Head of Business Strategy

Manager, Corporate Strategy

The Corporate Strategy Team is charged with challenging the status quo and developing strategies that drive GM's transformation to be the most admired automotive company and achieve the vision of Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. We partner with senior leadership across all functions and lines of business to develop a coherent corporate strategy and execute strategic initiatives that drive value through the core business and propel GM into future market opportunities.

Reporting to the Director, Corporate Strategy, this role will be responsible for collaborating and leading strategic projects, communication, and coordinated execution of GM's strategy process and the corresponding strategic initiatives.

Lead strategic projects including defining the scope, questions to be answered, analysis required to define the strategic direction and executing the work

Develop work plans, gather, and generate relevant data, drive analyses, and the development of actionable recommendations

Engage the business in defining and refining business strategies with a focus on designing and implementing new strategic approaches, ideas and processes that will grow the business and provide measurable results

Manage project teams, align on cross-functional goals and outcomes

Build credibility and trust with leaders across the organization to achieve collaborative implementation of growth strategies

Disrupt the status quo and drive innovation to transform the way business is conducted

In partnership with CorpDev, explore potential M&A/JV/partnership opportunities to strengthen the portfolio of mission-aligned growth initiatives

Develop ideas to continuously refine and improve the core business and conduct competitive intelligence

Serve as a strategy advocate and expert to the business, socialize the strategy framework/toolkit with others

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Marketing, or a related discipline. MBA preferred

• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Knowledge and experience gained from leadership roles in relevant customer-oriented industries with particular focus on businesses that have successfully undergone digital transformation and technology-driven change. Automotive sector experience is not a requirement, but technology-oriented industries will be an advantage.
• Strong leadership skills including building relationships internally and externally, influencing others, collaborative problem solving, and effective partnership with key internal stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills with a keen attention to detail and operations with a sense of urgency to move from ideas to action.
• Drawn to and skilled at solving complex problems.
• Strong and consistent personal ethics and a high sense of integrity.
• Strong grasp of data and analytics to ground decision making.

This means the successful candidate is expected to report to the Global HQ Hudson Building Detroit, MI three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business]

Relocation: This job is NOT eligible for relocation benefits

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