Director of Strategic Planning & Initiatives – Global Strategy & Operations - LinkedIn : Job Details

• Full-time
• Workplace Type: Hybrid

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

This role will be based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, New York, Chicago or Bellevue.

The Director of Strategic Planning & Initiatives – Global Strategy & Operations will play a key role in defining future-state business processes and driving transformational initiatives for our LinkedIn Marketing Solutions business. This newly created role will be responsible for building and leading our Strategic Initiatives, Vendor Strategy, and Strategic planning teams. These teams will support our Sales Leadership with centralized business processes and transformational Go-To-Market initiatives to sustainably grow our Media business. This leader will be responsible for owning relationships with key partners in Sales, Business Operations, and Sales Operations Leaders.

The ideal candidate will have exceptional collaboration and problem-solving skills and be comfortable interacting with all levels and functions, including Executive Management, Finance, Product, Engineering, Business Operations, and Sales Operations leaders and colleagues.

Using strong communication skills, the Global Director will effectively collaborate with a variety of people and job functions across all geographies, accomplishing tasks of moderate to high complexity and scope, and can perform in a challenging and fast-paced environment. The Global Director will also be responsible for building and developing a top-caliber, diverse team.

Responsibilities:

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years' work experience in management consulting, sales, strategy, operations, or finance
• 5+ years' experience managing people

Preferred Requirements:

• MBA
• Strong communication skills, including written and verbal communication experience with senior leadership.
• Ability to visually present and communicate data, analyses and findings with senior leadership
• Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments.
• Excellent collaboration, influence, organizational, and program management skills
• Ability to define ambiguous problems and drive towards outcomes

Suggested Skills

• Leadership
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Communication

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is US $171,000 to US $278,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

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