Sr. Manager, Strategy & Planning

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At T-Mobile, we pride ourselves on being the Un-Carrier, industry disruptors passionate about solving our customers pain points. Now, we are bringing that same philosophy to advertising and digital media.
T-Mobile Advertising Solutions (T-Ads), a division of T-Mobile USA, is a new business unit within the Marketing, Innovation and Experiences division passionate about solving some of the biggest struggles in the media advertising industry. Were standing up for consumers and advertisers to drive more transparency, more relevancy, and more engagement.
T-Ads is looking for an experienced Strategy & Planning professional. The Sr Manager, Strategy & Planning supports planning and execution for strategic and operational activities aimed at maximizing time spent and quality of discussion for senior leadership. This role coordinates and drives projects of high importance and high visibility and requires a high degree of business acumen, discretion, urgency, and strong project management skills to be successful, including but not limited to operating rhythm, business case development, business planning, and strategic initiatives.
Job Responsibilities:
Responsible for leading strategic initiatives and cross-functional initiatives for T-Ads, plans and executes them through a variety of means, most of which require intensive collaboration with business teams across the organization.
Accountable for maintaining and supporting operating rhythm and process management for T-Ads Senior Leadership Team, including agenda-setting across multiple meeting forums, designing productive agendas for leadership team off-sites, sharing action items and follow-ups to key business owners, and a data model that ties time spent across the rhythm back to the T-Ads priorities.
Support evaluating new business opportunities, including assess industry trends and market opportunity, evaluate target customers, create business case, and map out a business plan.
Deliver on special projects as assigned, using a creative and strategic approach to scoping and solving across a diverse range of subject matter.
Also responsible for other Duties/Projects as assigned by business management as needed.
Lead a small team of high-performing Individual Contributors, all with strong generalist skillsets.
Education:
Bachelors Degree Finance, Economics, Engineering, Statistics or related field (Required)
Masters/Advanced Degree MBA – Finance, Strategy, Economics (Preferred)
Work Experience:
7-10 years Strategy and Problem Solving. Experience in framing complex problems, identifying key issues that impact business decisions and providing data driven recommendations.
7-10 years Financial modeling and Analytics. Experience in developing financial models and performing financial and operating analysis and reporting, including analyzing complex data
4-7 years Project management. Experience managing project independently, engaging and getting buy-in from stakeholders, crafting roadmaps and project plans.
2-4 years years of managing teams of 5 or more resources in direct reporting relationship in analytics, strategy, or project management organization.
Management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking experience preferred
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Quantitative Analytics
Advanced analytical and quantitative skills, particularly modeling; strong bias towards databased decision making.
Financial Planning
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