Business Strategy Principal

FedEx Corporation; Memphis (TN); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Corporation seeks an experienced Strategy Lead to drive long-term objectives across major business units. You will evaluate strategic directions, develop rigorous analyses, and shape decisions with insights grounded in data and market trends.

Responsibilities include building frameworks for scenario planning, engaging with senior leadership, and guiding cross-functional initiatives. Requires strong communication, BI skills, and a track record in corporate strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field or related technical area.
• 7+ years of strategy, market analysis, and corporate development experience.
• Experience with data analytics, BI tools, and data modeling.
• Strong communication and presentation skills; stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation of strategic objectives and direction using data analytics.
• Develop complex business analyses and research methodologies.
• Create strategic frameworks and business scenario planning.
• Advise leadership with fact-based recommendations and actionable insights.
• Mentor teams and manage external consulting engagements.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Data analytics

BI tools

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

MS Office

SQL

Job description

This position will be hybrid in: Memphis, TN / Plano, TX / Pittsburgh, PA. Candidates must live within a commutable distance from Memphis, Plano, or Pittsburgh to be eligible for this role. Employees will be required to work at a FedEx office location up to several times per week.

Provides leadership in the evaluation of strategic objectives, formulation of strategic direction, and influences decision making based on assessment of business trends and data analytics.

Essential Functions

• Plans, organizes, and develops recommendations grounded in deep understanding of the business, industry and market trends, consumer behavior, customer segments, and competitive strategy.
• Predicts changes in the current market and summarizes insights from proprietary and third-party data and information to create distinctive insights.
• Develops and implements complex business analyses, manages business case development, and business-at-risk assessments. Develops research methodologies to understand key strategic issues, identifies data sources (internal and external) and develops complex opportunity models using statistical and business intelligence (BI) tools.
• Develops strategic frameworks and manages processes to build business scenarios using strategic thinking and decision science analysis.
• Provides a point of view on key strategic issues across major dimensions of the business – commercial, operations, customer segments, technology, etc.
• Engages with leadership teams/key stakeholders on identified priorities supported with clear fact based recommendations and provides actionable insights to leadership teams to recommend course of action.
• Provides thought leadership to cross-functional teams working on strategic initiatives and acts as an internal consultant to senior management.
• Takes responsibilities to manage external consulting engagements with industry experts and takes on coaching and mentoring roles.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative business field or closely related technical specialized field of study.

Minimum Experience

Seven (7) years related work experience.

Work experience in functions focused on strategy development, competitive, customer, and industry analysis, market research, analysis of product performance, and support of corporate development/strategic value assessment activities.

Experience of supporting strategic assessments that are transformational in nature.

More advanced degrees may offset experience requirements. A related Master’s Degree equals two (2) years experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Demonstrated business acumen including understanding the impact of technology trends on business.

Strong communication and presentation skills, problem structuring and problem solving skills.

Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including experience in databases, business intelligence (BI) tools, MS Office products and data modeling.

Strong human relations skills.

USA: $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo, CO: $8,007.29/mo - $17,393.61/mo, CA: $8,452.14/mo - $14,413.11/mo, NJ: $8,452.14/mo - $13,523.42/mo, OH & VT: $8,452.14/mo - $14,368.63/mo, MN: $8,452.14/mo - $16,637.36/mo, IL & NV: $8,452.14/mo - $17,393.61/mo, MD, NY & WA: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, MA: $8,896.99/mo - $18,149.85/mo, RI: $9,786.68/mo - $16,637.36/mo, CT: $9,786.68/mo - $17,393.61/mo, DC & HI: $10,231.53/mo - $17,393.61/mo, NYC: $10,231.53/mo - $18,149.85/mo

Pay Transparency

This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision, and dental insurance, retirement plans, and tuition reimbursement

Pay

US Pay Range: $8,007.29 - $14,413.11/month

Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability.

Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact [e-mail].

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• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act

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