FICO

Director – Corporate Strategy

FICO

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $126,700 - $199,100 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Identify opportunities for significant shareholder value creation and recommend practical approaches to realize those opportunities
  • Lead strategic projects and initiatives for Software, Scores and FICO corporate across a broad range of areas such as new business opportunities, growth, pricing, cost reduction/efficiency, and organizational restructuring
  • Lead, or contribute to, corporate development projects, including acquisitions, divestitures and partnerships. This can include deal strategic assessment, negotiations, post transaction planning and full post-merger integration
  • Create broad organizational alignment on key strategic projects and initiatives by leading cross-functional teams of managers and leaders
  • Present recommendations to key stakeholders, including senior leaders across the business, to foster broad, consistent understanding, and strategic alignment

Requirements

  • Experience in a leading strategic consulting firm, preferably at the engagement manager / project leader level
  • Proven strategic thinker with experience working on strategy projects, including but not limited to growth, go-to-market, product, and innovation strategy
  • Understanding of, and experience working on projects in the financial services (lending, retail banking, payments), information services, and/or software sectors
  • Proven mastery over the “strategy skillset” including: conceptual problem solving and comfort with ambiguity; economic and financial modeling and analyses; gathering and analysis of competitor and market demand data, leveraging both internal and external sources; working in and leading complex, cross-functional project teams and structuring, developing, and communicating executive-ready materials with top-down messaging and insightful recommendations on opportunities, capabilities, risks, and ROI
  • Distinctive ownership over outcomes, proactively anticipating what comes next, driving work to completion without being directed, and holding themselves accountable to business impact rather than just workstream delivery
  • Entrepreneurial mindset, not just executing assigned projects, but identifying white space, generating hypotheses about where value can be created, and independently structuring and proposing new workstreams around those ideas
  • Influencing and aligning stakeholders across the business by building credibility quickly, navigating competing priorities, and bringing the right people to a shared point of view in a way that drives decisions and moves initiatives forward
  • Commitment to developing others by actively investing time in the growth of more junior colleagues across the strategy team through feedback and hands on coaching
  • BS degree preferred in business administration, marketing, economics, or an analysis-based discipline. Emphasis on data analysis, statistics, business systems or software engineering a plus.
Benefits
  • Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs
  • Engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance
  • Employee resource groups
  • Social events to promote interaction and camaraderie
  • Opportunities for professional development by leveraging unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic assessmenteconomic modelingfinancial modelingmarket demand analysisdata analysisstatistical analysisproject managementexecutive communicationproblem solvingcross-functional team leadership
Soft Skills
strategic thinkingownershipentrepreneurial mindsetinfluencing stakeholdersalignmentcoachingproactive anticipationdecision makingcommunicationcredibility building