Westfield Insurance · 17 hours ago
Strategy Principal
Westfield Insurance is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, and they are seeking a Strategy Principal to lead strategic processes across the enterprise and competitive business strategy levels. The role involves driving strategy development, conducting market analysis, and collaborating with business leaders to enhance strategic capabilities.
Insurance
Responsibilities
Scopes and executes discrete strategy projects with business leaders across the strategy lifecycle for the competitive business strategies of the insurance businesses and manages the workflow of various cross-functional resources
Leads processes and directs resources to conduct industry trend research, market and competitive analysis, development of new growth opportunities, quantitative analyses, and evaluation of value propositions and competitive advantages to provide recommendations that inform strategic choices
Champions strategy projects in service of reviewing and updating the enterprise strategy and presents to enterprise leadership
Leads the process and cross-functional resources to monitor, evaluate, and analyze external trends and integrates insights into strategy development, strategic planning, and competitive business strategy reviews
Orchestrates critical processes and leads workstreams of resources to support effective strategic planning post–strategy development
Leads business leaders through evaluating inorganic strategy activities including target identification, deal evaluation, deal execution, and post-merger integration
Collaborates with relevant executives to enable the Strategy Committee to assess the execution of competitive business strategies for each insurance business and the performance of non-insurance businesses
Builds relationships with business leaders throughout the strategy lifecycle by ensuring understanding of critical processes and enhancing their strategic mindset capabilities
Provides the Head of Strategy new ideas and perspectives on how to enhance and expand the Strategy function
Assists with managing the Strategy Leads on strategy projects and directing their work
Qualification
Required
2–4 years of experience in a post-MBA strategy consulting organization or on an internal strategy team is required
5+ years of experience with relevant strategy development and implementation projects (e.g., competitive analysis, market sizing, growth hypotheses exploration, enterprise mission and vision review, and portfolio strategy)
Bachelor's degree in business or a related field and/or commensurate work experience
Preferred
Master's degree in business is preferred
Company
Westfield Insurance
Founded in 1848, Westfield is a global leader in property and casualty insurance, delivering superior risk insights and innovative solutions to customers through a diverse portfolio of insurance products.