FedEx

Business Strategy Principal

FedEx$120K — $145K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in a quantitative business field or related technical area, plus 3 years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience.
  • Experience in developing frameworks and dashboards aligning technology with business goals.
  • Proficient in using Power BI, SQL, Python, and Databricks for data analysis.
  • Skilled in designing scalable processes to enhance efficiency in large organizations.
  • Adept at collaborating with finance and engineering teams for strategic change management.
  • Experience in leading large-scale platform rollouts and integrations.
  • Strong communication and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

  • Lead evaluation and formulation of strategic objectives and direction.
  • Plan and develop analyses based on business, industry, and market trends.
  • Predict market changes and summarize insights to create distinct analyses.
  • Implement business analyses and manage business case development.
  • Manage ongoing discussions with peer partners on strategic priorities.
  • Participate in cross-functional meetings to provide insights.
  • Interface with various enterprise areas regarding strategic recommendations.

Benefits

  • Eligible for telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S. except Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories.
  • Opportunity for domestic travel approximately 25% of the time to Memphis, TN for team meetings and workshops.
Full Job Description
  • Provides leadership in the evaluation of strategic objectives, formulation of strategic direction, and supports decision making based on assessment of business trends and data analytics.
  • Plans, organizes, and develops analyses/assessments grounded in deep understanding of the business, industry & market trends, consumer behavior, customer segments, and competitive strategy.
  • Predicts changes in the current market and summarizes insights from proprietary and third-party data & information to create distinctive insights.
  • Develops and implements business analyses, manages business case development, and business-at-risk assessments.
  • Develops strategic frameworks and manages processes to build business scenarios.
  • Provides a point of view on key strategic issues across major dimensions of the business - competitive activity, customer segments, technology, etc.
  • Manages ongoing discussions with peer partners in other internal work groups including peers in international regions on identified priorities supported with clear fact based recommendations.
  • Participates in cross-functional meetings and provides insight/guidance to peers/managers in partner teams.
  • Interfaces with areas across the enterprise to discuss changes impacted by strategic recommendations.

Master's degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study plus 3 years of related work experience. As an equivalent alternative, the employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study plus 5 years of related work experience.

Requirements

The position requires experience with:
  • Developing frameworks and dashboards to align technology and business investments with enterprise strategic and financial goals (i.e., Resource and Costing frameworks).
  • Proficient in turning complex datasets into actionable insights using tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, and Databricks (i.e., to inform resource allocation and process optimization).
  • Skilled in assessing operational workflows and designing scalable processes that improve efficiency, visibility, and cross-functional accountability across large organizations.
  • Adept at partnering with finance, engineering, and product leaders to translate strategic objectives into change management and driving adoption of new systems or tools.
  • Leading large-scale platform rollouts and integrations across analytics and business environments, ensuring system functionality aligns with user and organizational needs for portfolio management systems.
  • Strong capability in building automated reporting pipelines, resource management dashboards, and executive-level visibility tools that enable proactive business and financial decision (with Portfolio Management and Resource Management tools as primary data sources).
  • Work experience in functions focused on strategy development, competitive, customer, and industry analysis, market research, analysis of product performance, and support of corporate development/strategic value assessment activities.
  • Demonstrated business acumen and experience of supporting strategic assessments that are transformational in nature including understanding the impact of technology trends on business.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, problem structuring & problem solving skills.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including experience in databases, business intelligence (BI) tools, MS Office products and data modeling.
  • Strong human relations skills.
  • Directly related advanced degrees may offset the experience requirements.
  • Position requires domestic travel approximately 25% of the time to Memphis, TN for team meetings, team planning sessions, or project working sessions.
  • This position is eligible for telecommuting and may be located anywhere within the United States excluding Alaska, Hawaii and U.S. territories.


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Size
228,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.4 billion
Founded
1973
5 Year Trend
+9.2%
Revenue
$74.7 billion
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