Ebay Principal Corporate Strategy 

United States, New York, City of Ithaca 

295501489

Role responsibilities:

• Project leadership:Lead cross-functional projects to solve strategic business problems, working with senior eBay executives. Projects are usually 2-4 months long, staffed with 1-3 team members supporting thePrincipal

• Insights generation:Work with your team and analytics/ data science support to define smart analyses and generate new, compelling insights. Visualize in simple and compelling ways.Use the insights to develop key recommendations grounded in data

• Strategy Development:Define and structure the core problem, understand status quo & competitive dynamics, define ambitions and value proposition and create recommendations for key actions to solve the problem

• Develop compelling and concise storylines to communicate team’s recommendation; prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership

• Peopleleadership:Develop a team of associates and managers to constantly improve and help them grow their career

Job Requirements:

• Intellectual curiosity

• Skilled inproject managementand strategy development, including project prioritization, hypotheses development, financial and business modeling, strategic options identification, consensus building, and implementation

• Outstandinganalytical capabilities(quantitative and qualitative), ability to define relevant analyses in a hypothesis-driven approach, generating new & groundbreaking insights grounded in data

• Excellence instructured thinking, developing creative solutions to challenging strategic business problems. Creativity and “out of the box” thinking that drives innovation. Ability to “see around corners” and “connect the dots” that enable business to proactively drive business

• Strongexecutive presenceand ability to communicate strategy clearly and simply. Ease with executive-level interactions.Ability to create clear and simple storylines.

• Proventrack record to lead and mentor a driven strategy teamin the development and execution of key initiatives

• Comfort inreaching outand prioritizing cross-functional collaboration in a highly matrixed environment

• Comfort inhandling uncertainty

• Highly collaborative

Qualifications

• Proven leader with at least7+years of work experience - experience at a top strategy consulting firm is a must;

• Leaders who spent at least 2-3 years at a top strategy consulting company and then advanced their careers for 4-5 years at a startup or corporate

• Degree required, MBA or equivalent preferred

• Expertise in technology and/or in e-commerce/retail is a plus