Primary role purpose:
The Senior Strategy & Business Development Manager is a key member of the Chief Strategy Office who will support and/or lead a number of corporate strategy and business development initiatives and work on various initiatives including strategy planning and strategic projects, market and competitor assessments, strategic business case development, and more.
The scope of the role includes a wide range of activities and responsibilities such as the development of corporate strategy materials and contribution to strategic plans, market research and strategic assessments, stakeholder management, facilitation of strategy workshops, internal and external presentations, support and lead on modelling and business cases, internal and external due diligence, contribution to internal and external communications around the strategy and strategic issues of the company, support to a number of Corporate Business Development (BD) initiatives, as well as reporting including regular strategy, plan execution, market and competitor updates to the CSO, the Senior Leadership Team, Exec and Board.
Key Responsibilities:
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Support the corporate strategic planning and strategy definition process of the company
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Conduct strategic assessments and be a key contributor to large strategic business cases
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Contribute to large strategic corporate projects/initiatives at Inmarsat that are led and/or supported by the CSO team
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Diligently assess and constructively challenge internal strategy plans and business cases and make constructive recommendations for improvements and adjustments
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Engage with strategy and business development stakeholders across the company and build strong working relationship and communication channels
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Facilitate stakeholder engagement with business units (BUs) and central functions, and alignment on strategic plans and questions through organising
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Organise, facilitate and lead on internal strategy meetings and workshops
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Drive strategy execution by assessing and tracking progress of strategic objectives and KPIs, flagging issues and contributing risk mitigation actions, necessary adjustments, etc.
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Contribute to the constant improvement (and/or creating) of necessary strategy processes of the company
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Conduct research on market trends, market sizes, competitive landscape, etc. to support CSO activities
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Help ensure that the CSO team and other key stakeholders are kept up to date on strategically relevant topics, trends, and data through pro-active data/information gathering and dissemination
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Research, maintain and improve a live database of strategically relevant information (KPIs) on Inmarsat itself as well as our external market and competitor environment
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Development of strategy papers, corporate strategy materials, presentations, templates, for SLT, internal review boards and SteerCos, and Exec meetings
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Financial modelling and analysis in support of strategic projects, business cases, etc.
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Support to Business Development initiatives and engagement with external parties
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Work with the rest of the strategy team to support on any other activities of the CSO team
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Participate in industry conferences if and when relevant