Director, Corporate Strategy

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About the team

We are responsible for setting the strategic direction of eBay: our ambition where we play and how we win in the market. The team is responsible for deeply understanding the needs of our core buyers and sellers and crafting the strategies that will differentiate eBay relative to our competitors. We work very closely with product technology and regional business teams to ensure the strategy is translated into action across the end-to-end customer experience. Our work can be divided into 3 main topics: we develop eBay Incs strategy together with eBays executives we run strategic projects to solve key strategic issues supporting select executives at eBay we closely monitor the competitive environment & trends.

The opportunity

The Director Corporate Strategy is a senior leader who will lead several cross-functional projects consisting of 2-6 Strategy Associates Managers and Senior Managers. You will bring both process and content leadership to strategy projects and act as the point person between Strategy and cross-functional business teams. Within this role you will have the ability to influence key elements of eBays strategy and to help shape the strategic direction of eBay. The ideal candidate has a track record of making pragmatic concrete recommendations with real world implementation experience. It is critical for the role that the candidate has strong analytic skills and is excellent in developing creative/ out-of-the-box and well-thought-out solutions for challenging business problems.

Role responsibilities:

• Strategy Development:Develop the strategies for eBay to differentiate itself in the market. This will include crafting the strategies developing the key initiatives to support the strategies and working closely with key eBay constituencies to gain consensus.
• Project leadership:Independently lead cross-functional projects involving executive and senior partners from various part of the organization.
• Thought leadership:Develop content and topic expertise as well as perspectives on issues important to eBays strategy. Structure problems. Develop creative solutions to challenging business problems
• Strategy Mobilization:Work with the eBay line organization as needed to support mobilization and implementation of the business strategies.
• Market and Competitive Analysis:Develop insightful market intelligence about key industry trends (technology competitors consumers regulatory etc.) and advise the organization of their strategic implications.
• Business Analytics:Drive business judgment market understanding problem solving and fact-based analysis to identify prioritize structure and solve challenging business problems.
• Team Leadership:Lead and mentor a driven strategy team in the development and execution of critical initiatives
• Communication:Develop storylines for presentations prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership
• Leading through uncertainty:Self-direct as well as manage resources on the strategy team and across the organization to deliver superior end-products in a dynamic industry and corporate environment

Job Requirements:

• Intellectual curiosity
• Excellence in structured thinking developing sensible creative solutions to challenging strategic business problems. Creativity and out of the box thinking that drives innovation. The ability to see around corners and connect the dots that enable business to proactively drive business
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply. Ease with executive-level interactions. Ability to create clear and simple storylines.
• Proven track record to lead and mentor a driven strategy team in the development and execution of key initiatives. Ability to lead empower and mentor project team members
• Comfort in reaching out and prioritizing cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment
• Outstanding analytical capabilities (quantitative and qualitative) ability to generate key insights
• Comfort in handling uncertainty
• Highly collaborative be fun and easy to work with!

Qualifications

• Proven leader with at least 10 years of work experience - at least 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting firm at project management level are a must
• Bachelors Degree required MBA or equivalent preferred
• Expertise in technology ideally in e-commerce retail payments and/or consumer facing products is highly desirable

Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether youre single in a growing family or nearing retirement eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave paid sabbatical and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.

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