Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d)

NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc.; Virginia; Remote; USD 127,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

401k retirement plan

Remote work stipend

Job summary

NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Strategy Specialist to translate strategic intent into actionable capabilities.

This hands-on role collaborates across commercial, portfolio, product, and Go‑to‑Market initiatives, guiding problem definition, analysis, and execution with senior leadership support. The successful candidate will design pragmatic operating models, drive mobilization plans, and deliver measurable business value while leveraging emerging technologies

Qualifications

• MBA or equivalent business experience required.
• Proven track record in strategy execution and transformation.
• Experience working with senior leaders across functions.

Responsibilities

• Strategic problem framing, assessment, and decision support from ambiguity to recommendations.
• Apply commercial and strategic judgment to portfolio, product, GTM, and operating-model questions.
• Shape current and future operating models across people, processes, governance, data, and technology roles.
• Convert recommendations into mobilization plans with sequencing, ownership, dependencies, governance, and measures.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and communicate complex issues clearly.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the Strategy Realization Office with reusable assets.
• Use AI, data, and digital tools to improve research, synthesis, and delivery quality.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Structured problem-solving

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Education

MBA

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Make an impact at NTT Global Data Centers Join NTT Global Data Centers and be part of a team that drives innovation and sustainability in the digital world. With over 150 data centers across more than 20 countries globally, we offer unparalleled opportunities to work on cutting‑edge technology and transformative projects. Experience a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive workplace where your ideas are valued, and your growth is supported.

Your role at a glance

The Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d), is a senior individual contributor within the Strategy Realization Office (SRO) who combines business strategy, commercial judgment, operating model design, and technology‑enabled innovation to help GDC leaders translate complex business challenges into clear decisions, executable change, and measurable outcomes. As a business‑led transformation practitioner, the role focuses on turning strategic intent and emerging technology opportunities into practical, scalable capabilities that create tangible business value. Working across commercial, portfolio, product, go‑to‑market, organizational, operating model, and transformation initiatives, the Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d), applies structured problem solving, evidence‑based analysis, stakeholder influence, and hands‑on execution to guide work from problem definition through recommendation, mobilization, and execution. The role partners with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities, improve decision quality, challenge ineffective processes, and accelerate organizational performance. This position is critical to scaling the Strategy Realization Office as a repeatable enterprise capability. The successful candidate independently structures ambiguous business problems, builds alignment across diverse stakeholders, and remains closely connected to execution to ensure recommendations translate into action and results. They are commercially minded, technically curious, and focused on business outcomes rather than technology for its own sake. Beyond project delivery, the Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d), contributes to the continuous evolution of the SRO by improving methodologies, productizing approaches, responsibly exploring emerging technologies, and developing reusable capabilities that strengthen the organization’s ability to realize strategy at scale. This is a hands‑on strategic execution role, not a traditional corporate strategy, PMO, or administrative position, requiring a balance of strategic thinking, practical experimentation, and disciplined execution.

What we are looking for

The Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d), is a senior individual contributor within the Strategy Realization Office (SRO) who combines business strategy, commercial judgment, operating model design, and technology‑enabled innovation to help GDC leaders translate complex business challenges into clear decisions, executable change, and measurable outcomes. As a business‑led transformation practitioner, the role focuses on turning strategic intent and emerging technology opportunities into practical, scalable capabilities that create tangible business value. Working across commercial, portfolio, product, go‑to‑market, organizational, operating model, and transformation initiatives, the Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d), applies structured problem solving, evidence‑based analysis, stakeholder influence, and hands‑on execution to guide work from problem definition through recommendation, mobilization, and execution. The role partners with senior leaders to evaluate opportunities, improve decision quality, challenge ineffective processes, and accelerate organizational performance. This position is critical to scaling the Strategy Realization Office as a repeatable enterprise capability. The successful candidate independently structures ambiguous business problems, builds alignment across diverse stakeholders, and remains closely connected to execution to ensure recommendations translate into action and results. They are commercially minded, technically curious, and focused on business outcomes rather than technology for its own sense. Beyond project delivery, the Senior Business Strategy Specialist (m/f/d), contributes to the continuous evolution of the SRO by improving methodologies, productizing approaches, responsibly exploring emerging technologies and developing reusable capabilities that strengthen the organization’s ability to realize strategy at scale. This is a hands‑on strategic execution role, not a traditional corporate strategy, PMO, or administrative position, requiring a balance of strategic thinking, practical experimentation, and disciplined execution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. 1. Strategic problem framing, assessment, and decision support Lead or own defined pieces of complex, cross‑functional work from initial ambiguity through structured assessment and recommendation. Translate competing views, incomplete evidence and broad strategic intent into clear problem statements, decision questions, value hypotheses, and practical scopes. Build neutral, fact‑based assessments that integrate commercial, operational, organizational, and technology considerations. Develop executive‑ready options, trade‑offs, recommendations, decision criteria, and briefing materials that help leaders make high‑quality decisions.
2. 2. Commercial, portfolio, product, and go‑to‑market strategy Apply commercial and strategic judgement to portfolio, product, go‑to‑market, operating‑model and wider business questions where SRO is engaged. Connect strategic choices to value, cost, risk, customer impact, P & L implications, organizational capacity, and execution feasibility. Work with GDC functions and specialist subject matter expert colleagues where deeper modelling or initiative framing is required, while remaining able to challenge assumptions and interpret the business implications.
3. 3. Operating model and organizational design Shape current state and future‑state operating models across people, process, governance, data, technology roles, and decision rights. Identify organizational drag, duplication, unclear accountability, process failure, or governance gaps that limit execution. Design pragmatic future‑state options that balance global consistency, local realities, control, pace, and user adoption.
4. 4. Mobilization, execution readiness, and value realisation Convert recommendations into practical mobilisation plans with sequencing, ownership, dependencies, governance, measures, and handover requirements. Stay sufficiently close to implementation to resolve ambiguity, maintain decision discipline, and help the accountable business owner move from intent to action. Define success measures and, where appropriate, support benefits tracking, forecast‑to‑actual review and lessons learned.
5. 5. Senior stakeholder leadership and executive communication Build trusted relationships across functions and geographies, including senior and executive stakeholders. Facilitate structured working sessions and decision forums when they are useful, while avoiding facilitation as an end in itself. Challenge assumptions constructively, handle sensitive or contested topics with discretion, and maintain an enterprise‑wide rather than functional perspective. Communicate complex issues simply and credibly in writing and in person.
6. 6. SRO lifecycle, service quality, and reusable capability Apply and improve the SRO. Evaluate Mobilise and Execute lifecycle, engagement gates, and quality standards. Contribute practical methods, playbooks, templates, case studies, value stories, and reusable assets that make SRO delivery more consistent and scalable. Help strengthen portfolio discipline, knowledge reuse, and the link between SRO activity, decision outcomes, and measurable value.
7. 7. Technology‑enabled working and continuous improvement Use AI, data, workflow, and collaboration technologies to improve research, synthesis, analysis, communication, and delivery quality. Actively test new ways of working rather than treating AI or automation as somebody else’s responsibility. Work with Business Technology Strategy colleagues to identify where agents, workflows, applications, interfaces, or decision‑support products could materially improve an engagement or become reusable capability. Protect confidentiality, neutrality, and human judgement when using technology‑enabled methods.

Knowledge & Attributes:

• MBA, Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Substantial experience in strategy execution, business transformation, operating‑model change, M&A/integration, internal consulting, product/commercial transformation, complex programme shaping, or a comparable environment.
• Evidence of independently structuring ambiguous business problems and producing decision‑ready recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Evidence of moving work beyond analysis into mobilisation, implementation, or measurable organisational change.
• Experience operating across multiple functions, stakeholder groups, or geographies in a complex organization.
• Strong written communication and ability to produce concise executive‑quality outputs.
• Strong structured problem‑solving and ability to create clarity from ambiguity.
• Commercial and strategic judgement, including confidence with value, cost, risk, and trade‑offs.
• Operating model, organisational design, or business architecture thinking.
• Senior stakeholder engagement, influencing, and relationship management.
• Ability to mobilise work through ownership, sequencing, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Technology curiosity and willingness to experiment with AI‑enabled and digital ways of working.

Compensation Pay Range

For roles residing in the US, we share pay and benefit levels to support pay transparency requirements. For other countries, we are more than happy to share our competitive pay and benefit levels during the interview process. This is a remote position that requires reliable internet connection and electricity. A monthly stipend is provided to cover expenses associated with working remotely and use of a personal mobile device, if applicable. NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc. offers competitive compensation based on experience, education, and location. Base salary for this position is: $127,300 - $181,300 All regular full‑time employees are eligible for an annual bonus; payout is dependent upon individual and company performance. Employees receive paid time‑off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, life and supplemental insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability, flexible spending account, and 401k retirement plan to create a rich Total Rewards package.

Who we are

As the third largest data center provider, we operate over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions. We understand that every business – large and small – has its own unique needs and goals. We offer local‑to‑global data center expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI‑ready data centers to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime. NTT Global Data Centers is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category.

Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us.

Data centers are the foundation of the digital world and at NTT Global Data Centers, we are one of the largest providers across the globe. We offer a wide variety of exciting and challenging careers that deliver opportunities to shape our ever‑changing world. Our diverse, inspiring workforce is the heart and soul of our company, providing the best experience for our clients every day. By bringing together our global capabilities and local expertise, we help our clients achieve their goals, anywhere in the world. Together, we can accomplish the extraordinary and work to create a more sustainable world with rewarding benefits for everyone - clients, employees, investors, partners, and communities.