Strategy Director (Location Flexible)

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

At Alcoa, you're an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies.

You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role:

Does the prospect of developing the long term strategy for a global leader appeal to you? The corporate strategy team is responsible for leading Alcoa’s annual strategic planning process, implementing key strategic initiatives, contributing to business development activities (mergers, acquisitions, JV formation, and divestitures), and supporting strategic problem solving across the businesses.  To complete its mission, the corporate strategy team collaborates closely with business and functional teams across Alcoa.

Responsibilities include:


* Lead projects and teams, collaborating as “one-team” with business units;


* Conduct analysis and generate insights to create actionable recommendations on specific strategic questions, for example: evaluating the business case for a major investment, evaluating the competitiveness of an industry player relative to Alcoa, identifying investment/partnership opportunities and assessing financial performance of industry segments and/or potential acquisition prospects;


* Organize and lead the annual planning process and support Alcoa’s Executive Team, while leading the work of others, including project team members and corporate strategy staff;


* Raise awareness of key high-reaching developments that could impact Alcoa’s position.

About you:

Our values – act with integrity, operate with excellence, care for people – are at the foundation of everything we do.

To be successful in this role and to play a part in our ongoing success we desire the following background:


* Bachelors Degree in business, economics, or engineering.

MBA preferred.


* Demonstrated track record in strategic consulting, corporate strategy or similar role.


* Strong analytical skills and the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable strategies.


* Outstanding project and people management skills.


* Experience working in a global company.


* Be able to lead primary and secondary strategic market research and vetting, including problem structuring/survey design, data gathering from internal and external sources, financial analysis, market analysis, recommendation development.

What we offer:

At Alcoa, our care for people philosophy is backed by our excellent total rewards package that we provide our employees effective on your date of hire, such as:


* Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for-perfo...