Corporate Planning Assistant Manager
$88,764–$110,955 year
On-siteSanta Fe Springs, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead and support initiatives to transform business management and administrative operations by defining project scope, developing plans, and supervising implementation. Chair round table discussions to solicit feedback, resolve conflicts, and foster open communication while providing timely updates to project-related documents. Collaborate with matrixed teams and branch management to identify impacted stakeholders, assess change readiness, and manage complex projects from scoping through deployment. Lead direct and indirect team members to deliver quantitative and qualitative business models, develop fact-based recommendations, and optimize services based on key metrics. Supervise direct reports, promote staff training and development, and cultivate a collaborative atmosphere aligned with joint team goals.
Required Qualifications
- Knowledge and experience in management and business operations
- Extensive knowledge and experience in the area of corporate planning and corporate management
- Working knowledge of initiatives and an understanding of the impact on the organization
- Strong business process re-engineering skills to include change management experience
- Ability to articulate processes at varying degrees of granularity to different audiences
- Broad knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of the impact on the organization of such initiatives
- Have a proven track record of serving the business or project in a management position
- Global awareness
- Language skills to communicate effectively and efficiently with global teams and various stakeholders
- Team-oriented approach with the ability to take initiative, prioritize, and manage multiple tasks simultaneously to meet client expectations and deadlines across multiple projects
- Strong ability to manage complex projects, and multiple stakeholders and articulate the dependencies and interrelationships
- Ability to understand and liaise with top management direction
- Ability to decisively execute business process transformations as needed and with a realistic viewpoint, without being constrained by existing systems and structures
- Ability to provide leadership that positively motivates people in the company/organization
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in unpredictable situations
- Ability to communicate with and influence all levels of staff toward change (to include executive management)
- Be widely trusted, direct, and truthful, with the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships and gain confidence
- Ability to speak, write, and read English
- Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer
- Principals only
Desired Qualifications
- Bilingual in Japanese/ English
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