Strategic Initiatives Manager

Strategic Initiatives Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in business administration, communications, or similar field.
• 5+ years of experience working with advanced analytics, data science, engineering, or other quant related field.
• Experience in change management, project management or coordination, including resource management.
• Strong communication and project-reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communications and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill the role of the voice of the initiative from inception to implementation.
• Drive the team to define the goal of the initiative with great clarity and alignment.
• Help everyone understand that we are not ‘Done’ until the initiative is implemented and integrated or live in production.
• Start every meeting with the baseline answers to the questions: ‘What problem are we trying to solve?’ and ‘What does success look like?’.
• Update the team with regular written communications that fall into the department’s standardize communications cadence.
• Continuous improvement mindset, including monitoring solutions post-implementation to ensure business objectives are met and establishing regular review sessions with stakeholders for ongoing improvements.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by evaluating existing workflows and processes within the Data & Analytics team, identifying areas of improvement to drive efficiency, quality, and productivity.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define business requirements and ensure alignment on scalable solutions.
• Gather feedback from end-users and stakeholders to refine and enhance solutions.
• Act as a change agent to facilitate organizational transformation, ensuring alignment across impacted teams and functions.
• Develop documentation, training materials, and user guides to drive communication and training efforts to support solution adoption.
• Communicate project updates, outcomes, and impact to stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
• Support prioritization of initiatives in alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Identify and implement tools, methodologies, and streamlined processes for a structured approach to managing strategic initiatives effectively and efficiently.
• Document business requirements and establish success metrics for new projects, initiatives, and requests.
• Support implementation of scalable solutions, leading resource allocation and risk management.
• Ensure progress and dependencies of key projects are tracked and reported on consistently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to understand business processes, goals, and challenges to design effective solutions within the ‘big picture’ of the organization.
• Ability to translate and articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa. Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to manage stakeholders and influence decision-making.
• Ability to document and streamline processes, with a mindset for efficiency.