Job Title: Vice President, Enterprise Strategy
Business Function: Strategy
Location: Zug, Switzerland
The Vice President, Enterprise Strategy will lead our enterprise-wide strategic initiative portfolio to identify and assess growth and innovation opportunities for Thomson Reuters. This includes ideating and assessing new adjacencies, developing major cross-company strategic initiatives, and sourcing and assessing major acquisitions and divestitures. This role involves working closely with key stakeholders and senior leaders across the organization to assess organizational performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop strategic plans that align with the company's vision and objectives.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Vice President, Enterprise Strategy, you will:
Lead the development and implementation of our top-down Growth Strategy initiative.
Conduct thorough market analysis to identify trends, threats, and opportunities for evolving Thomson Reuters business footprint, including new adjacencies and portfolio structure.
Facilitate and drive enterprise-wide strategic initiatives through inception to completion.
Identify, prioritize, and bring to fruition organic Horizon 2 organic investment opportunities.
Evaluate potential mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and other strategic transactions.
Prepare and present reports on strategic initiatives and acquisitions to the CSO, CEO, board of directors, and other key stakeholders.
Mentor and develop a high-performing strategy team, managing work allocation, training, problem resolution, and performance evaluation.
Manage team members, project timelines, and take overall responsibility for the rigor and quality of strategic analysis
Collaborate with other Strategy leaders on opportunities that span across Thomson Reuters’ segments, and efficient use of resources across the team.
Engage externally with customers and industry experts to maintain a pulse on industry trends and ensure Thomson Reuters has visibility into actional inorganic opportunities.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of VP Strategy if your background includes:
Undergraduate degree in relevant discipline required; Graduate degree preferred.
Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience, including working in strategy consulting or in-house strategy teams.
Strategy experience in on or more of the markets served by Thomson Reuters or the broader application software or business information markets is preferred.
Experience leading fast-paced strategy projects with solid line and dotted line participants.
Executing on organic and inorganic growth opportunities, including M&A target screening and strategic due diligence.
Strong narrative and visual storytelling ability.
Synthesis and simplification of complex ideas. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable strategies.
Ability to perform and direct quantitative analyses, including financial modeling and market sizing.
Proven experience working in large, complex, global organization with a successful track record of collaboratively working with colleagues across regions, markets, and cultures.
Proven ability to build relationships and influence all levels within an organization.
Exceptional leadership skills with experience managing cross-functional teams and projects.
Deep understanding of the industry, market dynamics, and business drivers.
Key Skills:
Strategic thinking and visioning
Business acumen and industry expertise
Analytical and quantitative skills
Relationship building and stakeholder management
Project management and organizational skills
Decision-making and problem-solving
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What’s in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
DISCLAIMER
The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
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We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.