Business Strategy Lead

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Why Join Us

• Career Growth: Advance your career with opportunities for leadership and personal development.
• Culture of Excellence: Be part of a supportive team that values your input and encourages innovation.
• Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that looks after both your professional and personal needs.

Total Rewards
Our Total Rewards package underscores our commitment to recognizing your contributions. We offer a competitive and fair compensation structure that includes base pay and performance-based rewards. Compensation is based on skill set, experience, qualifications, and job-related requirements. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, wellness programs, retirement plans, and generous paid leave. Discover more about what we offer by visiting our Benefits page.

A Day In The Life
This is an incredibly exciting time in the automotive industry with immense technological impact and business model innovation. GST is seeking an analytical, curious and results-oriented Business Strategy Lead to participate in the identification and development of key strategic and transformation initiatives across a broad range of business functions. This individual will be an integral part of the Strategic Planning Team and will assist in the execution of strategic planning. Overall the Business Strategy Lead will assist in creating and driving the strategic agenda, including partnering with and influencing senior leaders on growth, productivity, and innovation projects. The ideal candidates for this role should be comfortable with ambiguity and change, possess exceptional research and analytical skills, and be an excellent written and verbal communicator. This role has high visibility to the GST leadership team and across The Friedkin Group.

As a Business Strategy Lead you will:

• Assist in the strategic planning process for the company and alignment of top leadership on business strategy, performance objectives and key initiatives
• Research and analyze relevant data to understand the automotive market and competitive landscape to generate insights which drive strategy and business actions
• Review financial, operational and sales performance reports, industry data, and research on a periodic basis; prepare reports, trend analysis and exec summaries (PowerPoint)
• Assist in the development of comprehensive business cases to address opportunities and challenges; collaborate with and influence senior leaders and key stakeholders to mobilize and execute
• Support execution of strategic initiatives which includes analyzing problems and identifying opportunities for creative and innovative solutions
• Assist in planning and facilitation of strategy and initiative discussions with top leadership
• Build strong relationships with internal partners to drive the strategic planning agenda
• Act as a point of contact between senior leadership, associates, and key strategic partners while balancing competing priorities

What We Need From You

• Bachelor's Degree in business, economics, engineering, mathematics, statistics or related field Req
• 2 - 5 years in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, venture capital, private equity or equivalent combination of education and/or experience Required
• Automotive industry or retail/consumer experience advantageous Preferred
• Previous experience building financial models and strong financial acumen Preferred
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and communicate finding clearly. Required
• Experience delivering and executing in complex and changing business landscapes Preferred
• Excellent project management skills.
• Curiosity Curiosity is a quality related to thinking that causes one to explore, investigate and learn by observation. Awareness-Developing Required
• Data Visualization Data visualization involves producing images that succinctly communicate information and relationships present in a given dataset. Awareness-Developing Required
• Quantitative Analysis Awareness-Developing Required
• Organizational Strategy Awareness-Developing Required
• Executive Presence Awareness-Developing Required
• Economics Economics is concerned with the creation of incentives and policies that will maximize efficiency. It is the study of how businesses, governments and individuals make choices about how to allocate resources for production, distribution, and consumption. Awareness-Developing Required
• Relationship Building Awareness-Developing Required
• Forecasting Awareness-Developing Required
• Financial Modeling Awareness-Developing Required
• Market Research Awareness-Developing Required

Physical and Environmental RequirementsThe physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. While performing the duties of the job, the associate is required on a daily basis to analyze and interpret data, communicate, and remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the work day and frequently access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. The associate is regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus. The associate must frequently move up to 10 pounds and occasionally move up to 25 pounds.

Travel Requirements
20% Minimal travel is required for this position (up to 20% of the time and on a domestic basis).

Join Us
The Friedkin Group and its affiliates are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at TalentAcquisition@friedkin.com. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all associates.

We are seeking candidates legally authorized to work in the United States, without Sponsorship.

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