Director - Strategic Consulting

TIAA • New York, NY

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About The Position

Corporate Strategy & Planning – Strategic Consulting The Corporate Strategy & Planning team serves as TIAA’s internal strategy function, comprising three core capabilities: strategic consulting, competitive intelligence, and strategic planning. The Strategic Consulting role provides advice and thought leadership to senior TIAA executives, including the CEO and Executive Committee. This job mirrors the responsibilities of an engagement manager at a top-tier strategy firm, leading end-to-end engagement management of broad cross-functional internal teams, conducting interviews with internal clients, forming sophisticated hypotheses, designing and conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, synthesizing conclusions and insights into recommendations, and executing strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• 7+ Years Required; 9+ Years Preferred
• Prior experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or related analytical roles strongly preferred
• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work
• 7+ years of strategic and/or corporate consulting experience, leading strategy consulting engagements
• Must have independently managed end-to-end strategy consulting engagements for at least 2 years, ideally as an Engagement Manager, from problem structuring to work planning to final delivery
• Experience developing and presenting materials to C-suite and/or Board-level audiences. Measurable by frequency and seniority of stakeholder interactions in prior roles.
• Bachelor's degree
• Adaptability
• Business Development
• Consultative Communication
• Data-Based Decision Making
• Executive Presence
• Financial Modeling
• Market/Industry Dynamics
• Relationship Management
• Story Telling
• Strategic Thinking

Nice To Haves

• Previous consulting firm experience
• MBA preferred

Responsibilities

• Leads consulting engagements end-to-end including evaluation, advanced planning, analysis, solution development, and execution
• Provides advanced expertise to engagement teams in leading the identification, understanding, and framing of complex business problems and needs
• Develops complex analytical frameworks and project plans including financial models, resource allocation, and scenario analyses to support strategic recommendations
• Identifies and prioritizes strategic improvement opportunities across products and services, and creates recommendations and plans for implementation
• Prepares executive-level presentations for the Executive Committee and Board members to garner approval for strategic recommendations
• Manages performance of Corporate Strategy & Planning team through regular, timely feedback as well as the formal performance review process to ensure delivery of exceptional products, engagement, motivation, and development of junior staff
• Provides meaningful support to other Corporate Strategy & Planning teams to ensure highly integrated team collaboration
• Oversees Corporate Strategy & Planning’s operations (e.g., knowledge management, methodology, onboarding, AI) to ensure quality, service, efficiency, and cost-effective resource management

Benefits

• Our benefits include a superior retirement program and highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings that can help you achieve and maintain your best possible physical, emotional and financial well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees