Corporate Strategy Manager, North America

BlueScope•Kansas City, MO

23d

About The Position

For over 100 years, BlueScope continues to build on our reputation of quality brands and products, leading technology and a customer-first spirit. Through our global brands, we are one of the largest manufacturers of building solutions in the world. Our diverse, bright and inspired workforce is committed to bettering the communities we serve through breakthrough thinking and innovations. Your goals, ideas and perspective can help shape our future – we look forward to hearing them! With 14,000 people across 18 countries, BlueScope (ASX: BSL) is a leading international supplier of steel products and solutions for building and construction markets. Australia’s largest manufacturer, BlueScope’s portfolio of brands includes COLORBOND®, ZINCALUME® and TRUECORE® steels and the LYSAGHT® range of building products. Steel plays a critical role in sustainable development. To BlueScope, sustainability means developing manufacturing and selling steel products and solutions in a way that provides for a sustainable future, with a focus on continuous improvement, adopting new operating methods and anticipating new products for the future. The Corporate Strategy Consultant, North America will report to the VP of Strategy. This individual will work closely with all of BlueScope’s North American business units on key initiatives including, growth and business development opportunities, and short- and long-term regional and segment strategies that will contribute to accelerating the global organization’s overall market position. Additionally, this role will provide key regional market and customer insights and facilitate segment and regional strategy preparation. SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES The Corporate Strategy Consultant, North America will work on a range of strategic initiatives and projects across the BlueScope global portfolio, with a focus on North America. These projects include growth strategies, turnaround projects; major capital investment projects, M&A identification and assessment of projects, and overall corporate strategy. This person is expected to closely monitor developments in the up, mid, and downstream value chain, including regulatory changes, innovations, business model disruptions, sustainability trends, opportunities for industry consolidation and key customer trends. The person will also work closely with segment leaders globally and key corporate executives.

Requirements

The ideal candidate should possess a combination of strategic consulting and industry experience.
Thorough understanding of North America as a market, key trends in the region, etc. (global knowledge and experience is a plus).
Ability to network and engage with senior executives globally and align objectives and programs.
Excellent analytical, influencing and communication skills.
Must be equally comfortable presenting to board as well as frontline management levels and demonstrate a data / facts / insights – based approach to presenting strategies and plans.
Intellectually curious and able to think through complex issues and simplify them.
Self-starter with desire and ability to work independently and high degree of comfort with ambiguity.
Team player, influencer and pragmatic style a must.
Culturally comfortable in a global multi-national organization with the ability to work easily in a matrixed organization structure.
Ability and desire to travel ~25-50% of the time particularly in the first 6 months as the individual builds relationships and business knowledge.
5+ years of strategy, investment banking, business development or management consulting experience.

Nice To Haves

MBA strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Supporting the organizational purpose, long-term objectives and developing and managing strategic themes.
Supporting global portfolio recommendations / decisions.
Identifying new growth opportunities and potential adjacencies for BlueScope North America.
Supporting strategic vision for North America across all business units.
Establishing understanding of existing and future customer needs and feasibility of translating market needs into strategic opportunities.
Working with the region to help develop regional strategies – growth, business optimization, market development, climate change approach.
Leading data gathering, analysis and market insight generation to support growth opportunity identification and evaluation.
Building and maintaining financial valuation models to assess M&A and capital investment projects.
Mapping and monitoring the North American market across the value chain (including key competitors, customer strategies and moves, e.g., investments, partnerships, M&A.
Providing internal analysis of strategic issues related to business performance, including business performance analysis and internal and external benchmarking.