Strategic Intelligence Consultant Jobs

At EMC, you'll put your skills to good use as an important member of our team. You can count on gaining valuable experience while contributing to the company's success. EMC strives to hire and retain the best people by engaging, developing and rewarding employees.

This position is a hybrid role that can be performed by candidates who reside in: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota or Wisconsin

Essential Functions

• Gathers business intelligence from a variety of sources including company data, industry and field reports, public information, and/or purchased sources
• Builds intelligence materials for key business planning and business strategy meetings
• Effectively and transparently presents analysis to key stakeholders, working groups, and senior leaders
• Maintains and develops a strong understanding of external competitive developments and their impact on the business and strategy
• Creates dashboards and reports to present data insights in a clear and concise manner
• Serves as a champion of the organization’s strategic priorities to internal constituents through formal and informal communications
• Reviews competitor filings, earnings calls, blogs, and insurance-related publications to monitor the market. Prepares communications and distributes relevant actions taken by competitors to appropriate parties
• Analyzes impact of external and internal factors affecting progress toward organizational goals, including financial information of competitors, comparisons of competitor operating models to EMC, and customer feedback on competitive differentiators
• Prepares competitive intelligence materials to be presented to stakeholders and senior leaders, drawing out most important insights through data analysis
• Translates complex data insights across customer, financial, market, and business trends to make meaningful business recommendations
• Performs assigned strategic and ad hoc analysis on the industry, markets, peers, etc. to support management as well as strategic planning and execution
• Researches the overall market and various competitors to analyze and draw conclusions on where the business should go to take advantage of available opportunities or avoid oncoming threats

Education & Experience

• Prior strategy consultant experience preferred
• Seven years of experience in business strategy planning, business analysis, project management, or related experience
• Prior business intelligence or competitive intelligence experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in business, management, finance, or marketing, or equivalent relevant experience
• Prior financial services industry experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to interpret information from a variety of sources, such as trade journals, research reports, white papers, and cross-tabulated survey data
• Strong quantitative, critical thinking and, problem solving skills
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Excellent knowledge of business and data analysis and the applicable tools/deliverables
• Strong knowledge of key business and financial drivers, including key economic and industry trends that could impact the organization
• Strong meeting facilitation skills using best practices
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong organizational/prioritization skills
• Ability to influence decisions makers across the enterprise including senior leaders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (including presentations) as well as listening and interpretation skills
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing business priorities
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, Index/Match, Power Query, etc.)
• Advanced Power BI, Tableau, SQL skills (proven track record to independently query data from disparate sources),
• Ability to deal with conflict, and propose solutions for resolution

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