Location: Fen End / Gaydon / Oxford Road as required (Min 2/3 days in Office)
Employment Type: Contract (Currently financed until 31/03/2025)
Reference: J39435
The successful candidate will deliver real impact to both the customer and to our client through defining clear proposals for delivery by programme management and measuring current business performance to propose improvements, with a clear focus on optimising value for the customer and for the business.
The candidate will be able to develop new processes and analyse data to bring structure, insights, and recommendations to the strategy development. They will be analytical, data-driven, with a level of financial awareness, and strong stakeholder management skills, alongside a drive for continuous improvement.
They’ll have the opportunity to help define VP future products and business direction as well as a level of responsibility, autonomy, and exposure to senior leadership.
They’ll get an insight into the VP business, how it operates, makes decisions, and interacts with the core business as well as an opportunity to make a positive contribution to our client’s business.
The Strategy Analyst is responsible for:
Understanding the market, competitor, and customer landscape to support development of the strategy and ensure we are world class in our customer offer and experience Providing data and insights to support continual development of our whole life plan for every brand, working with all strategy teams to ensure enterprise wide planning Coordinating a portfolio of study projects from concept through to cycle plan approval to maximise the value of the customer offering Working with a cross functional team to scope the appropriate programme content to meet customer, technical, attribute, and financial requirements, ensuring we have appropriate resource, funding, and application plans Developing new processes and inputting into the improvement of existing processes to ensure robust, documented and successful delivery of the business unit strategy Supporting the Vehicle Personalisation Strategy Managers as required
Skills required:
* Strategic Development - able to use data and insights to develop a strategic plan and proposal
* Cross Functional Stakeholder Management - able to work with a wide network of stakeholders to complete a strategic project
* Process interrogation and development - able to assess processes and propose improvements to deliver robust and deliverable strategic proposals
Experience Required:
* Previous strategic experience - managing strategic projects, developing strategic proposals, able to demonstrate an aptitude for thinking around an issue to develop a solution
* Strong commercial acumen - commercially astute with the ability to understand the business function this role supports within the context of the wider auto industry
* Strong financial acumen - able to understand and interrogate business cases and financial data Experience of leading projects as well as being an excellent network and relationship builder"
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify how one issue can impact on another
* Confidence to question/challenge where appropriate the established wisdom bringing a `fresh eyes approach
* Able to simplify complex scenarios and proposals for communication to a wide stakeholder network
* Experience working in luxury retail and/or luxury automotive environment
* Be self-motivated with a strong sense of accountability
* Strong presentation and communication skills, including to senior management/ director level
Additional information:
Vehicle Strategy - Gaydon / Oxford Road / Fen End as required 2/3 days in Office
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