Business Operations, Senior Associate

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Helps to drive the strategic department vision, operating model, budget and planning activities, and outcomes for the department. May serve as a trusted, strategic advisor to a department head and leaders within the department or function.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Operational Planning

• Maintains department calendar and project plans.
• Develop status and reporting methodology.
• Support strategic and operational planning, including the department quarterly business review (QBR), and department Strategy Prioritization process.
• Refine and manage metrics, tools/reports and processes to gauge progress on department priorities.

Program Management

• Task management for special projects.
• Proactively partners with department or division leaders and project members to integrate plans and ensure delivery.

Budget Coordination

• Develop and maintain monthly and ad hoc department budget reporting and coordination in order to identify trends and opportunities.

Project and Governance Support

• Agenda management and content support for key department meetings
• Catalyst to the development and evolution of governance and program management framework.
• Support projects with meeting prep, deliverables, program design and large-scale events

Qualifications

• Proven track record to grasp complexities, perceive relationships among problems/issues and rapidly acquire new business understanding and skills.
• Outstanding detail orientation and project management skills with an ability to work both independently and collaboratively to get results.
• Excellent communication skills to include experience in explaining, advising, and consulting to a wide variety of audiences with varying levels of understanding.
• Proven problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong eye for business and mature professional judgement.
• Bachelor's degree in business, economics or related field. MBA or advanced degree in related specialization area preferred.
• Experience working on and/or leading business and culture transformation projects.
• Ability to independently set priorities, carry out multiple and diverse assignments within time deadlines and handle ambiguity.
• Experience working in strategy or consulting or an internal strategy focused role
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in consulting, project management, or related experience.

Compensation Range
Pay Range - Start:
$84,560.00
Pay Range - End
$120,800.00
Please note that this is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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