- Take a leadership role in building Western Union's corporate strategy and driving our strategic planning processes.
- Identify opportunities in existing businesses and/or assess new business opportunities, to drive top and bottom-line improvements.
- Assess market, consumer, and competitive research and analyses (working with research teams) to create a foundation of insights to inform strategies.
- Build strategic rationale to justify and socialize new opportunities.
- Create clear, structured strategic recommendations, communicated through concise storytelling that can be presented to C-level company executives.
- Project manage key strategic initiatives including the roll out of new products and service offerings through the development of work plans that define cross-functional team roles and responsibilities and timelines to execute. Additionally, this role will need to own the strategic assessment, project initiation, design, planning, and monitoring of workstreams / efforts across teams.
- Develop metric-driven business cases to quantify the investment and potential opportunity of new strategic initiatives and service offerings.
- Manage relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute strategic initiatives and service offerings.
- Be a thought leader and engage, influence, and become a partner to our senior executives across business lines and regions.
- Bachelor's in business administration or related field is required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred, although candidates with other relevant experience will be considered.
- 8+ years of experience in strategic planning or related field – must have demonstrated a pattern of success in accelerating existing business or product strategies and driving new business or product strategies.
- 4-5 years' experience, or equivalent with leadership experience.
- Advanced level Excel and PowerPoint.
- Financial Services industry experience preferred.
- Strategy consulting experience a strong plus.
- Product management experience is also a strong plus.
- Curious and creative individual able to understand the complexities of the company's products and markets quickly.
- The ability to observe and make relevant inferences from customer and market data.
- Experienced in reading customer research output and effectively use the information to be translating into a clear understanding of customers' needs to drive company strategy.
- Assess the reliability of findings, maintaining high standards for accuracy, relevance, and quality in deliverables at all times.
- Highly effective in synthesizing disparate data sources and pieces of information to build strategic plans.
- Experience with analytical and financial modeling skills.
- Demonstrate experience in managing interactions and collaborating with senior business partners.
- Recognized for results-oriented and a proven track record of managing projects from conception to rollout.
- 25 days annual leave – plus 14 public holidays
- Comprehensive life & medical cover – including dependents.
- Contributory pension plan
- Preventative Care Assistance program
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Group Leader - Madrid, España - Western Union
Descripción
Group Leader (Director), Strategic Planning - Madrid, Spain
Are you looking for an opportunity to have a significant impact on key corporate strategies that will drive growth across a large global organization? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Join Western Union as Group Leader, Strategic Planning in Madrid.
Western Union powers your pursuit.
This pivotal role will focus on driving enterprise strategy, executing strategic initiatives and creating new products and service offerings to drive our consumer businesses' growth. The ideal candidate has a history of being a solid strategic thinker, a track record of delivering within aggressive timelines, and demonstrated experience in working with, and influencing, cross-functional teams to deliver strategic recommendations.
Role Responsibilities
Role Requirements
Benefits
You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few (). Please see the location-specific benefits below and note that your Recruiter may share additional role-specific benefits during your interview process or in an offer of employment.
Your Spain specific benefits include:
Western Union values in-person collaboration, learning, and ideation whenever possible. We believe this creates value through common ways of working and supports the execution of enterprise objectives which will ultimately help us achieve our strategic goals. By connecting face-to-face, we are better able to learn from our peers, problem-solve together, and innovate.
Our Hybrid Work Model categorizes each role into one of three categories. Western Union has determined the category of this role to be Hybrid. This is defined as a flexible working arrangement that enables employees to divide their time between working from home and working from an office location. The expectation is to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.