Future Business Operations Strategy Director
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- 6625 Excellence Way, Plano, TX, USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field. MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
- 12+ years of experience in progressive experience in corporate strategy, corporate development, business development, strategic finance, or management consulting.
- Demonstrated experience developing and evaluating new business opportunities, including market analysis, due diligence, and financial/operational modeling.
- Experience leading or driving initiatives across multiple business units or lines of business in a large, matrixed organization.
- Track record of designing new business models and taking them to market, from initial concept through launch.
- Familiarity with alternative business models such as leasing, installment financing, MVNO, or subscription-based revenue structures is a strong plus.
- Strong financial and business acumen; comfortable building and defending business cases and ROI models.
- Prior people-management experience; experience building or scaling a new team or function is a strong plus.
- Excellent communication & presentation skills with ability to influence senior leadership.
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to translate market/competitive analysis into actionable recommendations.
Full description
Position Summary
Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), the U.S. Sales and Marketing subsidiary, is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances, enterprise solutions and networks systems. For more than four decades, Samsung has driven innovation, economic growth and workforce opportunity across the United States—investing over $100 billion and employing more than 20,000 people nationwide. By integrating our large portfolio of products, services and AI technology, we’re creating smarter, sustainable and more connected experiences that empower people to live better. SEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. To learn more, visit Samsung.com. For the latest news, visit news.samsung.com/us.
The Future Business Operations Strategy Director is a newly created role responsible for building and leading a high-impact team dedicated to new business growth and strategic execution. This leader will own the team's portfolio of new business opportunities, serve as the primary connective tissue between Finance, Lines of Business (LOB) leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure the team stays focused on the initiatives with the greatest potential impact to the enterprise.
This is a build role: the successful candidate will stand up a newly funded function from the ground up defining ways of working, hiring and developing a small team, and establishing the credibility and executive relationships needed for the function to succeed.Role and ResponsibilitiesRoles & Responsibility:
- Own and prioritize the team's overall portfolio of new business opportunities, ensuring focus stays on the highest-impact initiatives.
- Lead and develop team members, build the operating rhythms, tools, and ways of working for the newly established function.
- Establish regular cadence with LOB leaders to identify and align on top strategic priorities, ensuring the team's focus reflects the highest-impact needs across the organization
- Direct market analysis and competitive benchmarking to identify new business model opportunities.
- Guide the team's surfacing and initial screening of new business channels, areas, and models worth pursuing.
- Proactively monitor competitive landscape and emerging business models (e.g., financing, leasing, new channel strategies), translating insights into concrete opportunity recommendations for leadership.
- Oversee due diligence and the development of financial and operational models for prospective new business opportunities.
- Partner closely with the Finance organization early in the process to align business models, assumptions, and ROI expectations before opportunities advance.
- Drive strategic initiatives that require collaboration across multiple lines of business to develop and execute (for example: new leasing models, credit card / financing product differentiation, and similar cross-LOB opportunities).