Head of Strategy - London, United Kingdom - Virgin

Description

This role will support the Director of Strategy & Corporate Development in setting and executing our corporate strategy priorities across Virgin Group and Virgin Red. The role will lead and support on a wide variety of strategy and commercial projects as well as playing a key part in formulating and evaluating the key strategic direction for the group and the loyalty business.

You will provide support and coordination for a wide spectrum of strategy projects across the group, lead and/or support portfolio growth and optimisation projects and set strategic direction for corporate development efforts. For Virgin Red, you will work on the development and refinement of its strategic plans to ensure continued successful growth and profitability.

Our Virgin Family

Join the Virgin Group – a diverse collective driving change, enhancing customer experience, and having a blast. We're daring, disrupting industries from finance to space, united as part of the Virgin Family.

This role spans across our Virgin Red and Virgin Group entities.

Virgin Red rewards customers who live the Virgin lifestyle. As the Virgin network hub, we foster deeper customer understanding, opening doors for partners. Bold, distinctive, customer-centric – that's Virgin Red.

Virgin Group, is the heart of Virgin and nurtures the brand globally. Our diverse, 180-strong team in London and New York, supports every facet of the Virgin empire, including Virgin Unite, our entrepreneurial foundation, and Virgin Start-Up, empowering UK entrepreneurs.

Our mission:

To create a thriving world through entrepreneurial initiatives. Our work revolves around:

• Incubating courageous collectives
• Backing entrepreneurial solutions
• Convening purposeful communities
• Challenging unacceptable issues

Tell me more

• Supporting the Director of Strategy & Corporate development with:
• Delivery against our global group strategies, plans and budgets including involvement in strategy and planning exercises for Virgin Group during annual planning/budget cycles.
• Taking full ownership of various strategic and operational projects from initial scopingthrough to communicating findings and recommendations. Pushing projects forward to completion.
• A number of Virgin-branded corporate development projects including working closely with the Virgin Red, Investment, Commercial and Brand teams.
• Presenting to the Investment team and senior Virgin Group leadership team(s) on the progress of origination efforts and any specific investment/licensing opportunities.
• Developing the long-term vision for the Virgin Red business,getting buy-in for the overarching strategy and various strategic projects from internal and external stakeholders. Working effectively in a matrixed organisational structure with a diverse range of stakeholders across the business to articulate the strategy and work together with the business to execute it.
• Identifying and pursuing opportunities for organic and inorganic growth.Working collaboratively across functions to gather information, data and insights to support decision making.
• Conducting market and competitive scans, positioning analysis and evaluations to ensure external dynamics are reflected and considered in decision-making for the business.
• Supporting Business Development and Partnerteams in the definition and articulation of strategic value add of Virgin Red to partner businesses across the suite of partner offerings.
• Supporting the Data & Innovation and Technology teams to assess in-house incubation and innovation initiatives
• Preparing strategy documents for senior internal and external stakeholders including VR committees, Red Board and V team Board.

What you'll need

• Experience in strategy consulting and ideally a corporate development/strategy role with evidence of strategy, origination, analysis and execution of new business/investment opportunities. Time spent in an entrepreneurial environment also highly valued.
• Strategy & planning skills: ability to use multiple internal and external inputs and stimuli in order to create a clear and coherent set of strategies and plans that can be executed against. Able to translate strategy into actions with ability identify interdependencies and mitigate risks.
• Analytical skills: Creative and resourceful problem-solving skills. Structured analysis and financial modelling approach, and guides team through such analysis.
• Execution skills: Evidence of executing complex corporate development, strategic and/or investment projects, with evidence of strong process management.
• Commercial judgement and skills: Evidence of working on complex commercial negotiations, balancing brand/qualitative and financial/quantitative objectives to achieve an optimal outcome.
• Self-starter, inquisitive and highly motivated, does not hesitate to "roll up their sleeves" to get job done.
• Intellectually curious. Strives to understand the essence of a situation, an industry or a business problem and assess impact of pertinent industry trends

The extra details

Role type: Permanent

Location: London hub & your home space
Salary: Competitive

Working hours: Full time - We embrace flexible working. Let us know what hours empower you to be at your best both professionally and personally, we'll try to find a perfect match for you and us.

Benefits: Dive into a fast-paced, evolving workspace, where your hard work and dedication is rewarded. Fancy unlimited holidays and weekly yoga? That's the Virgin way. We champion inclusion, wellbeing, and purposeful points strategies. Further benefits include flexible working, healthcare, dental schemes, pension contributions and an employee rewards scheme.

Closing date: 9th May 2024

Some of the attributes that define a Virgin person just can't be quantified in words. We pride ourselves on welcoming people from all walks of life, with all sorts of skill sets. Most recently, we successfully campaigned to add 'Dyslexic Thinking' as a skill on LinkedIn. Any uniqueness is a strength and will be considered an asset to our workforce. If there is something you would like us to consider, to tailor the hiring process to the way you work best, please don't hesitate to let us know.

Excited to make each day rewarding? We'd love to learn more about you