS Office products and data modeling.  
• Strong human relations skills. 
• Directly related advanced degrees may offset the experience requirements.
• Position requires domestic travel approximately 25% of the time to Memphis, TN for team meetings, team planning sessions, or project working sessions.  
• This position is eligible for telecommuting and may be located anywhere within the United States excluding Alaska, Hawaii and U.S. territories. 

EEO Statement

Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability. 

Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact recruitmentsupport@fedex.com.

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