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Senior Strategist, Cloud & SaaS Transition Strategy & Operations
The subscription economy is mainstream and growing. Customers want faster access to product updates, ongoing support and education, and flexible consumption and commercial models. VMware is listening to our customers and partnering with them to provide new offerings to deploy and use VMware technology as a subscription in their on-premises and cloud deployments.
The Senior Strategist will support the Senior Director of Strategy to use a wide variety of data sources to develop analysis, scenarios, and insights to help the team identify paths to subscription and cloud growth, address key challenges, and make the right decisions. The work will focus on developing a deep understanding of what is needed at VMware to transition from a predominately license and maintenance business to a subscription and SaaS business over the next 3 years. The required analysis will be broad ranging across market, customer, financial, product, and sales data to help with planning, prioritization, and investments.
Job Roles and Responsibilities:
- Strategy development and execution ? Work with the leadership to develop strategy to accelerate Subscription revenue growth, lead ongoing program management for major strategic projects, in partnership with cross-functional leadership team and a wide variety of stakeholders. Structure and execute operational and strategic initiatives by developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses and developing final recommendations
- Quantitative analysis and financial modeling ? Work with large data sets, develop models to compare scenarios, and rate strategy proposals based on quantitative outcomes.
- Market assessment ? Become a subject matter expert on subscription and SaaS market conditions and trends, competitive analysis, and industry best practices for the license to subscription journey.
- Analysis – Develop rigorous, fact based, quantitative analysis to support recommendations; ensure strategic and financial soundness and alignment of recommendations
- Cross-functional stakeholder management ? Work across internal stakeholders including sales, product, finance, marketing, partners, customer success, and operations to gather data and help develop strategies and solutions.
- Communications ? Summarize insights from analysis and clearly communicate analytical finding in a cohesive story. Write and communicate complex business issues in a simple, impactful way. Develop narratives, presentations, and communications to support Sr Dir of Strategy.
- KPIs ? Assist in long range planning, development of annual plans. Own tracking and reporting of business metrics reporting including financial targets, goals with business insights on results and outcomes.
Required Background and Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Software and/or SaaS
- MBA required; 3+ year of post-graduate work in management consulting or high-tech corporate strategy preferred
- Knowledge and experience of Subscription and SaaS businesses highly preferred
- Experience in leading complex operational topics and strategy implementation end-to-end, managing stakeholders, balance competing priorities, running multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously
- Superior analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, business judgment and problem-solving skills with some understanding of market trends for license to subscription journey
- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous and fast paced environment with an entrepreneurial approach, work autonomously with limited guidance
- Strong attention to detail and an affinity for metrics and patterns in business performance
- Strong communication skills, including an exceptional ability to take complex topics and ideas into simple, compelling narratives and build presentation decks for different audiences
- Get-stuff-done mindset with a strong bias towards action
- Exposure to a wide range of data and analytical concepts and methodologies, including:
- Market sizing
- Competitive analysis
- Customer needs analysis / primary research
- Financial modeling
- Portfolio review (e.g. where to invest, where to divest)
- Forecasting
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