Associate, Strategic Planner
Position Summary : As an Associate, Strategic Planner within Vertiv's Global Strategic Accounts (GSA) organization you will be the execution heartbeat for high-visibility programs : building analyses, crafting executive-ready deliverables, structuring work plans, and drafting crisp communications that move decisions forward. You will support data-driven Commercial insights, by translating wide-ranging data into decision-quality analyses. You will work at the cutting edge of AI infrastructure, as the industry experiences unprecedented capital investment. While the specific job deliverables will vary according to unique project and integration needs, you will have the broad skills needed to exercise strong analytical and critical thinking capabilities while helping to solve complex problems and communicate plans and progress. You will work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment that exposes you to a variety of experiences across the organization while you develop business skills and increase the bandwidth and velocity of the GSA Strategy Team as the organization attempts to capture unparalleled top-line growth. This position requires extensive interaction and collaboration across business functions including business leaders and subject-matter-experts. Top performers will be able to reach Director-level within 3 years through demonstrated excellence.
Essential Job Functions
- Deliverable creation : Develop structured models and sensitivity analyses for high priority initiatives including Commercial demand planning, Sales forecasting and planning, and Orders execution.
- Analytical rigor : Ability to bring structure to ill-defined problems and intellectual leadership to problem solving; synthesize insights from analysis and ensure credible, actionable recommendations.
- Communications skills : Ability to develop rapport and credibility across the organization, promote ideas and proposals persuasively. Ability to draft executive updates, decision memos, and other briefs with consistent narratives.
- Program management : Support program management for high priority initiatives including tracking KPIs, surfacing cross-functional blockers, and driving issue closure with owners and timelines
- Business results : Desire to understand, influence, and support management of GSA orders and sales throughout the opportunity identification to order conversion lifecycle.
Principle Responsibilities
50% - Support day-to-day management of GSA sales functionDevelop monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts for orders and sales across GSA accounts, leveraging latest market intel and customer insights.Build account planning materials for Global Account Directors, including market intelligence, key opportunities, threats to Vertiv position, and asks of the Business.Assist share of wallet analysis across GSA Accounts, identifying products and business units that represent the greatest opportunity for share gain potential with specific customers.Review GSA Sales pipeline, ensuring that pipeline appropriately reflects customer demand signals and confidence levels.25% - Provide program support for strategic initiatives, including the broader GSA strategic planning processBuild executive-ready presentations and analysis that translate data into crisp insights for a given scenario. Leadership adopts your analysis as they run the business, creating fewer cycles to decisionCompile market and customer fact-base, synergy models, project management trackers, and integration playbooks.Map spans / layers, role charters, org models in support of high priority org design sprintsSupport subject matter experts in documenting processes to support activities and drive improvement