Hybrid Strategy Lead

at Westfield Health

• Job title: Strategy Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Westfield Center, United States

About the role

• Strategy Lead responsible for the strategy lifecycle including development and planning. Collaborating with executives to shape the enterprise strategy at Westfield, a property and casualty insurance leader.

Responsibilities

• Handles the responsibility for the entire process development cycle, including design, execution, and continuous improvement of critical processes to support effective strategy workflows.
• Conducts industry trend research, market and competitive analysis, development of new growth opportunities, quantitative analyzes and evaluation of value propositions and competitive advantages to provide recommendations that inform strategic choices.
• Leads critical workflows for reviewing and updating the enterprise strategy and competitive business strategies of the insurance businesses.
• Monitors, evaluates, and analyzes external trends and integrates into strategy development, strategic planning, and competitive business strategy reviews.
• Builds and maintains critical processes to support effective strategic planning post strategy development to ensure successful implementation.
• Performs inorganic strategy activities including target identification, deal evaluation, deal execution and post-merger integration.
• Obtains approval of process recommendations with the Head of Strategy and effectively communicates established processes to appropriate business leaders.
• Collaborates with relevant executives to enable the Strategy Committee to assess the execution of competitive business strategies for each insurance business and the performance of non-insurance business.
• Effectively guides and instructs business leaders throughout the strategy lifecycle efforts by ensuring understanding of critical processes.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience in a strategy consulting organization or on an internal strategy team is required.
• 1+ years of experience with strategy development projects (e.g., competitive analysis, market sizing, growth hypotheses exploration, enterprise mission and vision review, and portfolio strategy).
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development