Role Summary:
The Manager, Corporate Strategy leads the evaluation, structuring, and coordination of strategic initiatives through the supervision of the Corporate Strategy team. The role translates top management’s strategic direction into actionable, rigorously assessed initiatives, ensuring alignment with the company’s 10-year vision, strategic planning cycles, and execution frameworks.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead and oversee the Analysts and Senior Analysts of the Corporate Strategy team, including workload allocation, quality control, coaching, and development.
- Structure, prioritize, and maintain the portfolio of strategic initiatives, aligned with the company’s long-term growth strategy and 10-year vision.
- Supervise feasibility studies and strategic assessments covering market, industrial, financial, and organizational aspects.
- Consolidate and validate project analyses, reports, and presentations submitted to the Director and Executive Management.
- Provide macro-assumptions and external insights to feed the company’s annual 10-year planning cycle and commercial roadmap.
- Align initiative timelines and execution milestones with the macro-planning framework, ensuring coherence across departments.
- Act as the operational gatekeeper for strategic projects, ensuring initiatives are well-structured before presentation to senior leadership.
- Own the department’s working relationship with external strategy consultants and research providers, including scoping, selection input, budget control, and performance management, while retaining internal ownership of judgement and conclusions.
Qualification & Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, economics, finance, business administration, or a related field from a recognised university.
- Master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
- Experience in a top-tier strategy consulting firm or a corporate strategy function is strongly preferred.
Experience:
- Industry route: 8 to 11 years in corporate strategy, corporate development, or business planning, including at least 3 years leading teams or workstreams.
- Consulting route: 5 to 6 years in a strategy consulting firm, including at least 2 years at Engagement Manager or Manager level with responsibility for leading teams.
- Either route is acceptable. Experience in oil and gas, industrial, manufacturing, or other capital-intensive sectors is required.
- Experience managing high-impact, cross-departmental initiatives, with direct exposure to executive-level and Board-level discussions.
Skills:
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills; able to assess complex information and draw clear conclusions.
- Solid project and portfolio management skills, including planning, prioritization, and execution tracking.
- Experience working across departments and aligning cross-functional teams toward shared objectives.
- Good team leadership skills with the ability to guide and develop junior team members.
- Effective communication and presentation skills; confident in delivering content to senior leaders.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making ability, especially under time pressure or uncertainty.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for data analysis, business case development, and reporting.
- Good understanding of industrial, financial, and strategic business drivers.
- Proven ability to build, coach, and retain a high-performing analytical team.
