Role Description
The Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d) is a senior individual contributor within the Strategy Realization Office (SRO) who combines business strategy, commercial judgment, operating model design, and technology-enabled innovation to help GDC leaders translate complex business challenges into clear decisions, executable change, and measurable outcomes.
As a business-led transformation practitioner, the role focuses on turning strategic intent and emerging technology opportunities into practical, scalable capabilities that create tangible business value.
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Working across commercial, portfolio, product, go-to-market, organizational, operating model, and transformation initiatives.
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Applies structured problem solving, evidence-based analysis, stakeholder influence, and hands-on execution.
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Partners with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities, improve decision quality, challenge ineffective processes, and accelerate organizational performance.
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Independently structures ambiguous business problems and builds alignment across diverse stakeholders.
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Contributes to the continuous evolution of the SRO by improving methodologies and developing reusable capabilities.
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This is a hands-on strategic execution role, requiring a balance of strategic thinking, practical experimentation, and disciplined execution.
Qualifications
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MBA, Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.
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Substantial experience in strategy execution, business transformation, operating-model change, M&A/integration, internal consulting, product/commercial transformation, or a comparable environment.
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Evidence of independently structuring ambiguous business problems and producing decision-ready recommendations for senior stakeholders.
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Experience operating across multiple functions, stakeholder groups, or geographies in a complex organization.
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Strong written communication and ability to produce concise executive-quality outputs.
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Strong structured problem-solving and ability to create clarity from ambiguity.
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Commercial and strategic judgement, including confidence with value, cost, risk, and trade-offs.
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Operating model, organizational design, or business architecture thinking.
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Senior stakeholder engagement, influencing, and relationship management.
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Technology curiosity and willingness to experiment with AI-enabled and digital ways of working.
Requirements
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Lead or own defined pieces of complex, cross-functional work from initial ambiguity through structured assessment and recommendation.
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Translate competing views, incomplete evidence, and broad strategic intent into clear problem statements, decision questions, value hypotheses, and practical scopes.
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Build neutral, fact-based assessments that integrate commercial, operational, organizational, and technology considerations.
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Develop executive-ready options, trade-offs, recommendations, decision criteria, and briefing materials that help leaders make high-quality decisions.
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Apply commercial and strategic judgement to portfolio, product, go-to-market, operating-model, and wider business questions.
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Shape current state and future-state operating models across people, process, governance, data, technology, roles, and decision rights.
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Convert recommendations into practical mobilization plans with sequencing, ownership, dependencies, governance, measures, and handover requirements.
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Build trusted relationships across functions and geographies, including senior and executive stakeholders.
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Apply and improve the SRO, contributing practical methods, playbooks, templates, case studies, and reusable assets.
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Use AI, data, workflow, and collaboration technologies to improve research, synthesis, analysis, communication, and delivery quality.
Benefits
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Base salary for this position is: $127,300 - $181,300.
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All regular full-time employees are eligible for an annual bonus; payout is dependent upon individual and company performance.
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Employees receive paid time-off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, life and supplemental insurance, short-term and long-term disability, flexible spending account, and 401k retirement plan.
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This is a remote position that requires a reliable internet connection and electricity.
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A monthly stipend is provided to cover expenses associated with working remotely and use of a personal mobile device, if applicable.