Sr. Global Strategy, Partnerships, & New Ventures Lead

COMPANY OVERVIEW
Motorola Mobility, A Lenovo Company, is one of the world's fastest growing smartphone providers, creating groundbreaking, high-quality products and software designed and built with the global customer in mind. And it's our people who make this all happen. We are thinkers, risk-takers, and problem solvers, working together to constantly challenge the status quo. If you share our commitment to ingenuity, creativity, and innovation, we want you to help us define our world of tomorrow. Explore the opportunities and apply today.

POSITION OVERVIEW
Motorola Mobility is looking for a Sr. Global Strategy, Partnerships & New Ventures Lead, who will be responsible for driving the highest impact/most strategic initiatives and defining the future of Motorola. As the global leader you will help shape the business strategy for Motorola with the highest exposure to the Motorola leadership team.

You will not only be responsible for shaping the strategic direction for Motorola, but also will take leadership in driving and facilitating the execution and working with key leaders across the organization - from spearheading key strategic programs, driving new partnership opportunities and driving decisions with the Motorola Senior Leadership team.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills and will be comfortable presenting analyses to executives and obtaining alignment with the senior-most leaders at Motorola & across Lenovo group. The candidate will also have a keen business acumen, experience with business development / new ventures / M&A and be comfortable leading initiatives involving multiple functions, and a genuine interest to provide meaningful analyses, using tools such as PowerPoint and Excel.

We are looking for a proactive professional who is driven and motivated to work in a very dynamic team environment.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the development of Motorola's global business strategy, strategic initiatives and strategic partnerships/ventures

• Identify and lead new business ventures with partners across categories

• Lead initiatives on potential mergers & acquisitions

• Build business cases for new initiatives / investment opportunities

• Partner with Motorola's senior leadership to drive critical strategic partnerships and investments (new ventures)

• Use analytical frameworks to support leadership in decision making

• Create executive-level presentations to support strategic recommendations

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors' degree (business or engineering fields preferred)

• 8+ years work experience with several years of work experience in strategy or business related role

• Experience in M&A or investment banking

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with ability to simplify and clearly articulate complex problems to stakeholders of all levels across multiple functions

• Detail oriented with ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities

• Strong analytical skills and ability to synthesize large amounts of information to draw conclusions

• Strong problem-solving capabilities

• Ability to define and frame business problems in a logical and structured manner

• Works well in a very dynamic/fast-paced environment

• Motivated self-starter that is comfortable working independently

• Highly proficient with MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA degree

• Previous consulting experience or equivalent