Strategy Lead

Job Summary

The Strategy Lead is responsible for leading critical processes across the strategy lifecycle including strategy development, strategic planning, and trend monitoring.

In this role you will collaborate with leaders such as the Chief Financial Officer and the President & CEO to shape the long-term enterprise strategy. You will also work closely with business segment leadership teams to define and advance the strategies and plans critical to their goals.

As part of the strategy function, you will gain approval on strategy process recommendations with the Head of Strategy. In addition, you will collaborate with other teams at Westfield such as business intelligence, financial planning, information technology, marketing, and product management.

Job Responsibilities

• Handles the responsibility for the entire process development cycle, including design, execution, and continuous improvement of critical processes to support effective strategy workflows.
• Conducts industry trend research, market and competitive analysis, development of new growth opportunities, quantitative analyzes and evaluation of value propositions and competitive advantages to provide recommendations that inform strategic choices.
• Leads critical workflows for reviewing and updating the enterprise strategy and competitive business strategies of the insurance businesses.
• Monitors, evaluates, and analyzes external trends and integrates into strategy development, strategic planning, and competitive business strategy reviews.
• Builds and maintains critical processes to support effective strategic planning post strategy development to ensure successful implementation.
• Performs inorganic strategy activities including target identification, deal evaluation, deal execution and post-merger integration.
• Obtains approval of process recommendations with the Head of Strategy and effectively communicates established processes to appropriate business leaders.
• Collaborates with relevant executives to enable the Strategy Committee to assess the execution of competitive business strategies for each insurance business and the performance of non-insurance business.
• Effectively guides and instructs business leaders throughout the strategy lifecycle efforts by ensuring understanding of critical processes.
  
  

Job Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in a strategy consulting organization or on an internal strategy team is required.
• 1 years of experience with strategy development projects (e.g., competitive analysis, market sizing, growth hypotheses exploration, enterprise mission and vision review, and portfolio strategy).
• Bachelor’s degree required.
  
  

Location

• Hybrid- defined as working three or more days per week in the office if the employee's residence is within 50 miles of Westfield Center, OH; OR Remote-if the employee resides more than 50 miles from Westfield Center, OH.
  
  

Behavioral Competencies

• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Nimble Learning
• Builds Effective Teams
• Business Insight
• Develops Talent
• Directs Work
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
  
  

Technical Skills

• Business Strategy
• Insurance Operations
• Process Implementation
• Project Execution
• Capability Assessment
• Business Analysis
• Workflow Management
• Reporting
• Data Analysis
  
  

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

About Us

Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products. Westfield underwrites commercial, personal, surety, and specialty lines of coverage through a network of leading independent agents and brokers in the United States and specialty products through Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 1200. As a mutual insurance company with more than 3,000 employees, Westfield has revenues in excess of $4 billion and more than $10 billion in assets.

Equal Opportunity Employer

United States: All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

United Kingdom: Westfield is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.