Job Description
**Strategy and Business Planning Manager**
- A Strategy and Business Planning Manager is a professional demeanor, excellent communication and organizational skills with the ability to work on a wide range of tasks, and strategic initiatives. _
- This position plays a critically important role, enabling these leaders to work more effectively with internal and external stakeholders. This role is highly strategic and facilitative, requiring a combination of focus and flexibility and a willingness to play an active, operational, and communicative function. As the President's 'trusted counsel,' the role requires strong emotional intelligence, self-motivation, and strong analytical and interpersonal skills. _
**Your Role**
- Build and run all transformational projects
- Measure project performance using appropriate project management tools
- Work with the channel, sales strategy, and business management teams to run the team efficiently, ensuring fluid communication and an action mindset, and prioritize initiatives & projects.
- Create and maintain a comprehensive project documentation
- Facilitate and manage the process of identifying, prioritizing, chartering, communicating, and managing key strategic projects.
- Manage Relationships with key internal and external Stakeholders.
- Govern the strategic planning process
- Prepare business presentations.
- Prepare reports and informational documents to inform and support business leaders.
- Handling administrative requests and queries from senior leadership.
- Act as a change agent for business transformation initiatives and tools that further optimize our end-to-end business execution and performance.
- Collaborate with leaders to effectively manage time between leaders and critical stakeholders.
- Tracking key strategic actions and driving them to closure.
- Support leaders with ad-hoc projects and key strategic initiatives, and deputize them whenever it is possible in critical meetings.
**Your Background**
- Bachelor's degree any field MBA is a strong plus.
- 10+ years of work experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Advanced English skills
- Knowledge in end-to-end P&L management.
- Product portfolio knowledge and market/competitive analysis.
- The individual must be able to deal with ambiguity and should be able to respond quickly to multiple issues and tight deadlines.
- Strong leadership skills
- Manage Matrix reporting relationship
- Proactivity and self-direction
**Other requirements**:
- Superior organizational skills and project/time management abilities, with the ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
- Ability to navigate and maintain good relationships spanning product, sales, marketing, finance, etc.
- Leadership skills with the ability to inspire others to achieve a common objective
- Enjoys keeping a fast pace and high energy and is not easily stressed
- Strong Analytical skills and ability to synthesize large amounts of information from multiple sources to draw conclusions
- Emotional intelligence, flexible work style, and excellent diplomatic skills across all levels of the organization
- Excellent communications skills with the ability to simplify and explain complex problems to stakeholders of all levels across multiple functions, with a willingness to challenge when necessary
- Keen business acumen
- govern the strategic planning, understand our strategy, assess how well we are executing it, offer recommendations for improvement
- Entrepreneurial and creative mindset with the ability to formulate solutions to problems and Strong process orientation and perspective.
- The highest level of integrity and an unwavering sense of what is best for the business
- Ability to give and receive feedback and constructive criticism
- Tracking critical strategic actions and driving them to closure.
**Aptiv Rewards & Advantages**
- _Competitive compensation package including;, Healthcare, Pension. _
- _Learning, professional growth and development in a world recognized international environment. _
- _Recognition for innovation and excellence. _
- _Opportunities to give back to the community. _
- _Meaningful work that makes a difference in the world _
**Some see differences. We see perspectives that make us stronger.**
Diversity and Inclusion are sources of innovation and creativity, both of which are essential to Aptiv's success. Everyday our diverse team comes together, drives innovation, pursues solutions, and meets challenges using their unique abilities, perspectives and talents, changing what tomorrow brings. When you join our team, you'll get encouraged to think boldly, express your viewpoint and innovate as a matter of habit.
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