Strategy & Operations Manager
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$65.07 to $72.31 an Hour
Start Date:
08.04.2025
Join a leading global organization as a Functional Strategy Generalist, partnering with Aquent Talent. In this pivotal role, you’ll shape the future of work by driving strategic initiatives, influencing key decisions, and collaborating with executive stakeholders. Your expertise will directly impact the organization’s trajectory, optimizing business performance and ensuring best-in-class execution.
As a Functional Strategy Generalist, you will be a key driver of strategic initiatives, working closely with leadership to identify opportunities, develop solutions, and implement impactful changes. Your analytical skills and business acumen will be essential in shaping the future of the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Spearhead key initiatives from concept to completion, including team-wide projects to enhance alignment and accelerate progress.
- Collaborate closely with functional leaders and product area leadership to operationalize strategic recommendations.
- Analyze trends in the future of work, translating market insights into actionable strategies and driving digital transformation.
- Proactively identify and address business challenges, developing solutions and building compelling business cases.
- Define and implement communication strategies, planning internal events and ensuring consistent messaging.
- Establish and manage key operational processes, including OKRs, QBRs, annual planning, and budget management.
- Drive strategic analysis to optimize business performance and ensure best-in-class execution.
- Gather, analyze, and synthesize complex information to develop compelling business recommendations.
Must-Have Qualifications:
- 6 years of experience in management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- 3 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
- 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.
- Advanced proficiency in effective questioning, business insights and analysis, business area knowledge, systems analysis, data analysis, and stakeholder management.
- Proficiency in KPIs, change management, leadership alignment and stakeholder influence, project management skills, and negotiation.
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $65.07 to $72.31 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
Client Description
A giant in the Tech Industry, this company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do—from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.
A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:
Expanding Opportunity – Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.
Protecting Users – Keeping billions of people safer online.
Including all Voices – Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.
Responding to Crisis – Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.
Advancing Sustainability – Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission — to foster sustainability at scale.
Are you ready to join the journey?
Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.