The Strategic Operations Manager will focus on operationalizing Marcom’s goals and strategy, driving planning and prioritization across the organization. The day-to-day responsibilities will include:Partnering with business leads to drive operational and financial planning, ensuring that cross-functional plans are aligned to the agreed strategic priorities.Operationalizing major organization-wide strategic initiatives, new categories and/or lines-of-business, by determining and quantifying the level of effort, resources, budget and new organizational capabilities required in order to bring these initiatives to life. Defining the actionable steps needed to execute Marcom’s business plan in the most efficient way possible. Informing and reinforcing strategic decisions and goals through business analytics; identification, measurement and interpretation of operational performance indicators.Capability building: Foreseeing and identifying the future capabilities Marcom will require in order to realize its strategic goals and priorities. Informing and making decisions on investments into these capabilities, while maintaining operational excellence in our current capabilities and ways of working.New business structure and processes: Inform Business Operations, Finance, international (Geo) Operations teams of potential new budget management, reporting and tracking requirements of future/upcoming categories and initiatives.Determine security requirements and disclosure levels of new categories, LOBs and strategic initiatives. Work with relevant teams to implement the right security setup and manage disclosures for these initiatives.