Executive Director, Corporate Development & Enterprise Strategy

Trustmark • Lake Forest, IL

4d • $136,933 - $204,463

About The Position

We are looking for an Executive Director, Corporate Development & Enterprise Strategy at Trustmark. Lead the development of enterprise and business unit strategies. As part of driving a transformational growth agenda, this may include developing near and long-range business strategy, developing market defining partnerships, and M&A strategies, as well as collaboration in strategy and M&A execution. This role will drive market and product development as well as define new segments within the employee benefits ecosystem.

Requirements

• Bachelors or master’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of relevant professional work experience (strategy consulting, M&A, and/or strategy development within an organization)
• Demonstrated success analyzing internal/external partners
• Relentless curiosity and possess a passion to learn new concepts and create innovative analyses to identify opportunities
• Demonstrated strengths in and passion for extracting insights from data and converting ideas to action
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing industry, tolerate ambiguity, and demonstrated disruptive thinking
• Demonstrated problem-solving leadership with limited oversight
• High degree of motivation to self-start, and go above and beyond the task at hand
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Highly collaborative team player able to lead and work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus

Nice To Haves

• Crafting strategies based on how consumers are engaging in the insurance journey (touching at least one of provider, payor, or external technology partner), to reveal how products/brands can better connect with their consumers
• Strong technology and data analytics acumen
• Strong executive presence

Responsibilities

• Own and drive strategic analysis on existing and new products and businesses, including quant research and analysis, secondary/primary competitive research, synthesis, and making strategic recommendations
• Build effective narratives that translate to a variety of audiences (e.g., executives, senior leaders, peers, third-party partners) to support alignment of key growth priorities, strategic recommendations, and M&A deal hypothesis
• Develop business cases, including business model evaluation, build, borrow, buy analyses, market sizing, and investment requirements
• Support, and/or own and drive aspects of M&A process/activities in support of growth strategy
• Evaluate pipeline of innovations in employee benefits and start-ups for acquisition or partnership; seek and evaluate possible business, technology, and/or delivery partner relationships to support growth objectives

Benefits

• Health/dental/vision
• life insurance
• FSA and HSA
• 401(k) plan
• Employee Assistant Program
• Back-up Care for Children, Adults and Elders
• many health and wellness initiatives
• Wellness program that enables employees to participate in health initiatives to reduce their insurance premiums

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Associate degree