Strategy & Transformation Associate

University of Miami•Miami, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategy & Transformation Associate (H) contributes to University of Miami’s (UM) and UHealth’s (UH) success by providing insight & analytical support for key strategy/strategic planning initiatives and plays an integral role in helping define the future of the enterprise and drive critical business initiatives through analysis and communication of data. The Strategy & Transformation Associate (H) independently drives progress, proactively identifies and executes actions to deliver valuable outcomes without explicit direction. The incumbent helps to manage the project lifecycle for projects – including idea generation, initiative scoping & standup, approach and workplan development, analysis on priority topics, financial modeling, presentation development / delivery, and follow-through to value delivery. The incumbent provides recommendations with data-based insights and influences a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Consulting and/or investment banking experience.
Ability to analyze multiple large and complex financial, operational, and strategic data sets and sources.
Excellent quantitative and qualitative assessment skills.
The ability to distill analytical findings into actionable insights.
Excellent presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Acts as a strategic consultant/advisor for the broader UM/UHealth enterprise.
Supports, leads, and influences the formulation and delivery of strategic projects and initiatives. Prepares project design and analytics approach to work for review and input by strategy leadership. Manages multiple work streams/projects efficiently. Develops strategic objectives and associated metrics to allow a ‘strategic view’ of organizational or specific initiative progress.
Leverages knowledge, skills and relationships to develop frameworks, conduct analysis, generate insights, and communicate those insights to support / influence strategy and transformation (S&T) agenda.
Manages, manipulates, and analyzes multiple large and complex financial, operational, and strategic data sets and sources. Undertakes quantitative and qualitative assessments, and conducts primary research, to support the development of evidence-based strategy. Distills analytical findings into actionable insights.
Synthesizes analytics and key insights into presentation-ready documents. Presents findings to S&T team & mid-level stakeholder groups; Develops presentations that will be presented to large audiences, including UM/UHealth’s executive leadership team.
Develops and maintains an understanding of strategic issues facing UM/UHealth through analyzing trends, horizon scanning, and building relationships with colleagues across the organization.
Collaborates and builds rapports with all levels of the organization ensuring a positive image is conveyed to internal and external partners and stakeholders.
Solicits and incorporates feedback effectively; understands different perspectives within the organization.
Utilizes internal and external software/tools to gather and extract data and applications (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI, others) to interpret, analyze, and visualize high level data.
Demonstrates high emotional intelligence with deftness in navigating complex organizations with multiple stakeholders.
Contributes to team’s work and culture, supports colleagues, builds collective capabilities of S&T team, and plays a vocal part in team meetings.
Manages, supervises, and develops interns as assigned.
Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.