Amazon

Strategic Planning & Corporate Development Lead (ADBL174)

Amazon$179K — $220K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field or Master's degree with five years of experience.
  • Six years in strategic transactions or related role with a focus on digital media, investment banking, or consulting.
  • Five years of experience using quantitative metrics for strategic communication.
  • Five years in transactional modeling, due diligence for mergers or acquisitions.
  • Five years working in the digital media landscape as a buyer or investor.
  • Three years collaborating directly with C-suite executives on transactions and presentations.
  • Three years in a client-facing, high-pressure consulting role.

Responsibilities

  • Build and execute strategic plans to meet business goals.
  • Identify opportunities through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
  • Formulate goals and milestones for achieving strategic objectives.
  • Lead long-range planning and capital allocation discussions with executives.
  • Draft detailed transaction recommendations using various formats and tools.
  • Drive inorganic growth initiatives by collaborating across departments.
  • Advise senior leadership on strategic priorities based on market intelligence.

Benefits

  • Partial telecommuting permitted, requiring office attendance up to three days a week.
  • Full range of medical and financial benefits available.
Full Job Description
Employer: Audible, Inc.

Title: Strategic Planning & Corporate Development Lead

Location: 1 Washington Park, Newark, NJ 07102 and New York, NY

Duties: Build cohesive strategic plans to accomplish business objectives, identify specific areas of opportunity through quantitative and qualitative analysis, and formulate goals and milestones to achieve objectives. Own company's long-range planning efforts and building capital allocation philosophies with our executive team. Partner with senior corporate development leadership on draft transaction recommendations. Draft recommendations using a combination of Excel, PowerPoint, and the PR/FAQ format based on input from content, product, marketing, finance, analytics, and technology leadership teams. Lead inorganic growth efforts by partnering with finance, legal, corporate development, and company executives. Serve as strategic advisor for senior leadership across the organization on build/buy/partner opportunities. Drive cross functional initiatives, leading by influence, and without direct authority. Actively provide an "outside-in" perspective and recommend strategic priorities based on competitive and consumer intelligence. Guide and lead the executive team designing the annual operating plan. Partial telecommuting permitted; employees will be required to report to office a maximum of three (3) days per week.

Requirements: Requires a Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Government, Business Administration, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field plus six (6) years of experience as a Director for Strategic Transactions, or a related occupation involving experience in digital media, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, management consulting, or a related field. Experience may be gained concurrently and must include:

Five (5) years in each of the following:

- Using quantitative data and metrics to communicate ideas

- Applying direct transactional modeling and analysis experience, including due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, or complex multinational business development deals

- Working in the digital media content landscape, both as a strategic and financial buyer or investor

- Tracking, prioritizing, and driving multiple concurrent projects to success.

Three (3) years in each of the following:

- Transactional leadership experience working directly with the C-suite on a regular basis

- Producing documents and presentations, including board presentations, long-term plans, and business cases using Microsoft Office for leadership/C-suite executives' review

- Working in a client-facing environment under tight timelines in a consultative capacity, as a senior associate, manager, vice president, or team-level contributor at a top tier law firm, investment firm, or consulting organization.

One (1) year in the following:

- Leading large, complex, cross-functional teams on ambiguous projects

- Leading long-range planning efforts or facilitating investment tradeoffs with executive leadership.

Alternatively, will accept a Master's degree and five (5) years of experience.

Salary: $179,088 - $220,100 /year. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs

Job Code: ADBL174.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Requires a Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Government, Business Administration, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field plus six (6) years of experience as a Director for Strategic Transactions, or a related occupation involving experience in digital media, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, management consulting, or a related field. Experience may be gained concurrently and must include:

- Five (5) years in each of the following:

- - Using quantitative data and metrics to communicate ideas

- - Applying direct transactional modeling and analysis experience, including due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, or complex multinational business development deals

- - Working in the digital media content landscape, both as a strategic and financial buyer or investor

- - Tracking, prioritizing, and driving multiple concurrent projects to success.

- Three (3) years in each of the following:

- - Transactional leadership experience working directly with the C-suite on a regular basis

- - Producing documents and presentations, including board presentations, long-term plans, and business cases using Microsoft Office for leadership/C-suite executives' review

- - Working in a client-facing environment under tight timelines in a consultative capacity, as a senior associate, manager, vice president, or team-level contributor at a top tier law firm, investment firm, or consulting organization.

- One (1) year in the following:

- - Leading large, complex, cross-functional teams on ambiguous projects

- - Leading long-range planning efforts or facilitating investment tradeoffs with executive leadership.

- Alternatively, will accept a Master's degree and five (5) years of experience.

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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Please see job description and the position requirements above.

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About Amazon

Audible is a provider of spoken audio information and entertainment , on the Internet. They provide premium spoken audio content, such as audio versions of books and newspapers and radio programs, that is delivered over the Internet and played back on personal computers and hand-held electronic devices. The Audible service allows consumers to purchase and download their content from their Website, store it in digital files and play it back on personal computers and electronic devices. More than 15,000 hours of audio content are available on their Web site, including audio versions of books, periodicals and radio programs. Several manufacturers have agreed to support and promote the playback of their content on their hand-held audio-enabled electronic devices.

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