Position SummaryThe Future Business Operations Strategy Director is a newly created role responsible for building and leading a high-impact team dedicated to new business growth and strategic execution. This leader will own the team's portfolio of new business opportunities, serve as the primary connective tissue between Finance, Lines of Business (LOB) leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure the team stays focused on the initiatives with the greatest potential impact to the enterprise.
This is a build role: the successful candidate will stand up a newly funded function from the ground up defining ways of working, hiring and developing a small team, and establishing the credibility and executive relationships needed for the function to succeed.
Role and ResponsibilitiesRoles & Responsibility:- Own and prioritize the team's overall portfolio of new business opportunities, ensuring focus stays on the highest-impact initiatives.
- Lead and develop team members, build the operating rhythms, tools, and ways of working for the newly established function.
- Establish regular cadence with LOB leaders to identify and align on top strategic priorities, ensuring the team's focus reflects the highest-impact needs across the organization
- Direct market analysis and competitive benchmarking to identify new business model opportunities.
- Guide the team's surfacing and initial screening of new business channels, areas, and models worth pursuing.
- Proactively monitor competitive landscape and emerging business models (e.g., financing, leasing, new channel strategies), translating insights into concrete opportunity recommendations for leadership.
- Oversee due diligence and the development of financial and operational models for prospective new business opportunities.
- Partner closely with the Finance organization early in the process to align business models, assumptions, and ROI expectations before opportunities advance.
- Drive strategic initiatives that require collaboration across multiple lines of business to develop and execute (for example: new leasing models, credit card / financing product differentiation, and similar cross-LOB opportunities).
- Ensure stakeholder alignment, structured initiative management, and cross-LOB execution coordination from concept through implementation.
- Simplify processes and act as a guide/facilitator for business leaders' top strategic initiatives, tracking priorities across LOBs.
- Serve as a key point of contact for LOB leadership and Finance on new business strategy and execution matters.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Finance and the LOBs; represent the team's work and recommendations to executive audiences.
Skills and QualificationsQualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field. MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
- 12+ years of experience in progressive experience in corporate strategy, corporate development, business development, strategic finance, or management consulting.
- Demonstrated experience developing and evaluating new business opportunities, including market analysis, due diligence, and financial/operational modeling.
- Experience leading or driving initiatives across multiple business units or lines of business in a large, matrixed organization.
- Track record of designing new business models and taking them to market, from initial concept through launch.
- Familiarity with alternative business models such as leasing, installment financing, MVNO, or subscription-based revenue structures is a strong plus.
- Strong financial and business acumen; comfortable building and defending business cases and ROI models.
- Prior people-management experience; experience building or scaling a new team or function is a strong plus.
- Excellent communication & presentation skills with ability to influence senior leadership.
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to translate market/competitive analysis into actionable recommendations.
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