Corporate Strategy Manager
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Jun 6, 2019
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- Category
- Executive / Management
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Summary
The Corporate Strategy Manager is responsible for developing and supporting the development of strategy, and driving necessary changes in the organization. Assist in executing projects that analyze strategic alternatives in depth so that opportunities, short and long term financial implications, trends, competition, risks and opportunities are well understood. Work across multiple functions and businesses to identify issues and assess financial and organizational impact. Assist in making recommendations and ensure alignment with the overall corporate strategy.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the discovery, solution development and recommendation design for key strategic topics including market and competitive analyses
- Develop general strategy efforts for various internal stakeholder on a variety of projects and initiatives with a focus on analytical, process and content support
- Participate in the creation of senior management and Board communication presentations enabling effective communication of related strategies
- Support ongoing business intelligence, competitor tracking and best practice tracking efforts through fact-based analyses for markets, trends and competitors
- Provide analytical and research support for key strategy projects
- Communicate hypotheses, proposed analysis and findings
The most significant challenges for the Manager for the first six months include:
- Learning the organization, culture and processes
- Establishing credibility with and earning the trust of key project teams
- Provide supporting analyses for key strategic initiatives, building internal capabilities and supporting the annual strategy review process
Job Qualifications
- 7+ years of related experience
- MBA required
- Strong quantitative and analytic skills. Advance modeling skills. Ability to synthesize complex data
- Self-starter thats comfortable performing in a fast paced, dynamic and ambiguous business environment with aggressive timelines
- Strong strategic and decision making framework capabilities including hypothesis design, complex issue identification, problem solving approaches, decision frameworks
- Ability to structure documents to effectively communicate with senior management and drive alignment and decision making
- Ability to synthesize marketplace insights from various sources to develop strategic direction operating priorities
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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