Director, Strategy & Global Strategic Initiatives
Teradata

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Director, Strategy & Global Strategic Initiatives

Job Summary

The Director, Strategy and Strategic Initiatives is a key leadership position in our Corporate Strategy organization. This role provides active direction to achieve Teradata's corporate strategy through a variety of means including, but not limited to - advising on strategic opportunities and alignment, strategic planning, market and competitive research, driving cross-functional execution.

This leader will work with the Strategy leadership team (LT) to identify, diagnose and assess areas across the company where there is a need to define or align strategy, address blockers (process, planning, structure, etc.) or capture unique opportunities. They will help form and lead cross functional teams to address strategic questions, diagnose issues, build plans, ultimately enabling Teradata to fully align to corporate strategy and direction, and more aggressively execute to realize success.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Facilitate functional and regional strategic plans, ensuring alignment to corporate strategy and activities
• Drive, direct, monitor and contribute to critical strategic initiatives
• Accountable to key stakeholders for initiative identification, set up, monitoring and reporting of success metrics
• Tackle ambiguous challenges by structuring and framing problems, executing research as needed to collect relevant data, and preparing an assessment of potential go-forward options
• Lead cross functional teams in tackling and resolving key initiatives or projects that are critical to strategy success, including addressing blockers to strategy attainment
• Influence key stakeholders and is a strategic advisor on key problem areas of focus to enable Teradata's strategy
• Provide oversight and guidance to projects and actions of high importance
• Ability to balance and influence multiple competing priorities and individuals
• Foresee and address/mitigate organizational risks and takes to action to prevent.
• Create and maintain cross-organizational relationships to enable strategy team success

Minimum Requirements & Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree or 15+ years of equivalent experience; MBA degree preferred
• Demonstrated passion and depth of understanding for technology solutions
• Strategic thinker who can tackle ambiguous problems, bring definition and clarity to define a go-forward strategy, as well as translate strategy into company-wide operational initiatives
• Detailed and process oriented; with ability to work on both strategic and tactical initiatives
• Proven ability to quickly build rapport and credibility with multiple stakeholders across the organization at every level
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), with the ability to actively listen, influence, negotiate and coach
• Proven project and time management skills with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to balance and influence multiple competing priorities
• Demonstrate personal and professional values consistent with Teradata's values

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