Strategy & Transformation Associate

University of Miami; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Tuition remission

Job summary

University of Miami is seeking a Strategy & Transformation Associate to join the on-site team in Miami. The role drives analytics, financial modeling, and presentation development to support enterprise strategy and transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience, with strong analytical and communication skills and experience in consulting or investment banking preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• Learning agility and adaptability to changing priorities.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Proficiency with office software and data tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Consulting and/or investment banking experience preferred.
• Ability to analyze multiple large and complex financial, operational, and strategic data sets.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative assessment skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a strategic consultant/advisor for the broader UM/UHealth enterprise.
• Supports, leads, and influences strategic projects and initiatives.
• Manages multiple work streams efficiently and develops strategic objectives and metrics.
• Develops frameworks and conducts analysis to support strategy and transformation.
• Synthesizes analytics into presentation-ready documents and presents findings to leadership.
• Builds relationships across the organization and communicates insights to stakeholders.
• Utilizes tools to gather, analyze, and visualize data.
• Supervises interns and adheres to policies.

Skills

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Technical Proficiency

Communication

Consulting experience

Investment banking experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

PowerBI

Job description

The Department of Strategy and Transformation have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Strategy & Transformation Associate to work on-site in Miami.

CORE JOB SUMMARY The Strategy & Transformation Associate (H) contributes to University of Miami’s (UM) and UHealth’s (UH) success by providing insight & analytical support for key strategy/strategic planning initiatives and plays an integral role in helping define the future of the enterprise and drive critical business initiatives through analysis and communication of data. The Strategy & Transformation Associate (H) independently drives progress, proactively identifies and executes actions to deliver valuable outcomes without explicit direction. The incumbent helps to manage the project lifecycle for projects – including idea generation, initiative scoping & standup, approach and workplan development, analysis on priority topics, financial modeling, presentation development / delivery, and follow-through to value delivery. The incumbent provides recommendations with data-based insights and influences a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

1. Acts as a strategic consultant/advisor for the broader UM/UHealth enterprise.
2. Supports, leads, and influences the formulation and delivery of strategic projects and initiatives. Prepares project design and analytics approach to work for review and input by strategy leadership. Manages multiple work streams/projects efficiently. Develops strategic objectives and associated metrics to allow a ‘strategic view’ of organizational or specific initiative progress.
3. Leverages knowledge, skills and relationships to develop frameworks, conduct analysis, generate insights, and communicate those insights to support / influence strategy and transformation (S&T) agenda.
4. Manages, manipulates, and analyzes multiple large and complex financial, operational, and strategic data sets and sources. Undertakes quantitative and qualitative assessments, and conducts primary research, to support the development of evidence-based strategy. Distills analytical findings into actionable insights.
5. Synthesizes analytics and key insights into presentation-ready documents. Presents findings to S&T team & mid-level stakeholder groups; Develops presentations that will be presented to large audiences, including UM/UHealth’s executive leadership team.
6. Develops and maintains an understanding of strategic issues facing UM/UHealth through analyzing trends, horizon scanning, and building relationships with colleagues across the organization.
7. Collaborates and builds rapports with all levels of the organization ensuring a positive image is conveyed to internal and external partners and stakeholders.
8. Solicits and incorporates feedback effectively; understands different perspectives within the organization.
9. Utilizes internal and external software/tools to gather and extract data and applications (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI, others) to interpret, analyze, and visualize high level data.
10. Demonstrates high emotional intelligence with deftness in navigating complex organizations with multiple stakeholders.
11. Contributes to team’s work and culture, supports colleagues, builds collective capabilities of S&T team, and plays a vocal part in team meetings.
12. Manages, supervises, and develops interns as assigned.
13. Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
• Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes: Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Department Preferred Experience: Consulting and/or investment banking experience.
• Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes: Ability to analyze multiple large and complex financial, operational, and strategic data sets and sources.
• Excellent quantitative and qualitative assessment skills.
• The ability to distill analytical findings into actionable insights.
• Excellent presentation skills.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service.

A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation.

The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs.

Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride.

The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings.

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults.

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019.

The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022.

With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.