AVP, Strategy & Operations

About the role

The Strategy & Operations team facilitates strategic and business planning processes, delivers and manages a broad portfolio of strategic projects, provides regional and global transformation management services, ensures operational quality and compliance, and continuously improves operational performance.

Responsibilities

• Assist and facilitate strategic planning processes and the development of strategic plans, business cases, and roadmaps by conducting market research, analyzing industry trends, market dynamics, and customer needs.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and optimize resources across the platform by collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing data, supporting process reviews, benchmarking, and performance analysis to identify areas of cost savings and operational improvements.
• Develop hypothesis-based and data-driven recommendations to address business challenges.
• Manage and deliver projects to support high-impact strategic priorities.
• Drive efficiency, consistency, and speed in operations.
• Develop socialization materials for executive leaders to create value for Blackstone portfolio companies and Revantage.
• Support the portfolio management life cycle from demand management, prioritization, project execution to results management and reporting.
• Establish and manage governance structures and mechanisms to provide oversight and accountability for transformation initiatives.
• Develop change management plans, communicate changes effectively to stakeholders, and support the implementation process to ensure successful execution.
• Benchmark leading practices and trends to enhance the organization's approach and methodologies.
• Support partner lifecycle management, including partner onboarding and offboarding strategy, and operational support and infrastructure to improve partner experience.
• Support the lifecycle of service offerings from initial ideation and value proposition development through launch, delivery, and management of offering catalogs and underlying collateral.
• Manage data collection, verification, and report production for in-place offering performance measurement and monthly management reporting.
• Support centralized management of offshore delivery centers and development of thought leadership, accelerators, and repeatable processes to guide partners in developing their offshoring strategies.
• Provide executive presence, demonstrate discretion and professionalism, manage ambiguity, and propose workable solutions to challenging problems.
• Make decisions using storyboards and analytical frameworks, synthesize findings, and identify key insights from analysis of data and qualitative insights.
• Support project planning and execution of business plans and initiatives by managing timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder communications effectively.
• Collaborate with Revantage leadership to develop and optimize business strategies that align with company vision, goals, and success measures and design operating model transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with the People & Culture team on hiring initiatives, employee engagement initiatives, and communication to continue making Revantage a great place to work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, engineering, finance, or technology.
• Minimum 6 years of demonstrated success and experience in Management/Strategy Consulting, Corporate Strategy or Business Transformation, Corporate Finance or Investment Banking.
• Action-oriented, creative, strategic thinking that identifies and connects opportunities, sees gaps, and finds points of connectivity across the enterprise.
• Courage in challenging thinking and pushing the collective toward better outcomes to improve the health of the business.
• Expert analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Expert verbal and written communication skills developing presentations for a wide variety of audiences.
• Demonstrated history of collaboration, inter-personal, and influencing skills.
• Comfort in working effectively with people at all levels of an organization, including C-suite.
• Passion for enhancing team engagement and value proposition and building an inclusive, equitable, collaborative, and fun work environment.
• Bias for action, ability to deal with ambiguity, and natural perseverance to overcome obstacles and deliver outcomes when leading change.
• Strong team player with ability to multi-task and meet deadlines, while thriving in a fast-paced work environment.
• Outstanding record of professional and academic achievement.
• Expert level proficiency in Microsoft office tools.

Preferred

• Shared Services Organization Management experience.
• Proficiency with Collaboration Tools (e.g., SmartSheet, Teams, SharePoint etc.).
• Proficiency with business intelligence tools.

Pay

$150,000.00 To $170,000.00 Annually.

Schedule

Based on various factors, including but not limited to location and experience.