Director, Strategy

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Southfield, MItime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 30+ Days Agojob requisition :
R21585
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* Position Summary:

** The Strategy Director has a critical role in developing and implementing the company’s growth strategy. This role focuses on developing the critical market and competitive analyses needed as the foundation for strategic planning, growth and business development initiatives.  The Strategy Director will work with business unit leaders to develop global market insights, competitive and technology trends to support critical decisions on business growth priorities.  

Working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment, they have an active role preparing and supporting the highest impact decisions on the direction of the company, ensuring that the senior leadership team has a consistent, reliable basis of facts and analyses to guide their discussions.
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* Position Responsibilities:

**** Strategy Development
*** Collaborate with Leadership in developing, communicating and refining business strategy frameworks together with business unit line managers across the Methode global portfolio.
* Collaborate with and support business unit leaders in their development of near-term tactics, competitive strategies, product and technology roadmaps and longer-term transformation plans, aligned with the company's overall strategic objectives.
** Market and Competitive Analysis
*** Take primary responsibility for identifying and developing a portfolio of quantitative market and competitive information sources, aligned with the most important products, technologies and geographies to company performance.
* Leverage a broad portfolio of syndicated, open source and unstructured data sources to become the company authority on overall market sizing, segmentation, forecasted development and change drivers.
* Lead the utilization of advanced data mining and statistical refinement tools and techniques to triangulate, compare, and otherwise improve the reliability and resolution of quantitative competitive data across diverse industry segments and markets.
* Collaborate with business unit commercial and product strategy leaders to refine the relevance and accuracy of market and competitive outlook information.
** Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement
*** Play a leading role in raising the quality, depth, reliability and consistency of quantitative market and competitive information used globally, across the entire Methode business portfolio.
* Work closely with stakeholders across business units to build understanding, engagement and global collaboration in developing, implementing and continuously improving top-down and bottom-up business planning activities
* Design and implement performance dashboards, tracking actual business performance against product, market and customer development targets
* Develop proactive trend and anomaly detection analyses, to accelerate the cycle of issue identification through analysis, response planning and resolution together with relevant business unit and functional leaders
* Build excitement and momentum for quarterly business strategy sessions, by ensuring that the process improves clarity, delivers insights and accelerates decision-making on the topics most critical to the company’s overall success.
** Transaction Support
*** Develop ad-hoc analyses to support business unit performance improvement activities, e.g., quantitative support for pricing negotiations where supply and demand conditions deviate from planned program assumptions
* As needed, provide analytical and logistical support for M&A initiatives, contributing to due diligence, data gathering, and project management.
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* Qualifications:

*** Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Data Science or other quantitative discipline.  MBA or MS Business Analytics helpful.
* Minimum of five years of relevant work experience, ideally in strategy, consulting or equity research.
* A passion for global business strategy and competitive analysis above and beyond explicitly required competencies
* Demonstrated analytical abilities applied to business challenges,…