Strategy Manager

1 week ago

Sydney, Australia Xero Full time

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

**How you'll make an impact**

Xero’s Global Strategy & Operations team partners closely with the Executive Leadership Team and other senior stakeholders across the company to lead critical strategic and operational initiatives across all areas of the business - including annual planning, market entry and expansion playbooks, product innovation roadmaps, and M&A support. To support our growing pipeline of opportunities and choices, Xero is hiring a Strategy Manager within the Global Strategy & Operations team who will play a key role in successful project delivery. This role will work closely with our global operations and regional strategy and operations teams.

**What you’ll do**
- Be a key contributor to the ongoing definition and evolution of our corporate long-term strategy, including evaluating the changing landscape in which Xero operates, identifying the most attractive opportunities and ensuring Xero is positioned to win in the future
- Help structure and solve business problems by developing rigorous, fact based, quantitative analyses and collaborating with a range of internal stakeholders
- Develop market intelligence by identifying trends and anticipating shifts that will inform strategic decision-making
- Develop communication of recommendations in a clear, concise and impactful way

**What you'll bring**
- Strategic toolkit: Proven ability to lead and contribute to all aspects of strategy formulation and execution through structured problem solving
- Analytical skills: Strong capability in handling qualitative and quantitative analyses, incl. building large data models and translating findings into actionable insights and executive-level presentations
- Stakeholder management: Deep understanding of complex stakeholder groups and how to collaborate across various levels and functions
- Project management: Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end projects efficiently, ensuring timely delivery of insightful recommendations
- Industry knowledge: 3+ years of experience in strategy roles, ideally from a consulting background, with a Master’s degree or equivalent. Understanding of SaaS, fintech, or similar industries is preferred

**Why Xero?**

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

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