Sr Associate Strategy Operations

Why This Role Is Valuable

The Strategic Initiatives team is responsible for facilitating strategic and business planning processes delivering and managing a broad portfolio of strategic projects providing regional and global transformation management services ensuring operational quality and compliance and continuously improving operational performance to meet the evolving needs of partners and stakeholders. This role will work broadly across the organization enabling the effective delivery of the organizations value proposition and transformation agenda.

The Senior Associate will conduct research and analysis develop hypothesis based and data driven recommendations to business challenges develop and implement operating model enhancements manage and deliver projects to support the highimpact strategic priorities drive efficiency consistency and speed in operations and develop socialization materials for executive leaders creating value for Blackstone portfolio companies and Revantage. This position is based out of Revantages headquarters in Chicago IL or Dallas TX.

How You Add Value

Strategic Initiatives:

• Strategic planning: Assist in strategic planning processes and the development of strategic plans business cases and roadmaps by conducting market research analyzing industry trends market dynamics and customer needs

• Operating model enhancements: Identify opportunities to streamline processes improve efficiency and optimize resources across the platform by collecting analyzing and synthesizing data supporting process reviews benchmarking and performance analysis to identify areas of cost savings and operational improvements

Transformation Management:

• Operational Planning: Collaborate with functional leaders to develop and optimize business plans and operational strategies that align to company vision goals and success measures

• Portfolio Management: Support the portfolio management life cycle from demand management prioritization project to results management and reporting

• Transformation Management: Establish and manage governance structures and mechanisms to provide oversight and accountability for transformation initiatives

• Benchmarking: Identify leading practices and trends applying insights to enhance the organizations approach and methodologies

Operations:

• Business Partner management: Support partner lifecycle management to include partner onboarding and offboarding strategy and supporting processes and operational support and infrastructure to improve partner experience

• Offering management: Support the lifecycle of service offerings from initial ideation and value proposition development through launch delivery and management of offering catalogs and underlying collateral

• Performance measurement: Manage data collection verification and report production for inplace offering performance measurement and monthly management reporting

• Offshore delivery center management: Support centralized management of offshore delivery center and support development of thought leadership accelerators and repeatable processes to guide partners in developing their offshoring strategies

Platform & Business Support:

• Executive presence: Demonstrate discretion and professionalism when working on sensitive business and organizational issues manage ambiguity and propose workable solutions to challenging problems

• Decision making: Develop storyboards and analytical frameworks synthesize findings and identify key insights from analysis of data and qualitative insights

• Project management: Support project planning and of business plans and initiatives by managing timelines deliverables and stakeholder communications effectively

• Change management: Develop change management plans communicate changes effectively to stakeholders and support the implementation process to ensure successful

• Stakeholder collaboration: Collaborate with Revantage leadership to develop and optimize business strategies that align with company vision goals and success measures and design operating model transformation initiatives

• Employee engagement: Collaborate with the People & Culture team on hiring initiatives employee engagement initiatives and communication continue to make Revantage a great place to work

What You Bring To The Role

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in business engineering finance or technology

• Minimum 3 years of demonstrated success and experience in Management/Strategy Consulting Corporate Strategy or Business Transformation Corporate Finance or Investment Banking

• Ability to think creatively and outside the box to simplify complex metrics and information into easytounderstand concepts and senior executive messaging

• Actionoriented creative strategic thinking that identifies and connects opportunities sees gaps and finds points of connectivity across the enterprise

• Courage in challenging thinking and pushing the collective toward better outcomes to improve the health of the business

• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problemsolving skills

• Expert verbal and written communication skills developing presentations for a wide variety of audiences

• Demonstrated history of collaboration interpersonal and influencing skills

• Comfort in working effectively with people at all levels of an organization including Csuite

• Passion for enhancing team engagement and value proposition and building an inclusive equitable collaborative and fun work environment

• Bias for action ability to deal with ambiguity and natural perseverance to overcome obstacles and deliver outcomes when leading change

• Strong team player with ability to multitask and meet deadlines while thriving in a fastpaced work environment

• Outstanding record of professional and academic achievement

• Expert level proficiency in Microsoft office tools

Preferred:

• Shared Services Organization Management experience

• Proficiency with Collaboration Tools (e.g. SmartSheet Teams SharePoint etc.

• Proficiency with business intelligence tools