What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Strategic Initiatives position at Aptean?
Overview
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We’re looking for a Director, Strategic Initiatives for our office in Alpharetta, GA. The position is full-time. You’ll join an awesome team to support our growing customer base.
About the Role
The Director, Strategic Initiatives will be responsible for leading high-impact projects that are critical to the organization's growth and success. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership skills and the ability to work collaboratively across departments to ensure the successful execution of initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Planning and Execution: Develop and execute comprehensive strategies that align with corporate objectives and market opportunities. Oversee the planning, implementation, and tracking of strategic growth initiatives.
- Performance Measurement and Reporting: Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness and impact of strategic projects. Regularly report on project progress, challenges, and outcomes to senior management.
- Innovation and Change Management: Manage change effectively to ensure successful adoption and integration of new initiatives across the organization.
- Market and Competitive Analysis: Conduct thorough market research and competitive analysis to inform strategic decision-making.
- Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, systems, and practices related to strategic projects.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with senior leaders across the business to ensure alignment and integration of strategic initiatives. Facilitate communication and cooperation among stakeholders.
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- 10 years of experience in strategy, management consulting, private equity, or a related field.
- Proven track record of successfully leading strategic initiatives and projects.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent project management skills with ability to prioritize tasks and quickly react to changing priorities
What’s in it for you?
Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.
About Aptean
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations. “At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy
Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age.
Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.
