Business Strategy Principal- AI Enablement & Portfolio Execution

This position is eligible for remote work and may be located anywhere within the United States excluding AK, HI and U.S. territories. If you live within 50 miles of a FedEx campus, you will be required to work on-site several times per week.

About the Role

Provides leadership in the evaluation of strategic objectives, formulation of strategic direction, and influences decision-making based on assessment of business trends and data analytics.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 and key stakeholders on identified priorities supported with clear, fact-based recommendations, and provides actionable insights to recommend courses of action.
• Provides thought leadership to cross-functional teams working on strategic initiatives and acts as an internal consultant to senior management.
• Manages external consulting engagements with industry experts and takes on coaching and mentoring roles.
• Leads AI enablement as a practice within portfolio operations, identifying high-value use cases, standing up agent-based capabilities, and partnering with Enterprise.
• Embeds AI insights into teams and workflows to improve decision quality and speed.
• Designs and deploys autonomous AI agents, turning manual marketing processes into automated agentic workflows.
• Connects APIs, event triggers, and approval loops between AI tools and enterprise systems (CRM, CMS, or ERP).
• Provides updates to stakeholders, escalates risks and issues, tracks and communicates the status of initiatives through the demand lifecycle, and monitors timing of release milestones.
• Facilitates workshops, meetings, and ceremonies to remove barriers, improve collaboration, mitigate risk, and ensure free flow of information between stakeholders.
• Leads the evolution of the Commercial Portfolio product development operating model through business agility constructs aligned to the Scaled Agile Framework.
• Partners with Demand Requestors, Initiative Owners, Enterprise Strategic Program Managers, Portfolio leads, Architecture teams, and Leadership to enable value-based decision-making and ensure alignment and prioritization of demand.
• Drives consistent use of operating model standards and tooling to ensure solid execution and accelerated value delivery.
• Leads tools, dashboards, and reporting to provide status visibility and drive positive outcomes.
• Collaborates with enterprise tooling and data analytics teams to integrate into corporate systems, leverage common data sources, and ensure data quality.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study.
• Seven (7) years of related 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 supporting strategic assessments that are transformational in nature.
• More advanced degrees may offset experience requirements (a related Master’s Degree equals two years of experience).

Skills

• 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.
• Ability to think strategically and influence business decisions using appropriate, fact-based information synthesized from structured and unstructured data.

Pay

The compensation range for this position varies by location as follows:

• USA (General): $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo
• Colorado: $8,007.29/mo - $17,393.61/mo
• California: $8,452.14/mo - $14,413.11/mo
• New Jersey: $8,452.14/mo - $13,523.42/mo
• Maine, Ohio, Vermont: $8,452.14/mo - $15,124.88/mo
• Minnesota: $8,452.14/mo - $16,637.36/mo
• Illinois, Nevada: $8,452.14/mo - $17,393.61/mo
• Maryland, New York, Virginia, Washington: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo
• Massachusetts: $8,896.99/mo - $18,149.85/mo
• Rhode Island: $9,786.68/mo - $16,637.36/mo
• Connecticut: $9,786.68/mo - $17,393.61/mo
• District of Columbia, Hawaii: $10,231.53/mo - $17,393.61/mo
• New York City: $10,231.53/mo - $18,149.85/mo