Samsung Senior Director Corporate Strategy 

United States, New Jersey 

262816526

Primary areas of responsibility include

• Strategic Vision Development & Alignment (with support from the VP and Team Leadership): Lead, develop and execute company’s long term strategic plans. Also, conduct comprehensive analysis to ensure strategic plans are aligned with market demands and company’s objectives.
• Market and Industry Analysis : Monitor and analyze industry trends, competitive landscape, and market shifts to identify strategic opportunities and threats. Also, provide insights into new business model innovation that can give Samsung competitive edge.
• Strategic Planning: Oversee the development of strategic plans, including short-term objectives and long-term goals, ensuring they support the overall corporate vision.
• Merger & Acquisition Due Diligence: Identify, evaluate, and recommend potential M&A opportunities that align with strategic goals. Manage due diligence and integration planning for acquisitions.
• Strategic Opportunity/Project Initiative Development : identify, evaluate, and develop new market opportunities and business models to drive growth; spearhead creation of strategic business cases; Oversee development of strategic projects from inception to execution, facilitating cross-divisional collaborations and ensuring they meet strategic goals
• Change Management: Lead change management efforts to ensure smooth transitions when new strategies are implemented, addressing cultural and operational shifts.
• Performance Monitoring: Implement metrics and KPIs to monitor strategy execution. Regularly review performance against strategic objectives and adjust plans as necessary.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Collaborate with department heads (e.g., Finance, HR, Operations) to ensure strategic initiatives are integrated across the organization.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate strategic direction to the board of directors, executive team, and other key stakeholders. Facilitate buy-in and alignment on strategic priorities.
• Innovation Management: Promote a culture of innovation by fostering environments where new ideas can be tested and scaled. Ensure the company stays at the forefront of industry trends.
• Risk Management: Identify strategic risks and develop mitigation plans. Ensure that strategic decisions consider potential risks and their impacts.
• Strategic Partnership Development & CEO Networking Support : Build and nurture a network of external experts and C-level executives to bring innovative ideas and businessopportunity/partnershipsto Samsung. Identify, develop and manage Chief Executive level network in support of Samsung’s North America CEO in the U.S. market.
• Thought Leadership : Serve as a thought leader within the company, advocating for strategic thinking and innovation; present strategic insights and recommendations to executive leadership and externalcustomers/partners;develop overarching strategy and business analysis and presentations for the top management meetings.
• Strategic Meeting & Presentation Support: work with the leadership to prepare top management and cross-divisional level meetings and workshops including preparation of the agenda, presentation preparation, including all necessary back up analysis.
• Customer Experience: Continuously look for ways to enhance the Samsung’s customer experience through strategic decisions, whether through product enhancements, service offerings, or retail strategy.
• Customer/Installed base strategy: Continuously look for ways to enhance the customer experience through strategic decisions, whether through product enhancements, service offerings, or retail strategy, across LOB and services.

Skills and Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 15+ years of directly related experience is required. Including, but not limited to strategic planning, business management, corporate leadership, and financial decision-making.
• MBA preferred
• Must have a strong working knowledge of management strategies, financial accounting, marketing, supply chain, and operations
• Experience communicating cross-functionally, domestically, globally and up & down an organization
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of information quickly
• Experience collaborating with senior executives across a large organization
• Experience leading innovation initiatives that create real world impact, including expertise in design thinking, consumer insights, experimentation, and user experience in a corporate and environment
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Sophistication in communications, interpersonal relations and diplomacy.
• Excellent analytical, problem resolution and decision-making skills
• strategic planning and execution skills

Cultural fit and behavioral Competencies

• Thought leader who can drive action, embody and encourages intelligent creativity
• Enjoys working closely with multiple partners and complex stakeholders
• Idea generator: Consistently curious about the world and must be able to draw on your experience and also tools and techniques to solve innovation challenges
• Fast-thinking, nimble, adaptable and thrive in a fast-moving environment. Always to new ideas with the ability to recognize the business value of ideas
• Possess the demeanor, business maturity, intellect and integrity required to establish immediate credibility with key stakeholders within the company and motivate your team in a way which lets them play to their strengths
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills and be masters in the art of persuasion to strategically get your point across
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a restless heart
• Head and heart in balance. Deeply human in understanding people problems and commercially sharp with advice
• Our people are smart and ambitious and also humble. Strong opinions lightly held is how we sum it up.
  Lifelong learners are a great fit for our organization

Leadership CORE Competencies

• EXCELLENCE
  Drives action with humility, EQ, and an unwavering passion for performance and results
• CHANGE
  Embodies and encourages intelligent creativity
• CO PROSPERITY
  Navigates highly matrixed and complex organizations successfully as part of a team
• PEOPLE
  Builds and develops best-in-class teams built on trust, accountability and mutual respect for each other and the organization
• INTEGRITY
  Inspires trust, confidence, and consensus across the organization by fostering relationships