Corporate Strategy Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead development of high-impact, high-visibility strategic projects from planning through execution, aligning with enterprise strategic objectives and measurable outcomes.
• Structure and drive the programmatic implementation of the annual and multi-year strategic planning programs, ensuring alignment and engagement with stakeholders across the bank.
• Support quarterly strategic initiative progress reporting and production of quarterly dashboards including collection of data and providing qualitative commentary.
• Partner with business line leaders on developing, articulating, and monitoring business/strategic plans, including competitive/market assessment and cataloging capability and enablement needs.
• Track/collect month-to-month metrics related strategic and business plans, in partnership with Data & Analytics, Finance, etc.
• Prepare clear, concise, and impactful formal communications, including management presentations, briefing memos, talking points, etc. that articulate strategic objectives for executive-level audiences.
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders and partners across the company to deliver on strategic initiatives.

Required Skills

• Strong quantitative / data analysis skills.
• Ability to pull out meaning from ambiguous or unstructured data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate clearly and distill key takeaways into clear executive-appropriate documents.
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Able to communicate clearly and distill key takeaways into clear executive-appropriate documents.
• Effective influencing skills. Ability to build rapport and credibility with senior-level business partners and work with various levels of the organization.
• Fully fluent in financial language of banking industry, and well-versed in the needs, priorities, and cross-currents impacting the Regional Bank sector; as well as the specific opportunities and challenges impacting the Middle Market, Business Banking, and Small Business and Consumer Banking businesses.
• Strategic growth mindset and results orientation.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, project management or strategy/finance role within the financial services industry.