Director – Corporate Strategy
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Director of Corporate Strategy leading strategic projects and initiatives for FICO's Software and Scores businesses. Focusing on significant shareholder value creation and corporate development strategies.
Responsibilities:
- Identify opportunities for significant shareholder value creation and recommend practical approaches to realize those opportunities
- Lead strategic projects and initiatives for Software, Scores and FICO corporate across a broad range of areas such as new business opportunities, growth, pricing, cost reduction/efficiency, and organizational restructuring
- Lead, or contribute to, corporate development projects, including acquisitions, divestitures and partnerships. This can include deal strategic assessment, negotiations, post transaction planning and full post-merger integration
- Create broad organizational alignment on key strategic projects and initiatives by leading cross-functional teams of managers and leaders
- Present recommendations to key stakeholders, including senior leaders across the business, to foster broad, consistent understanding, and strategic alignment
Requirements:
- Experience in a leading strategic consulting firm, preferably at the engagement manager / project leader level
- Proven strategic thinker with experience working on strategy projects, including but not limited to growth, go-to-market, product, and innovation strategy
- Understanding of, and experience working on projects in the financial services (lending, retail banking, payments), information services, and/or software sectors
- Proven mastery over the “strategy skillset” including: conceptual problem solving and comfort with ambiguity; economic and financial modeling and analyses; gathering and analysis of competitor and market demand data, leveraging both internal and external sources; working in and leading complex, cross-functional project teams and structuring, developing, and communicating executive-ready materials with top-down messaging and insightful recommendations on opportunities, capabilities, risks, and ROI
- Distinctive ownership over outcomes, proactively anticipating what comes next, driving work to completion without being directed, and holding themselves accountable to business impact rather than just workstream delivery
- Entrepreneurial mindset, not just executing assigned projects, but identifying white space, generating hypotheses about where value can be created, and independently structuring and proposing new workstreams around those ideas
- Influencing and aligning stakeholders across the business by building credibility quickly, navigating competing priorities, and bringing the right people to a shared point of view in a way that drives decisions and moves initiatives forward
- Commitment to developing others by actively investing time in the growth of more junior colleagues across the strategy team through feedback and hands on coaching
- BS degree preferred in business administration, marketing, economics, or an analysis-based discipline. Emphasis on data analysis, statistics, business systems or software engineering a plus.
Benefits:
- Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs
- Engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance
- Employee resource groups
- Social events to promote interaction and camaraderie
- Opportunities for professional development by leveraging unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences
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