Senior Strategy Manager

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Job Description

The role of the Senior Strategy Manager includes a variety of responsibilities, such as researching long-term innovative technology, leading initiatives to take advantage of strategic opportunities, and defining the short-term change agenda necessary for effective strategy implementation. This position will play a key role in shaping the future of the airport.

The role holder should address problems with a logical and analytical approach. They will manage the entire project lifecycle, from framing the question and analyzing insights and data, to providing and presenting strategic options and gaining support for the preferred approach.

Collaboration with stakeholders and leading cross-functional teams in developing comprehensive business strategies will be essential. Success in this role requires a strong strategic and analytical orientation, excellent communication skills, and a collaborative nature with the ability to build lasting relationships.

This role demands a mix of technical and interpersonal skills, especially the ability to effectively "story tell". Vision, energy, enthusiasm, and focus are required, along with contextual sensitivity and the ability to influence across a wide range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring and describing our strategic context (market, competitors, customers) in order to partner with the Executive team and senior leader to set the strategic direction for Heathrow.
• Creating alignment between the corporate strategy and functional strategies through the development of meaningful working relationships with key strategic people.
• Driving the successful execution of the strategy though strong communication, including preparing Board and company-wide presentations, as well as close collaboration with Finance and PMO to define and deliver the change agenda.
• Steering multi-disciplinary teams from around the business, working to define strategies and drive execution of complex, cross-functional and high impact initiatives.
• Executing complex strategic modelling and discovering, analysing and interpreting trends or patterns in complex data sets to performs strategic analysis and research.
• Providing support and guidance to analysts within the team, including direct line management of strategy analysts where required.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience within corporate strategy, simplifying and solving complex and ambiguous problems.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills coupled with the ability to approach the solutions creatively.
• Excellent written and oral communication, to interact and influence credibly and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including senior management.
• Confident with Excel and PowerPoint
• At ease working with teams of internal and external stakeholders - open, honest & collaborative style.

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About Us

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you'll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there's no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow's Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With four diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

About the Team

There's no place like Heathrow when it comes to the scale of our ambitions. Our Strategy team has a key role to play in both our present and our future, as we drive growth, continue to develop our iconic airport and lead the way in defining the future of aviation.

Joining a close- knit team using state-of-the-art tools and techniques, you'll help deliver high quality analysis and leadership for our business. Building relationships across complex partner groups, you'll influence external policies and simplify core business processes - always driving excellent decision making.