Manager, Strategy & Business Development at Light & Wonder (Remote) - Job of the Day
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Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.
Position Summary
The Manager of Strategy and Business Development position is a unique, critical, and highly visible role at Light & Wonder.
This position plays a key, active role managing and executing strategic projects independently and with individuals across business units to support the executive leadership team and board of directors in developing, sustaining, and evolving a focused and impactful strategic agenda for Light & Wonder that creates substantial shareholder value over the coming years.
This role sits within the Strategy team and reports to the Vice President of Strategy & Business Development. The Strategy team works side-by-side with the other organizations under the Chief Strategy Officer, Corporate Development and the Transformation Management office, and is actively involved in developing strategy with business unit leaders. The Strategy team will be a center of top talent in the company and be a pipeline for future executive leadership within the company.
The successful candidate is an independent, analytical, and intellectually curious individual who can structure and execute analyses, develop strategies, and articulate findings to a wide range of stakeholders across the organization’s business units.
Essential Job Functions:
Strategic Projects and Market Analysis
Lead and execute analysis across a series of key strategy and business development projects (e.g., business unit/line-of-business strategy, market entry/go-to-market strategy, new product development, M&A, etc.)
Develop a deep understanding of L&W’s business units, the markets they play in, their strategic priorities and potential opportunities
Identify and develop market insights relevant to current and potential future L&W industry verticals (e.g., market size and growth, key trends, competitive dynamics, industry news, etc.) and develop implications for L&W
Track and own analysis and organization of data from a variety of internal and external sources to establish a “go-to” hub of consolidated market data for all of L&W’s market verticals
Prepare PowerPoint presentations and provide analyses / recommendations to leadership
Structure quantitative analyses and create/manage financial models (e.g., market sizing, forecasts, etc.)
Team Leadership and Stakeholder Management
Actively help manage the project pipeline for the Strategy team
Partner with stakeholders across business units on projects, providing strategic framing and analytical support, to better inform decision making
Work with internal strategy team and cross-BU teams to drive alignment across a diverse group of internal stakeholders
QualCoordinate with CSO and Sr. Director of Strategy & Business Development to build out key strategy team processes
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