Senior Strategic Initiatives Manager

over 2 years ago
Full time role
Emeryville, CA, US... more
Emeryville, CA, US... more

Company

Sila Nanotechnologies is an electronics company that offers new battery materials chemistry. It works directly with leading consumer electronics and ...

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Job Description

WHO YOU ARE

Strategic Initiatives at Sila is responsible for leading and supporting cross-functional efforts that are essential to achieving our strategy for global energy transformation. As a strategic initiatives manager, you will tackle a wide variety of challenges and topic areas, collaborate with teammates across the company, and bring clarity to sophisticated, ambiguous situations of importance.  If you enjoy continuous learning, analyzing problems from multiple angles, and doing something different every day, you will love this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES 

  • Partner with leadership to identify and drive cross-functional initiatives that are critical to achieving our long-term strategy, including testing assumptions, closing information gaps, finding acceleration options, and evaluating and mitigating risks
  • Engage with and quickly understand unfamiliar subject matter spanning multiple functions across the company
  • Crystallize key insights from research, data, and complex analyses into useful communications that help senior leadership make informed decisions, as well as explain the reasoning behind decisions to broader company audiences
  • As needed, collaborate with various partners to frame, research, and assess the business impact of meaningful decisions, approaches, and initiatives. Work directly with functional leaders to implement decisions, approaches, and initiatives
  • Create connections throughout Sila to foster broader participation in strategic problem-solving, including development, discussion, and implementation of solutions

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

  • 7+ years of experience in strategy, management consulting, or other cross-functional quantitative roles. Hard tech industry or engineering / science background a plus.  
  • Strategic and analytical problem solver, with ability to frame, research, quantify, and model operational, financial, and other trade-offs to facilitate cross-functional decisions.  Able to balance big picture thinking with excellent attention to detail
  • Strong business acumen. Comfortable diving into multiple business functions and taking initiative in situations where thought leadership is either absent or unclear
  • Effective at leading through influence, working with diverse  partners and stakeholders, and developing and delivering executive level presentations
  • Demonstrated success executing on several high priority projects at once with flexibility to work both independently and as a member of a collaborative team

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING CONDITIONS

  • Move long distances (e.g. building to building) and be stationary for periods of time
  • Operate office equipment (laptop, copier/printer, etc) in a fixed location
  • Need to be physically present in our Alameda offices most or all of the time

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