Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Manager, Strategic Initiatives at Constant Contact

As a Manager, Strategic Initiatives, you will be instrumental in bridging between high-level vision and practical, scaled business deployment and enablement of the business lines. You will also contribute to strategic initiatives and M&A activities, while creating executive presentations, briefs, and fact packs to provide updates to leadership and the board of directors.

Your responsibilities will include critical, high-impact role bridging the gap between high-level artificial intelligence vision and practical, scaled business deployment. You will own initiative reporting cadence and cross-functional alignment touchpoints. You will also contribute to strategic initiatives and M&A activities, while creating executive updates to leadership.

What you’ll do:

• Drive and Track strategic initiatives: Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external teams to drive and track strategic initiatives, strategic partnership activities, and M&A efforts. Proactively identify, surface, and escalate initiative risks and blockers to leadership
• Build Business Cases: Collaborate with Finance and business owners to align on pilot programs, success metrics (revenue, efficiency, cycle-time), and track ROI
• Lead Multidisciplinary Execution: Coordinate cross-functional teams to integrate AI tools directly into existing operating models, legacy software, and workflows
• Process improvement: partner with business owners to update workflows to leverage AI capabilities
• Value-Led Prioritization: Partner with business leaders to identify, evaluate, and prioritize high-impact initiatives
• Support M&A Integration: Coordinate post-merger integration workstreams across functions, maintain integration trackers, track progress against deal thesis, and surface risks to leadership.
• Develop executive presentation: Prepare presentations, executive briefs, and fact packs for executive and BoD updates.

Who you are:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in a Corporate Strategy Execution or strategic consulting role, preferably in a fast-paced SaaS or MarTech environment
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional strategic initiatives
• Proven ability to develop executive and board presentations
• Proven experience with market research and competitive analysis, with ability to distill quantitative and qualitative data into relevant insights.
• Exceptional proficiency in synthesizing complex information with acute attention to detail.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Exceptional ability to thrive in ambiguous and fast-paced environment, demonstrating strong time management skills with ability to adapt with rapidly changing priorities.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel) and Google Workspace (GSuite). Think-Cell experience is preferred.