Job Description

Job Description
The Strategy & Innovation team works like an internal consulting group partnering closely with corporate, business unit and functional leadership to solve business challenges and inform decision-making in the most critical, high impact areas of the business from corporate/business unit strategy to digital roadmap to operational and organizational effectiveness to business process redesign.

In this high impact, highly visible role, you will help shape ABMs vision and short- and long-term strategy & innovation agenda; and help translate both into clear direction for the business units and functions. This position presents a unique opportunity to play a key role in supporting ABMs most transformative projects.

The Internal Consultant reports to ABMs SVP, Strategy & Innovation and presents a unique opportunity to work in close proximity to senior ABM leadership.

Essential Functions

* Provide strategic analysis and insights to drive the strategic planning process and the evolution of a short- and long-term strategic plan.
* You will quickly assess the state of the business, learn the key economic drivers with solid analytical capabilities, and support the SVP to formulate a compelling strategic plan working alongside functions and business units.
* Support high priority, high impact strategic, digital/innovation, operational and organizational projects.
* You will support specific projects including structuring the questions to address, organizing the work, managing resources, conducting analyses, synthesizing findings, and developing recommendations.
* Develop deep customer, industry, market and competitive insights.
* You will conduct ongoing assessments of the industry and competitive landscape; identify key trends impacting the business; and characterize associated opportunities for growth and/or risks.
* Establishing relationships and interfacing with cross-functional/business unit teams to achieve goals and desired outcomes.
* You will work closely with functional and business unit leadership and, importantly, field-level operators to ensure all initiatives deliver practical, pragmatic and fully operational actions.
* Contributing to the development/coordination of presentations, communications, planning materials and other strategy-related documents that are both internally and externally impacting.
* You will utilize key capabilities in both written and verbal communication to convey various aspects of each initiative.

Minimum Requirements

Education, Required Skills & Competencies

* MBA preferred. Bachelors degree with demonstrated academic excellence, ideally in a discipline such as business, economics, engineering, marketing, or mathematics required.
* 2-5+ years of experience with a strategy/management consulting firm, strategic planning/corporate strategy group, investment banking or private equity/venture capital firm.
* Demonstrate excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
* Strong quantitative and analytic skills required.
* Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Self-starter with an intellectual curiosity and teamwork capabilities.
* Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
* Able to work autonomously and be comfortable with ambiguity.
* Accountability to take full ownership for everything you do.
* Focused on delivering high quality and timely deliverables with a positive approach towards the work.
* Hunger for continuous improvement and a desire to be challenged.
* Collaborative, work well within a small, high-performing team.
* Travel required 10-25% (depending on location).