Sr. Manager, Business Planning

Descrição do cargo:

Responsabilidades:

• Support the long term strategic planning process with market insights to help facilitate the generation and prioritization of the business’ long term priorities
• Lead certain cross functional projects and initiatives and provide as needed support for ad hoc request from other lines of business and regional teams
• Help provide learning and development opportunities to licensing team – deal analysis, sales planning, workshops, case studies, etc.
• Create compelling, persuasive presentation materials to communicate key learnings and recommendations to senior level executives
• Help identify and analyze new business opportunities and growth initiatives – new products, channel expansion, consumer segmentation, strategic partnerships
• Provide leadership and support for licensing teams to optimize deal renewals, assess prospective licensees and their business plans, evaluate marketing investments
• Drive improvements to the sales planning process – deal analysis, sales planning, prospecting and pitching, and deal negotiation
• Help improve licensing team efficiency and effectiveness – implement best practices, develop deal analysis frameworks, improve sales planning tools
• Collaborate with sales/marketing/creative teams to identify market trends and insights (consumers, products, and channels) and help formulate positioning and expansion strategies
• Coordinate internal stakeholders to review, evaluate and approve new business/partnership opportunities

Qualificações básicas:

• Graduate of a top Chinese or overseas university, preferably with a major in Business, Finance, or Economics.

• Experience in management consulting, corporate development or private equity
• Minimum 8 years of experience at multinational corporations, with exposure to business development and product development in China
• Consumer Industry background preferred
• Strong experience with modeling and analysis

• Project management skills and ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work in a fast paced environment
• Strong strategic thinker with excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to influence, persuade and engage in communication at all levels of the organization
• Phenomenal communication skills and articulation ability
• Excellent teamwork capabilities
• Creative and resourceful
• Ability to think pragmatically and ability to drive executions
• Superior verbal and written communications skills (both English and Mandarin Chinese), particularly the ability to develop cogent arguments and present them concisely to a range of stakeholders, including senior executives
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing business needs and priorities