Strategy Analyst

Job Description

How will your role impact First Command?

The Strategy Analyst supports the vision, strategy, and thinking methodologies used to innovate new products and services, introduce novel or disruptive ideas, improve existing processes, and create a culture of innovation within the company. They play a key role in shaping the company's direction by conducting thorough market research, analyzing trends, and developing comprehensive strategies that align with business objectives. They gather, review, and test data and apply many measures to provide solutions to critical business issues and decisions. They address business problems with a long-term view, but when necessary, they assist in the short-term.

Strategy analysts sometimes develop pricing strategies and models, identify possible new growth initiatives, and build a pipeline of opportunities for partnerships. They work closely with product, sales, and business development teams to increase market share. They provide, communicate, and implement strategies to address competition.

What will you be doing?

• Provide support in analyzing market trends and competitive landscape, identifying business opportunities, and developing strategic plans to drive growth and improve performance.
• Leverage insights to define, recommend and /or co-create strategic solutions.
• Help identify strategies to grow the programmatic business, then provide key support on growth initiatives operationally across sales, marketing, and sales ops.
• Partner with functional leaders to provide reporting on spend and resource planning.
• Contribute to winning profitable business by proposal writing, pricing, shaping opportunities, pitch preparation and opportunity spotting.
• Provide actionable insights and modeling to improve strategy and performance.
• Develop dashboards, executive summaries, and weekly/monthly reports to measure against KPIs and market dynamics.
• Provide support, as needed, on complex deals with deal economics and timely analytics.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (resource) to staff and stakeholders on client membership, growth and operational strategy issues.
• Identify potential business issues and develop contingency plans to effectively mitigate risks.
• Develop business specific market, product, and customer knowledge to better serve the needs of senior staff and clients.
• Present findings from analysis to external and internal clients/stakeholders using effective visuals to convey data/info in easily digestible manner with clear takeaways.
• Create pricing models capturing the value proposition that drives clear ROI to clients and businesses.
• Work closely with department teammates to assist in evaluating, implementing and monitoring progress on key development opportunities.
• Participates in implementing strategic innovation initiatives.
• Conducts research to collect data and background information for innovation projects.
• Collaborates with internal teams or outside partners to support experimentation, testing, and prototyping of new products and processes.
• Collects data and performs analysis of initiatives to quantify results.

What skill/qualifications do you need?

Education

• Bachelor's degree

Work Experience

• 3+ years serving in a strategic capacity.
• Experience with SQL and R Language software and systems.
• Experience with frameworks, statistics, and algorithm design.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making ability.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• An advocate dedicated to continuous improvement.
• Comfortable negotiating and collaborating with others.
• Comfortable utilizing business case development and strategic thinking to solve problems.

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