Director, Strategic Planning

Join Western Union as Director, Strategic Planning and have a significant impact on key corporate strategies that will drive growth across a large global organization. The ideal candidate has a history of being a solid strategic thinker, a track record of delivering within aggressive timelines, and demonstrated experience in working with, and influencing, cross-functional teams to deliver strategic recommendations.

Requirements

• Take a leadership role in building and expanding Western Union's corporate strategy and driving our strategic planning processes.
• Identify opportunities in existing businesses and/or assess new business opportunities, with a focus on top and bottom-line improvements.
• Assess market, consumer, and competitive research and analyses (working with research teams) to create a foundation of insights to inform strategies.
• Build strategic rationale to justify and socialize new opportunities.
• Create clear, structured strategic recommendations, communicated through concise storytelling that can be presented to C-level company executives.
• Project manage key strategic initiatives through the development of work plans that define cross-functional team roles and responsibilities and timelines to execute.
• Develop metric-driven business cases to quantify the investment and potential opportunity of new strategic initiatives and service offerings.
• Manage relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute strategic initiatives and service offerings.
• Be a thought leader and engage, influence, and become a partner to our senior executives across business lines and regions.

Benefits

• Short-term incentives
• Multiple health insurance options
• Accident and life insurance
• Access to best-in-class development platforms
• Family First Program
• Flexible Time off
• Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Parental Leave