Strategy Manager / Senior Manager

The Corporate Strategy team works with senior leaders to help define the strategic direction of Thomson Reuters and translate the strategy into specific plans. We are seeking a Strategy Manager / Senior Strategy Manager to join the team and work on varied projects across Thomson Reuters, including in the corporate center and in the operating businesses (Legal Professionals, Corporates, Tax Professionals, Global Print and Reuters). This highly-visible role will provide the candidate with significant opportunity to advance within the Strategy organization or into other positions across the company. Role location is flexible.

Legal, tax, accounting, audit and news professionals turn to Thomson Reuters online information and software solutions for trusted answers in a complex and constantly changing world.

The Strategy Manager will report to the Vice President of Corporate Strategy and will be a key contributor to projects such as:

• Growth Strategies: market opportunity analysis, new market entry strategies
• Business Development: competitive analysis, mergers and acquisition (M&A) evaluation, due diligence
• Efficiency and Effectiveness: commercial strategy, channel strategy, product and technology planning
• Strategic Planning: annual business planning, business case development, 3-5-year strategic planning, capital allocation
• Board of Directors communications: helping senior leadership to articulate our strategy to the Board

About the Role

In this opportunity as Strategy Manager / Senior Strategy Manager, you will: 

• Structures and leads projects (or parts of large complex projects), including customer segment or company strategies, acquisition pipeline development, the strategy planning process, and/or key operational issues
• Can play an individual delivery role in executing complex, large analytical and problem solving modules on an individual basis
• Takes overall responsibility for the project, including thought leadership role in problem solving and developing recommendations
• Synthesizes team’s work to create deliverables, including developing compelling slides and presentations that tell a clear story and other outputs to document and communicate findings
• Independently interacts and collaborates with stakeholders in product, finance, technology and other areas
• Collaborates with and presents recommendations to senior-level stakeholders
• Manages multiple, time-sensitive project deliverables simultaneously
• Becomes “expert” on broad area

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Strategy Manager / Senior Strategy Manager if your background includes:

• 2+5 years of related business experience in corporate strategy, strategic marketing or finance
• Experience in a strategy consulting firm or a corporate strategy team preferred
• Bachelor's degree required
• Experience owning and delivering concurrent, time-sensitive analytical projects required
• Experience in and knowledge of the legal, tax, accounting or audit industries desirable
• Ability to work collaboratively on a team and within a larger matrixed organization
• Proven analytical and quantitative skills, experience with spreadsheets, including ability to quality control team members
• Strong communication skills (slide layout and composition, memo-writing and verbal)
• Strong narrative/story-telling ability, including ability to synthesize the work of others
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships and influence all levels within an organization
• Strong ability to structure and manage projects
• Ability to facilitate large group sessions with senior management

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• COVID-19 Response: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking
• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency.  Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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