The Strategy Director will work with business units, Enterprise functions and collaborate towards defining strategy, initiatives, investments, outcomes, economics, and key results.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads definition and decomposition of problem statement into key hypotheses, assertions and key work streams.
• Assembles key participants and facilitates cross-functional teams in the strategy development
• Leads highly complex strategy initiatives typically requiring confidentiality and enterprise-level visibility.
• Assists leadership to facilitate scoping and framing sessions. Works closely with teams and resources to achieve milestones within established timeframes.
• Leads and/or oversees analytic work streams, partnering with key teams to uncover and interpret strategic insights.
• Continuously leverages expert data-driven problem-solving techniques and analytical rigor, to manipulate, interpret, and study competitive intelligence and business data to translate into insights for strategy development.
• Leverage’s data assets, competitive intelligence, consumer/segment intelligence, economic and financial intelligence, and market trends to drive insights, hypotheses validation or refinement, and ultimately the answer to the case.
• Actively manages ambiguity and consistently seeks to drive clarity amongst team, partners and key stakeholders.
• Proactively communicates high quality updates to key stakeholders, to include senior level executive stakeholders.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders and line of business leaders to deliver written and verbal recommendations to senior executives that provide clear guidance on strategy timeline, owners required investments, and expected results.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in a Business, Engineering or Science discipline and 4 more years of strategy experience; Master's Degree in a Business or a related discipline and 2 or more years of experience of strategy consulting experience.
• Proven track record in project execution environment; proven track record influencing business decisions
• Subject Matter Expert with Technical Consulting Skills - Hypothesis-driven problem solving; Primary Market research (e.g. interviews); Secondary Market research (e.g. desk research); Data analysis (e.g. what-if, sensitivity, etc.); Synthesis (e.g. so what?); Pyramid Principle / Story Telling

• Experience in the life insurance and or wealth management space is preferable, but not a must.

• Possess strong analytical and research skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

JOB CONDITIONS AND ENVIRONMENT 

• Hybrid work environment in Portland, OR offering a blend of virtual/work from home and onsite days designed to support flexibility
• Normal office environment/desk assignment
• Extensive use of PC’s, computer terminal, display, keyboard, and mouse
• Minimal Travel (>10%)

This position description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills or working conditions associated with this position. While this description is intended to accurately reflect the position’s activities and requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties as necessary.

M Financial is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.