Strategy and Business Development Senior Manager
About The Position
The Strategy and Business Development Senior Manager works in Verizon Business Group’s Product & Marketing Business Development team, supporting product strategy initiatives and driving strategic product partnerships across the VBG portfolio. The role collaborates with Product, Marketing, Pricing, Sales, Finance, Legal, and Engineering teams to shape and adapt long-term product and partner strategies. The position supports product and portfolio strategy, develops go-to-market plans from high-level product visions, and manages complex partnerships and agreements that enable the wireline and wireless portfolio roadmap. It drives negotiations and deals through internal and external communication, represents Verizon in executive meetings, and builds strong relationships with partners and cross-functional teams. The role also develops roadmaps and business cases, defines and assesses KPIs, evaluates new concepts, and drives internal alignment on escalations. This is a hybrid role with a defined work location, including work from home and at least three days per week in the office, as set by the manager. The scheduled workweek is 40 hours.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Six or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work and/or military experience or specialized training.
- Experience in product/platform strategy, partnerships, and/or technical work in B2B companies.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree, ideally an MBA.
- Strong written, oral, and presentation communication skills.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
- Partner-facing experience.
- Continuous learning mindset.
- Executive-level presentation skills, with an emphasis on storytelling and cross-functional alignment.
- Ability to communicate ideas compellingly and persuasively to varied audiences.
- Proven ability to manage deadlines in a highly complex, fast-paced environment.
- Experience leading teams, especially cross-functional teams, and independently and proactively executing multiple assignments.
- Experience mentoring team members, fostering their growth, and identifying skill-development areas.
- Experience working in an evolving, collaborative environment and cross-functionally with all levels of management, internally and externally.
- Experience developing strong working relationships inside and outside Verizon.
Responsibilities
- Support initiatives that drive product and portfolio strategy and market-leading roadmaps and capabilities for go-to-market success.
- Translate and operationalize high-level product visions into actionable go-to-market plans aligned with broader organizational strategy.
- Manage large, complex partnerships to secure deals for future products supporting the VBG wireline and wireless portfolio roadmap.
- Define, negotiate, and close complex product, distribution, marketing, and technology agreements with multiple partners.
- Drive complex deals to resolution through internal and external communications.
- Create documents that frame deal or partnership issues and drive them to completion.
- Represent Verizon in internal and external executive meetings.
- Work across product areas in VBG to secure deals that provide the best outcomes for Verizon.
- Collaborate with product management, product marketing, legal, finance, and engineering teams to negotiate deal terms and advocate internally on behalf of partners.
- Build strong relationships with external partners and cross-functional teams.
- Define KPIs and assess performance to support continuous improvement.
- Participate in business case development and presentations to align working teams.
- Develop and drive alignment on a multiyear roadmap.
- Test new ideas and concepts for feasibility and market potential.
- Drive escalations toward internal alignment.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Basic and supplemental life insurance.
- AD&D insurance.
- Identity theft protection.
- Pet insurance.
- Group home and auto insurance.
- Matched 401(k) savings plan.
- Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year.
- Up to 6 personal days per year.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Tuition assistance.
- Other incentives.
- New hires receive up to 15 vacation days per year, increasing with additional service.
- Potential premium pay, such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances, depending on the role.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
