Senior Analyst Business Strategy and Planning recruitment

Products Services – Senior Analyst Business Strategy and Planning

The Product Services Strategy and Planning (PSSP) group is responsible for:
• Identifying and translating product, customer, market and competitive trends into opportunities and challenges
• Facilitating collaborative development and design of cross-business strategies, initiatives and contingency plans
• Driving / collaborating on execution of cross-business strategies, initiatives and innovation
• Collaborating and aligning cross-business strategy, analysis, execution across the with individual product lines, corporate strategy and other exchange divisions

Some examples of PSSP projects include:
• Facilitating and contributing to the development of long-term strategy for individual business lines and sales teams
• Developing and coordinating strategies and tactical plans across business line and sales teams
• Providing strategic analysis of competitive threats, areas of opportunity, trends and market developments that impact corporate, business line, or customer segment growth
• Partnering with business line teams, Finance and Research in the development, execution and monitoring of annual strategic plans and key initiatives for growth
• Developing and prioritizing technology requirements across Products and Services and ensuring execution by cross-functional teams
• Identifying and driving innovation opportunities

This position is responsible for:
• Examining opportunities and key initiatives by conducting strategic diagnoses of situation and the competitive environment, using both qualitative methods and quantitative models
• Coordinating the development of strategic plans working with business lines, sales teams and other teams across the exchange
• Executing quantitative and qualitative analysis for PSSP and for other PS departments generating actionable recommendations – including customer volume and trading analyses, market forecasts, and scenario analysis for different business initiatives or strategies
• Collaborating on market and competitive research efforts to examine activities and trends that could have a strategic impact on the overall enterprise including competitive threats, regulatory activity and changing economic factors
• Coordinating with other areas the tracking and communication of progress of business initiative development and execution, providing timely analysis and issue escalation
• Identifying, quantifying and presenting product line business opportunities to PS and CME management

Qualifications
• Strong analytical skills, a high degree of business acumen, and executive presence
• Excellent listener
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to think through, evaluate, and discuss strategic decisions
• Ability to frame, diagnose, and develop cohesive plans for addressing complex problems and business issues
• Ability to execute and coordinate financial, operational and strategic analyses of current and proposed potential business initiatives
• Ability to engage in comprehensive research and analysis of potential business initiatives, often with limited direction
• Ability to develop financial models and work with complex sets of data
• Ability to effectively distill complex ideas and clearly communicate them to others
• Experience in developing presentations for and interacting with senior management
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently; comfortable with varying degrees of ambiguity
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment with multiple stakeholders and facilitate development of actionable plans with multiple stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively with teams located across multiple cities and countries
• Very organized with the ability to work on and drive to completion several different projects with multiple deadlines and teams concurrently
• Experience in financial services, derivatives markets, commodities markets, and the ability to learn quickly and independently
• 5+ years of work experience; experience in strategy or business development is preferred
• Advanced business degree