eBay
Director, Corporate Strategy
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About the role
- We are responsible for setting the strategic direction of eBay: our ambition, where we play, and how we win in the market.
- The team is responsible for deeply understanding the needs of our core buyers and sellers and crafting the strategies that will differentiate eBay relative to our competitors.
- We work very closely with product, technology, and regional business teams to ensure the strategy is translated into action across the end-to-end customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop the strategies for eBay to differentiate itself in the market.
- This will include crafting the strategies, developing the key initiatives to support the strategies and working closely with key eBay constituencies to gain consensus.
- Develop content and topic expertise, as well as perspectives on issues important to eBay's strategy.
- Develop creative solutions to challenging business problems
- Work with the eBay line organization as needed to support mobilization and implementation of the business strategies.
- Develop insightful market intelligence about key industry trends (technology, competitors, consumers, regulatory, etc.) and advise the organization of their strategic implications.
- Drive business judgment, market understanding, problem solving, and fact-based analysis to identify, prioritize, structure, and solve challenging business problems.
- Strategy Development: Develop the strategies for eBay to differentiate itself in the market. This will include crafting the strategies, developing the key initiatives to support the strategies and working closely with key eBay constituencies to gain consensus.
- Thought leadership: Develop content and topic expertise, as well as perspectives on issues important to eBay's strategy. Structure problems. Develop creative solutions to challenging business problems
- Strategy Mobilization: Work with the eBay line organization as needed to support mobilization and implementation of the business strategies.
Requirements
- Strong executive presence and ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply.
- Comfort in reaching out and prioritizing cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment
- Outstanding analytical capabilities (quantitative and qualitative), ability to generate key insights
- Comfort in handling uncertainty
- Proven leader with at least 10 years of work experience - at least 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting firm at project management level are a must
- Expertise in technology, ideally in e-commerce, retail, payments, and/or consumer facing products is highly desirable
- Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day. Whether you're single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs. Including maternal & paternal leave, paid sabbatical, and plans to help ensure your financial security today and in the years ahead because we know feeling financially secure during your working years and through retirement is important.
- Here at eBay, we love creating opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn't just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do each and every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, you feel eBay is a place where, no matter who you are, you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about eBay's Diversity & Inclusion click here: https://www.ebayinc.com/company/diversity-inclusion/
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- Additional Details
- This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within eBay.
- eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility.
Nice to have
- Bachelors Degree required, MBA or equivalent preferred
Compensation
- Benefits are an essential part of your total compensation for the work you do every day.
Benefits
- Whether you're single, in a growing family, or nearing retirement, eBay offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefit programs to meet your needs.
Company info
- We are responsible for setting the strategic direction of eBay:
- our ambition, where we play, and how we win in the market.
- Our work can be divided into 3 main topics:
- we develop eBay Inc's strategy together with eBay's executives, we run strategic projects to solve key strategic issues supporting select executives at eBay, we closely monitor the competitive environment & trends.
- The opportunity
- The Director, Corporate Strategy is a senior leader who will lead several cross-functional projects consisting of 2-6 Strategy Associates, Managers, and Senior Managers.
- You will bring both process and content leadership to strategy projects and act as the point person between Strategy and cross-functional business teams.
- Within this role, you will have the ability to influence key elements of eBay's strategy and to help shape the strategic direction of eBay.
- The ideal candidate has a track record of making pragmatic, concrete recommendations with real world implementation experience.
- It is critical for the role that the candidate has strong analytic skills and is excellent in developing creative/ out-of-the-box and well-thought-out solutions for challenging business problems.
- Independently, lead cross-functional projects involving executive and senior partners from various part of the organization.
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