** This position may work remotely but frequent travel to the Estero FL HQ will be required **

JOB PURPOSE:

This role is known for driving the organizations long-range and strategic planning process, business development and strategy execution and communication to key partners and stakeholders. This role plays a key part in the support and growth journey of the company and will support the SVP Strategy lead enterprise strategic planning and will identify growth and innovation opportunities. 

BUSINESS IMPACT:

This role has an impact on our long-range and strategic planning process

Job Contributions- what will you do

Leadership

• Takes a lead role in area of expertise contributing to the grown and innovation across the business
• Act as a mentor to the team, execute and complete assigned projects within time, scope and budget
• Provide expert level thought leadership in the development of the function
• Mobilize and manage leaders and teams charged with executing strategies, monitor the execution of the strategic plan, and act as a resource across the organization to increase broad cohesion for strategic plans
• Ability to lead and architect multiple engagements
• Drive large business initiatives from concept to completion
• Take individual ownership of the execution for certain critical corporate strategic initiatives
• Provide strategic support, analytical guidance and thought partnership for functional leaders across the organization

Long Range and Strategic Planning

• Support long-range and strategic planning process
• Take responsibility for developing and delivering the strategic planning approach
• Align long-term corporate strategy with business unit strategy
• Translate long-term priorities into near-term initiatives
• Develop core car rental growth and improvement strategy
• Develop business model innovation strategy
• Implement capability development and strategy effectiveness tracking
• Strong problem-solving skills, including ability to gather facts, conduct analysis, and translate data into meaningful insights

Business Development & Strategy Execution

• Tackle specific business opportunities where appropriate
• Contribute to growth and innovation across the business taking a lead role in area of expertise
• Identify and manage stakeholders up to top management level, exploring their needs/issues/concerns and reacting to these by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions
• Undertake strategic and tactical risk modeling and scenario planning for business-critical decisions to support business strategy and to identify and mitigate risk in line with the risk appetite

Communication

• Demonstrate value and foster strategic dialogue
• Forge relationships with key functional leadership to ensure strategic initiatives are highly visible and well-understood throughout the company
• Build inclusive and collaborate process and relationships with all senior leaders
• Motivate others to commit to actions and achieve the organization’s business goals
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs and be able to translate needs into solutions
• Ensure that strategic initiatives have clear ownership and accountability

Strategy

• Develop meaningful insights and recommendations through data driven analysis to help solve the company’s most challenging problems
• Frame impactful options to address strategic issues and ultimately establish well-supported solutions with specific recommendations that will enable the executive team to make critical decisions
• Focus on identifying the right initiatives, with EBITDA and target setting a downstream process from planning
• Have a clear perspective on adjacencies, including M&A
• Challenge norms on how things have always been done
• Contribute to growth and innovation across the business
• Provide research and impact analysis on important strategic topics including competitive strategy and disruptive trends
• Design prototypes and proofs of concepts that best fit the business needs

Essential Requirements

Experience and Qualifications 

• Minimum 10 years’ experience
• Bachelor’s Degree Required; MBA strongly preferred
• Ability to work as part of a team and align across organization
• Expert at developing and delivering presentations
• Ability to build credibility and trust
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Capable of interacting directly and effectively with Senior and Executive leadership
• Strategic mindset
• Collaborative