Vice President, Business Strategy

Overview

To lead and connect the enterprise, business, and member strategy to develop and ensure alignment on shared goals and objectives to drive results. To serve as an integral partner in defining and shaping the business's member service model. Serve as the horizontal connection point between the business unit and enterprise to drive awareness and transparency for product, channel, and segment initiatives. Serve as a strategic thought leader and demonstrate ability to constructively challenge the status quo to drive innovation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior leaders to translate and execute on corporate strategies, leading the development and deployment of business unit strategies and goals, ensuring alignment across the department and driving transparency
• Serve as an interface across the business unit to deploy strategies and ideas via a center-led strategy
• Leverage data-led thought leadership to identify strategic opportunities, assess capability gaps, and define portfolio priorities and guardrails
• Drive coordination of key priorities, inputs and data to synthesize feedback and deliver insights to support business priorities and goals
• Define and monitor KPIs and metrics to assess progress, drive innovation, and ensure accountability across strategic initiatives
• Responsible for providing a holistic view of the member experience, identifying needs, challenges, and satisfaction drivers to inform strategy and enhance outcomes. Champion efforts to simplify and enhance member experience
• Foster integrated ways of working across the business, driving transparency vertically and horizontally, raising ideas and opportunities to appropriate levels for socialization and approval, and facilitating collaborative decision-making
• Champion a holistic integration of strategies approach between business units to drive alignment and achievement of short and long-term objectives
• Lead complex horizontal workstreams to drive the execution of business unit strategies
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience

• Expert knowledge of product and/or channel operational and systems

• Extensive experience in data-driven portfolio prioritization and vision to optimize services, offerings and experience

• Extensive experience with financial products and services

• Extensive experience in enhancing the member experience through journey mapping

• Significant experience in implementing strategic initiatives to support organizational objectives

• Extensive experience in managing cross-functional, multi-dimensional teams and projects of the highest complexity which have significant business risk and impact

• Extensive experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors diplomatically and tactfully

• Expert skill consulting, influencing and building consensus with business partners

• Expert skill in planning and coordinating changes, including understanding cross system dependencies and impacts

• Expert skill presenting findings, conclusions, alternatives, and information clearly and concisely with the ability to create, story-tell and present to a variety of audiences at all levels

• Expert skill identifying and analyzing business requirements and recommending solutions

• Expert analytical thinking skills to include summarizing information and clearly identifying key elements, patterns, results, or relationships

• Extensive influential leadership experience in a matrix environment

• Expert skill in producing desired results and achieving goals and objectives

• Expert communication (written and verbal), collaboration, and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated expertise in business acumen

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM (Hybrid)
Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5510 Heritage Oaks Dr. Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602

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