Corporate Strategy Manager

at ABM Industries in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Overview

The Corporate Strategy Manager reports to ABM’s VP of Corporate Strategy and presents a unique opportunity to work closely with senior ABM leadership. In this high-impact, highly visible role, you will help shape ABM’s vision and short- and long-term strategies. You will be an integral component in our innovation agenda and translate these strategies with clear directions for the business units and functions. This position presents a unique opportunity to play a vital role in supporting ABM’s most transformative projects.

The Strategy team works like an internal consulting group, partnering closely with corporate, business unit, and functional leadership to solve business challenges and inform decision-making in the most critical, high-impact areas of the business-from corporate/business unit strategy to digital roadmap to operational and organizational effectiveness to business process redesign.

Pay: $150-$175K

The pay listed is the salary range for this position. Any specific offer will vary based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data. You may be eligible to participate in a Company incentive or bonus program.

Benefit Information:

ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM 2024 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management (https://www.abm.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2024-Recruitment-Staff-Mgmt-11.6.23.pdf)

Essential Functions

+ You will lead and facilitate discussions with stakeholders varying in seniority and job functions to gather requirements, pain points, and strategic goals.

+ You will lead and support specific projects, including structuring the questions to address, organizing the work, managing resources, conducting analyses, synthesizing findings, and developing recommendations.

+ Lead high-priority, high-impact strategic, digital/innovation, operational, and organizational projects and teams.

+ Develop deep customer, industry, market, and competitive insights.

+ You will provide strategic analysis and insights to drive the strategic planning process and the evolution of a short- and long-term strategic plan.

+ You will quickly assess the state of the business, learn the key economic drivers with solid analytical capabilities, and support the SVP in formulating a compelling strategic plan working alongside functions and business units.

+ You will conduct ongoing assessments of the industry and competitive landscape, identify key trends impacting the business, and characterize associated opportunities for growth and/or risks.

+ Establishing relationships and interfacing with cross-functional/business unit teams to achieve goals and desired outcomes.

+ You will work closely with functional and business unit leadership – and, importantly, field-level operators – to ensure all initiatives deliver practical, pragmatic and fully operational actions.

+ Contributing to the development/coordination of presentations, communications, planning materials, and other strategy-related documents that are both internally- and externally impacting.

+ You will utilize key capabilities in both written and verbal communication to convey various aspects of each initiative.

You will support and lead the implementation of strategic projects, ensuring stakeholders are engaged, project milestones are tracked, risks are monitored/addressed, and recommendations/findings are synthesized.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS *

Qualifications

+ 8+ years of experience with a strategy/management consulting firm, strategic planning/corporate strategy organization, or related experience

+ MBA or related master’s degree preferred. A bachelor’s degree with demonstrated academic excellence, ideally in a discipline such as business, economics, engineering, marketing, management, or mathematics, is required.

+ Demonstrate excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

+ Demonstrate excellent abilities to develop engaging and compelling PowerPoint presentations.

+ Demonstrated experience taking complex, ambiguous topics into logical, manageable workstreams.

+ Strong quantitative and analytic skills required.

+ Effective communication skills, both written, verbal, and visual.

+ Self-starter with an intellectual curiosity and teamwork capabilities.

+ Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.

+ Able to work autonomously and be comfortable with ambiguity.

+ Accountability to take full ownership of everything you do.

+ Focused on delivering high-quality and timely deliverables with a positive approach toward the work.

+ Hunger for continuous improvement and a desire to be challenged.

+ Collaborative, work well within a small, high-performing team.

+ Travel required 10-25% (depending on location and return to normal activities). Currently virtual teaming.

REQNUMBER: 91687

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.