The OpportunityBlack & Veatch is seeking a Manager of Corporate Strategy to lead high-impact strategy workstreams and help senior leaders address some of the most consequential opportunities facing global infrastructure markets. Reporting to the Director of Corporate Strategy, the Manager will combine rigorous analysis, structured problem-solving, and executive communication to develop recommendations involving enterprise growth, portfolio priorities, capital allocation, market entry, and strategic investments.
This role is particularly well suited for a high-performing strategy consultant or corporate strategist seeking greater ownership, sustained executive exposure, and the opportunity to remain involved from initial insight through decision and implementation.
The TeamBlack & Veatch's Enterprise Evolution consists of critical functions focused on identifying market opportunities and bringing together our client facing and growth efforts. Functions include Enterprise Marketing & Communications, Enterprise Sales, Enterprise Strategy, Innovation, Mergers and Acquisitions and Sustainability
Key Responsibilities- Lead Strategy Workstreams: Own defined corporate and market-sector strategy workstreams from problem definition through executive recommendation. Establish the analytical approach, coordinate contributors, manage timelines, and ensure that conclusions are supported by clear evidence.
- Generate market and competitive insight: Analyze infrastructure demand, customer priorities, policy and regulatory developments, technology shifts, geographic opportunities, and competitor activity. Translate research into implications and actionable growth recommendations for Black & Veatch.
- Build decision-oriented analysis: Develop market-sizing, scenario, financial, investment, and strategic analyses that enable leaders to compare options and understand potential value, risk, resource requirements, and implementation implications.
- Strategic Analysis using advanced toolkit: Interpret strategic needs at a business unit level and identify solution recommendations for complex problems. Mastery over core strategic frameworks such as advanced behavioral market segmentation, Porters Five Forces, value chain analysis, industry structure, and value proposition.
- M&A and Partnerships: Partner with corporate development, Finance, market leaders, and functional experts to support strategic diligence, investment-thesis development, synergy assessment, partnership evaluation, and integration planning.
- Project and Initiative Leadership: Able to lead teams of junior strategists to guide the development and communication of transformative strategic insight. Able to persuade and influence business unit leaders without authority to achieve deliverable objectives using logical and data driven insight.
- Advanced Analytics: Directs rigorous quantitative analysis and financial modeling to formulate defensible, data-driven viewpoints on emerging market dynamics and structure advantages to identify deep patterns and trends in large infrastructure datasets
- Executive Communication and Influence: Leverages structured executive communication (e.g. Minto Pyramid Principle) to guide C-suite decision-making on complex resource allocation and global infrastructure investments
- Team Leadership and Mentoring: Guide and coach analysts and other team members in research, quantitative analysis, hypothesis-driven problem-solving, synthesis, and executive communication.
- Strategic Toolkits and Modeling: Advanced proficiency in dynamic financial modeling, scenario planning, and complex go-to-market frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications- Proven track record advising Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) clients on corporate strategy, energy transition, or megaproject commercialization
Minimum Qualifications- Education: Bachelor's degree required (Business, engineering, finance, or other related major); MBA or specialized Master's preferred.
- Experience: 7+ years in industry or 1-3 years in M&A, or top-tier consulting, or equivalent ideally within the industrial or infrastructure sectors
- Demonstrated experience leading strategy workstreams and developing recommendations for complex, ambiguous business questions
- All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
Work Environment/Physical Demands- Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.
Salary PlanADM: Administrative/Business
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