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Head of Corporate Strategy – Senior Vice President
| Company | State Street |
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| Location | Boston, MA, USA |
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| Salary | $225000 – $337500 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Ability to work effectively at all levels of an organization with proven experience developing and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders including senior c-suite executives, team members, and managers to drive successful completion of the work
- Excellent critical-thinking skills with ability to structure and solve complex business problems
- Ability to clearly articulate ideas, both written and oral, to internal and external audiences
- Strong work-ethic with ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines
Responsibilities
- Drive firm-wide Strategic Planning process to integrate corporate and growth objectives, business unit and functional strategies into an integrated firm-wide strategy; support and facilitate Executive Committee offsites and the annual Board Strategy Offsite
- Design and drive execution framework to assess strategic progress against 3-year plan; facilitate resource allocation across the organization and identify new areas and concentrated bets where State Street should compete and win
- Provide leadership oversight on select cross-enterprise/business unit/function strategies, and support select inorganic transactions
- Be a proactive counselor to senior Executive Committee members, EVPs and SVPs on strategic and corporate portfolio issues and influence State Street’s overall trajectory
- Attract, coach, and develop a high-performing team and develop a collaborative and challenging team environment; the strategy team is a conduit of talent into State Street
Preferred Qualifications
- Completed degree, preferably with a financial or business discipline (MBA, CFA, or equivalent experience)
- Significant management consulting and corporate strategy leadership experience
- 10+ years of work experience with top-tier strategy consulting experience preferred
- Significant exposure to Financial Services and banking, with exposure to asset management, asset servicing, data and analytics, capital markets preferred
- Proven ability to recruit, coach, develop, and promote high-performing individuals
- Strong experience in shaping organization’s strategy and making decisive bets to advance the strategy
