Strategy Associate Job Description
Strategy associate
provides business and technical expertise in developing/performing data analysis and reporting in an Access, Excel or PowerPoint environment(s), to support standard reporting and ad-hoc analysis.
Strategy Associate Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Undertaking ad hoc analysis to identify new business opportunities in the region
Support store level deep dive top customer analysis
Performing quality control and validation procedures on all aspects of analysis and reporting
Analyze findings using analytic tools like root-cause analysis
Financial analysis and assessment of client’s existing operations
Category assessment, competitive analysis and projections of future growth
Create PowerPoint presentations and other written content for internal and external stakeholders, including monthly and quarterly executive operating meetings strategic communications for clinical leaders and front line colleagues
Producing presentations & supporting documents for key regional meetings
Develop reporting dashboards to track top Customer KPIs, measure success and response to regional marketing activities, BPC events, in store initiatives and promotions
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Strategy Associate Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Strategy Associate
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CFA, RAC, PMP, CCB, CPA, SAS, CISSP, CISA, CPSM, GCFW
Education for Strategy Associate
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the strategy associate job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Finance, MBA, Marketing, Business/Administration, Communications, Economics, Advertising, Engineering, Accounting
Skills for Strategy Associate
Desired skills for strategy associate include:
Financial modeling
Microsoft Excel
Analysis
Excel
PowerPoint and demonstrated experience in business valuation
Research and presentation creation
Data analytics and data science
PowerPoint
SQL
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Desired experience for strategy associate includes:
Keen interest and passion for gaming required
Comfortable with uncertainty
Strong personal initiative, good judgment, and impeccable ethics
Between 2-5 years' experience in a research role, with strong preference for an economics or financial markets role at a financial institution or in the government sector
Help build holistic communications plans by working closely with consumer and media strategists investment specialists
Use qualitative and quantitative research to develop consumer insights, channel roles, budget allocations, and begin to develop analytical skills
Strategy Associate Examples
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Strategy Associate Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a strategy associate. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for strategy associate
- Develops expertise in a particular area of SO work, and creates various parts of SO toolkit for that area (e.g., core frameworks, standard processes, standard analytics)
- Participates in projects that help set the SO agenda, improve team effectiveness/engagement, improve people processes, skill-building
- Operation of Elanco’s portfolio model which provides strategic guidance to the R&D Steering Team and the R&D Leadership Team when making portfolio decisions
- Enhancement of the Elanco portfolio model including creation of the Product Line Extension model
- Provide portfolio reports to R&D Leadership and Teams, including Reliable Delivery updates
- Serve as a Planisware super user and train other Planisware super users from Project Management and other parts of R&D
- Lead and support other R&D strategic projects
- Work effectively with all Elanco colleagues and external collaborators to achieve overall Elanco R&D deliverables
- Provide and accept challenge to deliver innovative solutions and create an innovative culture
- Demonstrate energy, drive and intellectual curiosity needed to improve the overall performance of Elanco R&D
Qualifications for strategy associate
- 1-5 years of investment banking / consulting / analytical or related experience
- The position must demonstrate initiative and have the capability of working independently
- Bachelor’s degree and strong academic record
- Pursuing a MBA degree from a world leading university, with anticipated graduation date before July 2017
- Demonstrated leadership and teaming skills, preferably with demonstrated impact in a commercial environment
- Strong knowledge of digital media landscape, platforms and markets
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of strategy associate. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for strategy associate
- Write memos and correspondence for internal and external business audiences
- Draw business processes and ideas in slide and paper form to teach members
- Design tools in physical formats (e.g., a printed checklist or guide) and digital formats (e.g., a data benchmarking tool)
- Coordinate and support consultative meetings with member organizations
- Oversee operations across multiple offices in Washington DC to ensure seamless support for the Company’s agents and staff
- Identify HR needs and assist in the growth of the team
- Lead financial and strategic planning for the region
- Develop recruiting materials and service offerings to continue to attract the top agents in the region
- Develop value-added partnerships for the Company
- Run contract negotiation and vendor management
Qualifications for strategy associate
- Strong emerging end-to-end generalist problem solving skills, , • Defining and deconstructing problems
- Bachelor's degree in relevant major and strong academic achievement
- Experience developing projects within a content owner, commercial or agency environment
- Previous experience researching and scoping digital projects
- Ability to manage many projects simultaneously and deliver results
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or business discipline with 5 years of Innovation Strategy, Portfolio modeling and Portfolio management experience
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a strategy associate. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for strategy associate
- Conducts analysis and identifies key communications trends across the category
- Team with other HBT functions to leverage existing intelligence and insure competitive intelligence is timely disseminated to all stakeholders
- Contribute to regular updates on market conditions and latest evolutions
- Work closely with colleagues to successfully execute employee events, meetings, conferences and special events
- Lead or support key strategic initiatives across Enterprise
- Steward approved media plans
- Monthly activity
- Participate in strategic projects where you will gather and analyse data, conduct problem solving and interviews, build top-down storylines
- Be responsible for ad hoc requests from management
- Collaborate with agency partners to develop brand campaigns
Qualifications for strategy associate
- Master’s degree, or higher, in a scientific or business discipline plus eight years of experience
- Two or more years of Animal/Human healthcare experience
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills are essential for success
- Curious, a desire for continuous learning
- Demonstrated interest in understanding how organizations operate and set strategy
- The ideal candidate will have a strong strategic mindset
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Our company is looking to fill the role of strategy associate. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for strategy associate
- Directly responsible for completion, and continuous improvement of matrix reviews, competitive comparisons and other analysis used to position Touchstone Strategies in advisor portfolios
- Responsible for the assessment and alignment of global strategies and local media plans
- Identifies and promotes best practices across Global Consumer Beauty brands
- Assists in more advanced strategic leadership functions as part of training and development
- Supervises and develops skills of the Account Executive and Manager
- Manages workload, delegates responsibilities and reviews work for accuracy
- Provides job performance feedback and make recommendations to management
- Resource for others in the resolution of complex problems/issues
- Sensitive to the needs of a global business
- May perform other duties and responsibilities, as deemed necessary
Qualifications for strategy associate
- Bachelor’s Degree Required, preferably in an analytical field such as Finance, Economics, or Mathematics
- Strong written and verbal communications skills, especially persuasive writing
- Ability to function independently part of an interdisciplinary team
- Ability to work in fast pace, multi-tasking team environment while meeting deadlines
- A passion for improving post-acute care for our patients and members
- Willingness to travel to market locations or other offices, as needed (<10% travel time)
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a strategy associate. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for strategy associate
- Efficiently execute research tasks by prioritizing research activity, and conducting competitive assessments, consumer research, financial analysis, and industry research to help determine future strategy
- Track and communicate key industry trends, providing analysis and actionable insights to help the CREATED team assess potential new partnerships opportunities with existing partners
- Conduct analysis of key business drivers and performance indicators, condensing it into weekly reports and presenting them to managers and executives to influence decision-making
- Performs all other necessary and requested product duties
- Serve as quantitative market content expert for the covered categories
- Provide thought leadership in market analytics by working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop appropriate analytical models and identify incremental revenue and/or margin opportunities
- Provide senior leaders with actionable recommendations based on analytical research
- Analyze and articulate market and category trends, conditions and potential shifts
- Develop long-term (5 year) market forecast by category detail - Price Band, Screen Size, for units, revenues and installed base
- Develop and manage large data sets with detailed market size granularities including geographies, customer segments and channels
Qualifications for strategy associate
- Develop frameworks to analyze business problems, develop hypotheses, mine data, deliver recommendations, and assess impact of proposed solutions
- Lead a project or be team member for specific client studies with direct contact to senior executives in the organization
- 2-3 years work experience as an investment banking analyst
- A Bachelor’s Degree in business, finance or related field
- CSC certifications
- CIM, CFA, CAIA, or other financial certifications preferred