Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, the VP Enterprise Strategy Social Impact Agenda leads a team of highly experienced strategy professionals and is responsible for driving the strategic thinking, planning and execution in the social impact Issue Areas and Strategic Priorities.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Manage and lead team of Strategy Directors and a strategy analyst.
- Lead the alignment of enterprise goals and strategies to execution roadmaps
- Directly provide hands-on strategy support to two or more Issue Areas/Strategic Priorities
- Enable, educate and empower leads and matrix teams on effective strategy and execution
- Lead and facilitate planning and alignment across the enterprise
- Shape emerging opportunities
- Partner with SVP, Enterprise Strategy to provide Board and CEO support
- Special projects based on other key areas of strategic interest to AARP as identified and assigned
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Business or related field required; Master’s Degree desired.
Skills/Experience:
- 5+ years of job related experience; in-depth knowledge of finance, marketing and business development function; experience leading and managing a high performance team of experienced strategy professionals.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and planning skills and the ability to communicate strategic plans to the team and others.
- Ability to influence all levels of management.
- Proven ability to lead effectively in a matrix environment, contribute to cross-functional efforts. Demonstrated ability to collaborate across the enterprise in an extremely complex organization. Ability to gain internal respect and build consensus from superiors, peers and subordinates.
- Must be able to work independently with minimal instruction; a self-starter with a strong work ethic and a desire to go the extra mile.
- A desire to aggressively further goals in an innovative, collaborative manner.
- Flexibility and ability to work fast under tight deadlines with demanding quality requirements.
- Ability to effectively leverage company resources, including employees, at all levels to maximize the results against plan. Strong cross-functional and implementation experience in all core corporate functions. Ability to mobilize resources across all needed functions at AARP to achieve superior results via collaboration.
- Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external partners and business partners at all levels and in a manner that supports AARP’s mission and strategic position in the marketplace.
Compensation/Benefits:
AARP offers competitive benefits with a 401K, 100% company funded pension plan, health, dental, vision and life insurance, STD/LTD, paid vacation and sick, and other benefits.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jan 12 2018
Active Until:
Feb 13 2018
Hiring Organization:
AARP
industry:
Nonprofit