Business Strategy Advisor, Transformation Enablement

Job Profile Summary

The Business Strategy Advisor plays a critical role in developing and executing transformation enablement strategies for the FedEx Data & Technology (D&T) organization. This role supports strategy articulation, embeds change practices, and mobilizes leaders to execute within a complex, enterprise-level digital transformation.

Essential Functions

• Plans, organizes, and develops analyses / assessments 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 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, operations, 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/directors in partner teams.
• Interfaces with areas across the enterprise to discuss changes impacted by strategic recommendations.

Additional Essential Functions

• Drive Transformational Change: Lead forward-thinking change management strategies that drive cultural alignment, positive mindset shifts, and enthusiastic stakeholder adoption in support of long-term organizational transformation.
• Enable Change Governance: Support governance decision-making around change priorities, manage alignment across forums, and translate leadership decisions into operationalized change narratives.
• Track & Measure Adoption: Define and operationalize change adoption metrics, leader engagement dashboards, and transformation outcome tracking to provide leadership visibility into change effectiveness and course corrections.
• Shape the Narrative: Support change management methodologies to identify key strategic issues, using data sources to build a cohesive transformation narrative and a clear vision statement for Digital Transformation.
• Advise & Influence Strategy: Evaluate strategic objectives, formulate direction, and influence decision-making based on business trends, data analytics, and strategic frameworks.
• Culture Mobilization: Understand our enterprise culture values and map our digital transformation change journey to a more detailed and targeted change and culture plan supporting all levels of Data & Technology.
• Drive Leadership and Manager Alignment: Conduct leadership action planning to turn our leaders into change agents, who understand and communicate the need for change.

Preferred Skills

• Leadership Alignment: Must display remarkable ease championing leadership conversations and forums, helping to align leaders on a shared vision critical to strategic execution and measurable outcomes.
• Vision Translation: Experience working closely with leadership to translate their vision into effective strategic narratives, particularly the emotional case for change that turns understanding into belief and belief into action.
• Program Management: Provide operational program management for change implementation, sequencing culture activities, and managing dependencies across workstreams.
• Navigating Ambiguity: Demonstrated ability to successfully lead teams or projects through high ambiguity, driving a framework for delegation and accountability within a multi-year Digital Transformation.
• Inspiring Communication: Strong communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to develop clear, memorable, and inspiring vision statements aligned to the transformation intent.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to build relationships across the core pillars of Digital Transformation.
• Business Acumen: Deep understanding of the impact of technology trends, such as AI enablement at scale and technology modernization.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study.
• Five (5) years related work experience focused on Change Management and Communications, specifically enablement in strategy development, planning, and support of a technology organization.
• Six (6) years related work experience.
• Experience of supporting strategic assessments that are transformational in nature.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• 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.

Pay

Nationwide Pay Transparency Ranges USA: $7,094.23/mo - $15,607.31/mo, CO: $7,094.23/mo - $14,957.01/mo, CA: $7,488.36/mo - $12,533.14/mo, NJ: $7,488.36/mo - $11,981.37/mo, OH & VT: $7,488.36/mo - $12,355.79/mo, MN: $7,488.36/mo - $14,306.70/mo, IL & NV: $7,488.36/mo - $14,957.01/mo, MD, NY & WA: $7,488.36/mo - $15,607.31/mo, MA: $7,882.48/mo - $15,607.31/mo, RI: $8,670.73/mo - $14,306.70/mo, CT: $8,670.73/mo - $14,957.01/mo, DC & HI: $9,064.85/mo - $14,957.01/mo, NYC: $9,064.85/mo - $15,607.31/mo