Business Strategist Lead

Business Strategist Lead

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service, and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families. Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values honesty, integrity, loyalty, and service define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

Join our Transformation & Ventures team as we evolve our strategy and invest for the future. In this Business Strategist Lead role, you'll align strategy to our most critical investments and help shape our long-term direction. Perfect for someone who excels at driving impact and influencing across teams. As a dedicated Business Strategist Lead, you may also be responsible for managing and communicating the progress and outcomes of business strategic and operational efforts with senior leadership throughout the planning process and ongoing. Provides thought leadership, resources, support, guardrails, and guidance to enable senior leaders across CoSA and enterprise to achieve strategic goals. Contributes to the sustainability of CoSA and functional strategies while also ensuring all production and expense targets are achievable for the plan horizon.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations : San Antonio, TX, Plano, TX, Phoenix, AZ, Colorado Springs, CO, Charlotte, NC, Chesapeake, VA, or Tampa, FL. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What You'll Do :

• Leverage expert business acumen, critical thinking, abstract thinking, and empathy to independently reframe business problems into business opportunities.
• Develop custom project approaches to uniquely address the specific needs of each defined initiative, ensuring a deep focus on achieving business objectives.
• Continuously iterate and refine methodologies to optimize business development.
• Drive continuous improvement by iteratively refining methodologies and approaches to further evolve the business strategy discipline.
• Lead diverse audiences, including partners, senior executive leadership, stakeholders, and users towards a shared vision and desired outcomes through impactful communication and engagement strategies.
• Conduct comprehensive strategic analysis employing advanced data analysis skills, to manipulate, interpret, and study additional data sources to translate findings into comprehensive actionable insights for further business strategy development.
• Synthesize and interpret large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to create narratives that communicate strategic recommendations.
• Maintain a deep understanding of business needs, goals, and challenges and connects all aspects of the business strategy to tell a cohesive, impactful story aligning to the enterprise corporate strategy.
• Define and execute recommendations to enhance the business strategy practice, ensuring alignment of business strategies to the enterprise corporate strategy.
• Elevate experience related opportunities to the USAA strategic planning process.
• Execute and evolve functional strategies developed in partnership with the CoSA strategy team.
• Understand and supports the execution of functional, CoSA, and enterprise strategies with functional implications.
• Partner with the CoSA strategy team on the USAA strategic planning process.
• Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What You Have :

What Sets You Apart :

Compensation Range : The salary range for this position is : $143,320 - $273,930.

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support.

Benefits : At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. If you are an existing USAA employee, please use the internal career site in OneSource to apply. Please do not type your first and last name in all caps.

Find your purpose. Join our mission. USAA is unlike any other financial services organization. The mission of the association is to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates, and their families through provision of a full range of highly competitive financial products and services; in so doing, USAA seeks to be the provider of choice for the military community. We do this by upholding the highest standards and ensuring that our corporate business activities and individual employee conduct reflect good judgment and common sense, and are consistent with our core values of service, loyalty, honesty, and integrity. USAA attributes its long-standing success to its most valuable resource : its 35,000 employees. They are the heart and soul of our member-service culture. When you join us, you'll become part of a thriving community committed to going above for those who have gone beyond : the men and women of the U.S. military, their associates, and their families. In order to play a role on our team, you don't have to be connected to the military yourself you just need to share our passion for serving our more than 13 million members. USAA is an EEO / AA Employer - applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, protected veteran status or other status protected by law. California applicants, please review our HR CCPA - Notice at Collection here.