Sr Manager Strategy - US Remote
Job Description
Anywhere Real Estate is on the hunt for a dynamic and driven individual to join our Strategy Office. This pivotal role is all about spearheading strategic initiatives and transforming our enterprise to enhance the real estate experience for our agents, consumers, and employees. If you have a knack for strategy development, transformation, and change management, and a proven track record of leading complex projects, we want you on our team!
Reporting up to Anywhere Real Estate's VP of Strategy & Competitive Intelligence, this high-profile position offers exposure across all functions and business units, with the potential to grow into operating roles within the company. You'll work closely with our executive team and corporate leaders, leading strategic thinking, development, and cross-functional teams as a 'SWAT team' on prioritized projects.
Key Responsibilities:
ā¢ Strategic Planning: Develop and execute strategic plans to drive corporate strategy and transformation initiatives.
ā¢ Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market analysis and competitive benchmarking to inform strategic decision-making.
ā¢ Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
ā¢ Project Leadership: Lead transformation projects, including process optimization, technology integration, and organizational restructuring.
ā¢ Workshops & Training: Facilitate workshops and training sessions to build strategy and transformation capabilities within the organization.
ā¢ Progress Monitoring: Monitor and report on the progress of initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
ā¢ Communication: Collaborate with the communications team to package and communicate the company's strategy to employees.
ā¢ Project Management: Perform a combined role of project leader and project manager, overseeing projects and ensuring timely execution.
ā¢ Business Cases: Establish business cases, project workplans, and cross-functional teams for assigned initiatives.
ā¢ Lifecycle Support: Support decisions to expand, contract, pivot, or cancel initiatives during the full project lifecycle.
ā¢ KPI Establishment: Support strategy development, initiative identification and prioritization, and establishment of project KPIs.
Qualifications:
ā¢ Education: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
ā¢ Experience: Minimum of 5 years in strategy development, corporate transformation, or management consulting.
ā¢ Skill: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and proven experience in leading large-scale transformation projects.
ā¢ Knowledge: Familiarity with industry trends and best practices in strategy development, corporate transformation, and change management.
ā¢ Adaptability: Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
ā¢ Leadership: Proven strategic thinking, team leadership, and project management skills.
ā¢ Mindset: Innovative, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate well under ambiguity.
ā¢ Matrixed Environment: Experience excelling in a highly matrixed environment and working across multiple business units.
ā¢ Judgment: Superior reasoning skills and sound business judgment to influence decision-making and interface with executive management.
Preferred Skills:
ā¢ Digital Transformation: Experience with digital transformation initiatives, including AI and automation technologies.
ā¢ Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management tools.
ā¢ Financial Analysis: Strong understanding of financial analysis and business case development.
Our Winning Behaviors:
At Anywhere Real Estate, we live by our winning behaviors to ensure success:
ā¢ Obsess About Growth: Focus every day on making a big impact and accelerating growth. Prioritize the most important things that create value for customers and shareholders. Aim high and take big swings informed by data.
ā¢ Always Find a Better Way: Explore and embrace what's possible. Always make things better, faster, simpler. Be candid, curious, and agile. Challenge the status quo and pressure test assumptions.
ā¢ Relentlessly Focus on Talent: Be the reason we attract and keep phenomenal people. Expect and perform with uncompromising standards of excellence, ethics, and accountability. Empower yourself and others to continually learn, improve, seek diversity, and thrive.
ā¢ Achieve Exceptional Results: Take decisive action and deliver on your commitments. Move with speed, plan for the unexpected, overcome barriers, and be resilient. Leverage facts and the wisdom of others to get the best results.
About Us
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) is moving real estate to what's next. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate Better Homes and GardensĀ® Real Estate, Century 21Ā®, Coldwell BankerĀ®, Coldwell Banker CommercialĀ®, CorcoranĀ®, ERAĀ®, and Sotheby's International RealtyĀ® , we fulfill our purpose to empower everyone's next move through our leading integrated services, which include franchise, brokerage, relocation, and title and settlement businesses, as well as mortgage and title insurance underwriter minority owned joint ventures. Anywhere supports nearly 1 million home sale transactions annually and our portfolio of industry-leading brands turns houses into homes in more than 118 countries and territories across the world.
At Anywhere, we are empowering everyone's next move - your career included. What differentiates us is our scale, expertise, network, and unique business model that positions us as a trusted advisor throughout every stage of the real estate transaction. We pursue talent - strategic thinkers who are eager to always find a better way, relentlessly focus on talent, obsess about growth, and achieve exceptional results. We value our people-first culture, which thrives on empowerment, innovation, and cross-company collaboration as we keep moving the world forward, together. Read more about our company culture and values in our annual Impact Report.
We are proud of our award-winning culture and are consistently recognized as an employer of choice by various organizations including:
ā¢ Great Place to Work
ā¢ Forbes World's Best Employers
ā¢ Newsweek World's Most Trustworthy Companies
ā¢ Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Companies
Apply Now
Anywhere Real Estate is on the hunt for a dynamic and driven individual to join our Strategy Office. This pivotal role is all about spearheading strategic initiatives and transforming our enterprise to enhance the real estate experience for our agents, consumers, and employees. If you have a knack for strategy development, transformation, and change management, and a proven track record of leading complex projects, we want you on our team!
Reporting up to Anywhere Real Estate's VP of Strategy & Competitive Intelligence, this high-profile position offers exposure across all functions and business units, with the potential to grow into operating roles within the company. You'll work closely with our executive team and corporate leaders, leading strategic thinking, development, and cross-functional teams as a 'SWAT team' on prioritized projects.
Key Responsibilities:
ā¢ Strategic Planning: Develop and execute strategic plans to drive corporate strategy and transformation initiatives.
ā¢ Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market analysis and competitive benchmarking to inform strategic decision-making.
ā¢ Collaboration: Work with cross-functional teams to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
ā¢ Project Leadership: Lead transformation projects, including process optimization, technology integration, and organizational restructuring.
ā¢ Workshops & Training: Facilitate workshops and training sessions to build strategy and transformation capabilities within the organization.
ā¢ Progress Monitoring: Monitor and report on the progress of initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
ā¢ Communication: Collaborate with the communications team to package and communicate the company's strategy to employees.
ā¢ Project Management: Perform a combined role of project leader and project manager, overseeing projects and ensuring timely execution.
ā¢ Business Cases: Establish business cases, project workplans, and cross-functional teams for assigned initiatives.
ā¢ Lifecycle Support: Support decisions to expand, contract, pivot, or cancel initiatives during the full project lifecycle.
ā¢ KPI Establishment: Support strategy development, initiative identification and prioritization, and establishment of project KPIs.
Qualifications:
ā¢ Education: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
ā¢ Experience: Minimum of 5 years in strategy development, corporate transformation, or management consulting.
ā¢ Skill: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and proven experience in leading large-scale transformation projects.
ā¢ Knowledge: Familiarity with industry trends and best practices in strategy development, corporate transformation, and change management.
ā¢ Adaptability: Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
ā¢ Leadership: Proven strategic thinking, team leadership, and project management skills.
ā¢ Mindset: Innovative, entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate well under ambiguity.
ā¢ Matrixed Environment: Experience excelling in a highly matrixed environment and working across multiple business units.
ā¢ Judgment: Superior reasoning skills and sound business judgment to influence decision-making and interface with executive management.
Preferred Skills:
ā¢ Digital Transformation: Experience with digital transformation initiatives, including AI and automation technologies.
ā¢ Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with agile methodologies and project management tools.
ā¢ Financial Analysis: Strong understanding of financial analysis and business case development.
Our Winning Behaviors:
At Anywhere Real Estate, we live by our winning behaviors to ensure success:
ā¢ Obsess About Growth: Focus every day on making a big impact and accelerating growth. Prioritize the most important things that create value for customers and shareholders. Aim high and take big swings informed by data.
ā¢ Always Find a Better Way: Explore and embrace what's possible. Always make things better, faster, simpler. Be candid, curious, and agile. Challenge the status quo and pressure test assumptions.
ā¢ Relentlessly Focus on Talent: Be the reason we attract and keep phenomenal people. Expect and perform with uncompromising standards of excellence, ethics, and accountability. Empower yourself and others to continually learn, improve, seek diversity, and thrive.
ā¢ Achieve Exceptional Results: Take decisive action and deliver on your commitments. Move with speed, plan for the unexpected, overcome barriers, and be resilient. Leverage facts and the wisdom of others to get the best results.
About Us
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) is moving real estate to what's next. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate Better Homes and GardensĀ® Real Estate, Century 21Ā®, Coldwell BankerĀ®, Coldwell Banker CommercialĀ®, CorcoranĀ®, ERAĀ®, and Sotheby's International RealtyĀ® , we fulfill our purpose to empower everyone's next move through our leading integrated services, which include franchise, brokerage, relocation, and title and settlement businesses, as well as mortgage and title insurance underwriter minority owned joint ventures. Anywhere supports nearly 1 million home sale transactions annually and our portfolio of industry-leading brands turns houses into homes in more than 118 countries and territories across the world.
At Anywhere, we are empowering everyone's next move - your career included. What differentiates us is our scale, expertise, network, and unique business model that positions us as a trusted advisor throughout every stage of the real estate transaction. We pursue talent - strategic thinkers who are eager to always find a better way, relentlessly focus on talent, obsess about growth, and achieve exceptional results. We value our people-first culture, which thrives on empowerment, innovation, and cross-company collaboration as we keep moving the world forward, together. Read more about our company culture and values in our annual Impact Report.
We are proud of our award-winning culture and are consistently recognized as an employer of choice by various organizations including:
ā¢ Great Place to Work
ā¢ Forbes World's Best Employers
ā¢ Newsweek World's Most Trustworthy Companies
ā¢ Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Companies
Apply Now