Business Strategy Senior Manager

Cellco Partnership; Basking Ridge (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon Business Group is seeking a Senior Manager of Business Strategy to serve as a trusted advisor to VBG leadership, collaborating across stakeholders to shape long-term strategy, assess market opportunities, and optimize portfolio performance. You will build robust financial models, support board-level decision making, and lead cross-functional strategic initiatives.

The role emphasizes translating complex data into clear narratives for executives, driving capital allocation decisions, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work and/or military experience or specialized training.
• Experience with consulting and/or internal corporate strategy, with experience framing complex business problems, conducting strategic analysis, and driving high-impact initiatives.
• Experience with research and quantitative analysis, including solving complex, ambiguous, and analytically challenging problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop long-term strategies, evaluate market shifts and growth opportunities, optimize legacy portfolio performance, and refine GTM and commercial models.
• Drive rigorous analysis and structured problem-solving to inform Verizon Business Group leadership on high-impact projects.
• Lead financial modeling efforts to evaluate strategic fit and capital allocation.
• Translate corporate goals into actionable cross-functional plans across Product, GTM, Finance and Operations.

Skills

Strategic analysis

Financial modeling

P&L stewardship

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4+ years experience

MBA (preferred)

Job description

When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you'll be doing...

• As a Senior Manager of Business Strategy within Corporate Strategy, you will serve as a dedicated, trusted advisor to Verizon Business Group (VBG) leadership. In this role, you will collaborate with key stakeholders across VBG to develop long-term strategies, evaluate market shifts and growth opportunities, optimize legacy portfolio performance, and refine Go-To-Market (GTM) and commercial models.
• Through rigorous analysis and structured problem-solving, our team answers critical questions for Verizon's executive team, Board of Directors, and other key stakeholders. Driven by a focus on long-term value creation, you will focus on high-impact projects for the board and VBG executive leadership. This work will include deep market opportunity assessments, scenario planning, ecosystem analyses, and competitive modeling to guide capital allocation and strategic partnerships.
• Driving the strategy execution process and delivering to senior leadership the information they need to make some of the company's most pressing decisions.
• Shaping the future direction of VBG through development and analysis on areas of strategic interest, focusing on long-term growth and key market uncertainties while leveraging structured analytical techniques.
• Serving as a heavy quantitative engine for the team, leading complex financial modeling efforts to evaluate structural viability and strategic fit.
• Operating in a highly dynamic and agile environment, seamlessly pivoting between rapid, tactical evaluations and extensive, multi-phase strategic planning initiatives.
• Taking the lead in solving complex, strategic issues facing our business by demystifying complex concepts and data to present clear narratives and financial realities to executives and internal partners.
• Embracing an iterative approach to problem-solving, managing a varied portfolio of work that ranges from rapid-response, quick-turn assessments to extensive, deep-dive research projects.
• Assisting in the preparation of materials and architecting presentations for senior management and the Board of Directors.
• Managing and fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners across the business.
• Building, managing, and stress-testing complex financial models and dynamic business cases to assess the impacts various strategies and projects will have on Verizon's financials.
• Leading comprehensive build-buy-partner analyses to evaluate M&A opportunities, joint ventures, and strategic investments, determining deal feasibility, potential returns, and optimal deal structure.
• Scaling the depth of your analysis to the business need, delivering both high-level, directional insights to guide immediate executive decisions, as well as highly detailed, robust financial models for complex structural evaluations.
• Translating corporate goals into actionable, cross-functional operational blueprints across Product, Go-To-Market, Finance, and Operations.

What we're looking for...

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience with consulting and/or internal corporate strategy, with experience framing complex business problems, conducting strategic analysis, and driving high-impact initiatives.
• Experience with research and quantitative analysis, including solving complex, ambiguous, and analytically challenging problems.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• MBA or advanced degree in a quantitative/financial field.
• Experience with B2B strategy.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to synthesize complex, ambiguous data into clear narratives, frame issues strategically, and target the message based on the audience.
• Proven financial acumen with experience driving P&L stewardship, optimizing capital allocation, and translating complex financial metrics into strategic business value.
• Experience managing NDA projects.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-impact strategic initiatives, driving growth, optimizing performance, and displaying strong intellectual curiosity and attention to detail.
• Agility and resilience in a dynamic environment, with a demonstrated ability to flexibly adj