Director, Corporate Strategy

Responsibilities

• Help develop and support the enterprise corporate strategy:
• Partner with the VP, Corporate Strategy, to develop and refresh the enterprise strategic roadmap
• Synthesize and evaluate business and function strategies, and analyze the enterprise-level impact
• Continuously engage business unit leadership teams to understand priorities, challenges, and implications to strategy
• Advocate and message the corporate strategy to business units
• Lead interviews with stakeholders to understand trends, priorities, and issues to be addressed
• Lead strategy setting exercises, including strategic reviews and scenario planning
• Shape company-wide strategy communications and help cascade the strategy through the organization
• Focus on the firm's most pressing strategic & growth objectives:
• Provide rigorous analysis and insights to guide decision-making on near-term and long-term opportunities
• Partner with senior leaders to identify, refine, and prioritize the firm's highest-impact strategic and growth initiatives
• Translate complex strategic issues into clear, actionable recommendations for executive stakeholders
• Ensure alignment of cross-functional efforts to accelerate progress on priority initiatives and measure outcomes against defined objectives
• Lead market & competitive intelligence:
• Support research engagements to develop AssetMark's position on long-term strategic issues and opportunities
• Gather and report intel on competition and market trends in support of our strategic choices, directly to the senior leadership team
• Analyze and communicate how industry news and trends affect AssetMar
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Being entrepreneurial and self-directed - able to take a conceptual business challenge from an initial set of facts and hypotheses to real, practical solutions
• Working closely with senior business leaders as a trusted advisor
• Being intellectually curious and interested in the future of financial services and shaping an industry through one of its major stakeholders
• Managing complexity and leading multiple projects with an unrelenting focus and prioritization
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills for both internal and external audiences
• Exceptional collaboration, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
• Project-oriented and able to quickly adapt to changing priorities and responsibilities
• Demonstrates a commitment to fact-based dialogue; willing to push thinking toward better outcomes
• Success in developing or being part of high-performing teams and creating alignment
• Education & Experience:
• Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of 8 to 12+ years of relevant experience with requisite competencies in corporate strategy, finance, transformations, or business development.
• Management consulting experience preferred
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US to be considered. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
• Who We Are & What We Offer:
• We are AssetMark, a company on the move, shaping the future of financial services. Growth is in our DNA. Every day, we combine

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Additional Information

Job Description: The Job/What You'll Do: The Corporate Strategy Team leads the strategic ideation, implementation, and execution support for our business and culture transformation in order for us to meet our strategic priorities and to create sustainable competitive advantage over the long term. The Corporate Strategy team partners directly with the CEO, Executive Committee (EC) members, and Functional leaders to help solve the most important and complex questions and challenges facing AssetMark. The team focuses on enterprise issues, including strategy, growth initiatives, market testing, and adoption. The individual in this role will report directly to the VP, Corporate Strategy, and will partner with Business / Functional Leaders, Corporate Development, Finance, and a broader set of stakeholders to support various strategic initiatives. This is a full-time position. We will only consider candidates for this position who can accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our office locations in Charlotte, NC, Chicago, IL or Concord, CA.

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