Director Strategic Planning - Cox Business

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Job Family Group

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Profile

Director, Strategic Planning

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid

• Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $156,200.00 - $260,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY:

Cox Communications is seeking to add two new directors to their Strategy Planning team. These Strategic Planning Directors will join the strategy team supporting Cox Business and will be a critical member of leadership for the Cox Business teams they support. The director will partner with executives to help shape their strategy to drive organizational success and achieve both short- and long-term results.

This role is responsible for providing strategic direction and guidance to ensure the organization is best positioned to achieve its goals around key growth areas such as managed and cloud services, commercial fiber, and the core business.

Primary responsibilities and essential functions:

Key Responsibilities:

• Drives all aspects of strategic planning activities for Cox Businesses' managed services portfolio in partnership with their executive team and other key stakeholders.

• Drives strategy alignment with both the immediate and long-range plans, including the 10-year ambition and vision for the business.

• Partners with leaders to guide the planning processes that produce our strategic roadmap and priorities for Cox Business; ensure alignment with our company-wide planning processes and milestones.

• Oversees the development of short-, medium-, and long-term strategic roadmaps, and ensures alignment with operating, resource allocation, and financial plans and targets.

• Leverages understanding of customers, markets, and technologies to define and strategy.

• Engages with senior leaders, consulting on and influencing strategic decision making.

• Works with key partners to implement strategies and strategic roadmap elements.

• Assesses complex, strategic opportunities and threats and recommend actions to be taken on issues such as: new opportunity spaces and growth levers, go-to-market approach, competitive response, customer experience and retention strategies, and product roadmaps.

• Works with internal and external colleagues and sources to monitor our environments for impactful trends and provide perspective on impact to the business; translates trends into actional data insights that are useful in driving decision-making that impacts, strengthens, and moves the business forward.

• Uses creative and innovative approaches to conduct market and competitor research to identify possible threats and opportunities and to inform strategic decision making.

• Supports change management and employee communication activities, where needed to help share the strategy and the business drivers supporting it.

Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum

• BA/BS degree in business or a related field, (Marketing, Business, Operations, etc.) with at least 10+ years' experience in strategic planning or consulting; OR 14 years of equivalent experience without a degree.

• 5+ years' experience in a management or leadership role

• Experience with one or more of the following:

• Managed cloud services

• Subscription business models

• Capital lite and capital-intensive businesses.

• Broadband and/or wireless businesses

• Small and medium sized business customers

• Demonstrated experience assisting leaders with creating strategic plans that align with short and long-term goals and objectives.

• Strong knowledge of strategic planning and organizational development.

• A track record of accomplishments delivering and supporting executive level initiatives.

• The ability to think strategically and the ability to manage complex problems and initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to excel in a fast-paced, changing environment, and to quickly pivot to address changing priorities.

• Demonstrated business acumen; strongly connected to and embedded in the businesses they support to ensure a deep understanding of what they do, their importance to the business, their internal and external risks, and opportunities, and their short- and long-term impact.

• Experience with strategic planning and development processes, frameworks, and tools.

• Can synthesize and simplify detailed and sometimes ambiguous inputs from a variety of sources.

• Exceptional communication, negotiation skills, and interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to collaborate across organizations.

• Strong storytelling abilities using graphics and other methods and tools.

• Possesses a customer centric approach to their partnership with the business.

• Influential with recommendations and solutions to drive operational change to achieve ambitions.

• Self-directed, highly motivated, and objective-driven; high degree of personal accountability and ownership.

• Proactive approach; drives work with a sense of urgency and responsibility.

• Understands the matrixed organization and operates well within it.

Preferred

• MBA, MS or an advanced degree in a related discipline such as business, finance, economics, marketing, technology, etc., or PhD with 5+ years of experience in a related discipline.

• Strong understanding and working knowledge of the telecommunications industry, systems, and networks, current and emerging technologies, and standards; sales and/or customer centric businesses.

• Prior experience with management consulting firm(s) focused on strategy development and execution

• Experience managing others.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.

About Us

Cox Communications is all about creating moments of real human connection; and for employees, that's true both in the workplace and in the problems we solve for customers. From building advertising solutions to unleashing IoT technologies to creating an exceptional experience for customers in our retail locations and online, we're creating a world that is smarter and more connected. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer

• All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.