Business Strategy Principal - Same Day Local General Manager

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a Business Strategy Principal to oversee the business performance of the Same Day Local Product. This role involves growing and scaling the product offering while partnering with various teams to develop strategic insights and recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall business performance of the Same Day Local Product
• Will grow and scale this newly launch offering, designing, and executing revenue growth opportunities
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Pricing, Legal and Sales teams to continue to evolve and scale the offering
• Manage external relationships and 3rd party partnerships
• Plans, organizes, and develops recommendations grounded in deep understanding of the business, industry and market trends, consumer behavior, customer segments, and competitive strategy
• Predicts changes in the current market and summarizes insights from proprietary and third-party data and information to create distinctive insights
• Develops and implements complex business analyses, manages business case development, and business-at-risk assessments
• Develops research methodologies to understand key strategic issues, identifies data sources (internal and external) and develops complex opportunity models using statistical and business intelligence (BI) tools
• Develops strategic frameworks and manages processes to build business scenarios using strategic thinking and decision science analysis
• Provides a point of view on key strategic issues across major dimensions of the business – commercial, operations, customer segments, technology, etc
• Engages with leadership teams/key stakeholders on identified priorities supported with clear fact-based recommendations and provides actionable insights to leadership teams to recommend course of action
• Provides thought leadership to cross-functional teams working on strategic initiatives and acts as an internal consultant to senior management
• Takes responsibilities to manage external consulting engagements with industry experts and takes on coaching and mentoring roles
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study
• Seven (7) years related work experience
• 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
• Experience of supporting strategic assessments that are transformational in nature
• Demonstrated business acumen including understanding the impact of technology trends on business
• Strong communication and presentation skills, problem structuring, and 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
• Experience working cross functionally in highly complex environments
• Director equivalent role at previous employer
• Proven operator and 'scaler' at high growth company / environment