- Work with Strategy team leadership to identify improvement opportunities in existing businesses or assess new business opportunities.
- Support Strategy team leadership in assessing and driving improvements in current business strategies, go-to-market approaches and operational tactics.
- Assess market, consumer, and competitive research and analyses (working with research teams) to create a foundation of insights to define the go-to-market strategy for new service offerings.
- Work with Strategy team leadership to develop metric-driven business cases to quantify the investment and potential opportunity of new strategic initiatives and service offerings.
- Build strategic rationale to justify and socialize new opportunities. Define product requirements and work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to bring products to market.
- Champion lean and agile process to promote and instill validated build-test-learn development. Develop, test and define customer requirements for the technology build team and continue to build into product post-launch.
- Manage multiple projects and tasks, leveraging a broad range of skills and capabilities.
- Seek feedback from our customer base for the purpose of influencing the features and functionality of our products.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in strategic planning, product development, management consulting or similar analyst roles, although candidates with other relevant experience will be considered.
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative function (e.g. Business, Economics, or Math). An MBA is highly preferred.
- An understanding of data, metrics, and a commitment to data-driven decision-making.
- Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Experience within a strategy consulting or financial Services industry experience a plus.
- Have a curious and creative individual able to understand the complexities of the company's products and markets quickly.
- Highly effective in synthesizing and analyzing disparate data sources and pieces of information.
- The ability to analyze disparate and complex sets of data and information.
- The skills to assess the reliability of findings, maintaining high standards for accuracy, relevance, and quality in deliverables/
- Highly effective in synthesizing disparate data sources and pieces of information
- Experience with analytical and financial modeling.
- 25 days annual leave – plus 14 public holidays
- Comprehensive life & medical cover – including dependents.
- Contributory pension plan
- Preventative Care Assistance program
Analyst, Strategic Planning - Madrid, España - Western Union
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Analyst, Strategic Planning - Madrid, Spain
Are you looking for an opportunity to support the identification and execution of strategic initiatives to drive our consumer businesses' growth? Are you able to analyze complex data and translate to key leaders? If you're ready to unleash your potential to help drive change through bottom-up product innovation, join Western Union as Analyst, Strategic Planning in Madrid.
Western Union powers your pursuit.
In this pivotal role, you will work with the Strategy team leadership to identify improvement opportunities in existing businesses or assess new business opportunities. The person in this role will be responsible for supporting overall Omni-channel and Receiver product strategy and development by identifying and executing on product opportunities to allow our 50M+ receivers to track transfers, find locations, request money transfers, redirect payments to accounts, wallets, cash, and more.
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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.