Right now, it’s more important than ever to have a growth strategy. Just a couple of years ago, we thought transforming enterprises would take a decade, now it is taking less than 5 years. There are huge opportunities now as everyone is re-imaging everything – rebuilding industries, rebuilding economies, and doing it with new business models. Growth opportunities are being pursued and achieved in every sector….delivering on the promises of technology and human ingenuity.
We commented recently on the enormous growth of digital commerce and DTC businesses fueled the COVID pandemic as consumers shifted to online shopping and companies doubled down on creating digital commerce and DTC capabilities. Companies including Amazon, Netflix, Google and Tesla among others have continued double digit growth rates and technology consultancies including Accenture Interactive, Deloitte Digital and Publicis Sapient are leading large and mid-cap businesses to develop growth strategies and new technology capabilities by shifting their business models.
Companies are finding new ways to grow by:
• Designing New Growth Strategies: Assessing and levering natural advantages and unique selling points; identifying new customer needs and aligning them with emerging market trends to drive revenue growth and differentiate the company from its competitors.
• Venturing & Incubation: Creating the right structure, capabilities, assets, teams, governance models to get pilots off the ground; and positioning them for rapid scaling and growth.
• Gaining Market Traction: Determining the best ways to drive continuous innovation at scale, serving new and existing customers.
Effective Chief Growth Officers (CGOs) are driving growth strategies and business transformation from ideation to execution across industries by setting strategy, building the business/brand/experience path, and acting as a sherpa throughout the journey. This role requires a human-centered approach to discover and drive new ventures, propositions, and business designs for companies – in either new adjacent markets or by re-inventing their core business.
This month EC is highlighting a new Managing Director, Senior Growth & Business Design career opportunity for a global digital technology consulting firm client. In this role, our client is seeking candidates with the following:
- Experience selling and delivering business innovation programs for Fortune 500 clients in complex, global, matrix companies.
- Proven experience selling and driving transformational Experience-led initiatives across an enterprise.
- Demonstrated ability linking functional expertise with operational know-how and understanding of technology to drive digital solutions and positioning for clients around key platforms.
- Ability to translate human needs into tangible value to drive growth.
- Understand business drivers relative to improving operational performance while removing cost.
- Identify marketplace trends, pain points, competitive landscape, and be able to conceptualize and articulate differentiated offerings leveraging the firm’s experience/expertise.
- Ability to bring together and galvanize multi-functional teams to build new businesses – designers, industry strategists, venture architects, technologists, ecosystem partners.
- Outstanding oral, written and interpersonal communication skills; strong presentation skills necessary to communicate, and persuade, a wide range of audiences.
We are especially interested in speaking with executives with successful startup experience leading to successful exits, serial entrepreneurs, angel/venture investors, and corporate executives in large enterprises who have led successful business transformation initiatives. In addition to these experiences, 5-10+ YRS of business strategy and growth consulting experience is highly desired.
Please review this position specification for this exciting new career opportunity and let us know if you either have the background required for this role and are interested to be considered or if you can refer someone you highly admire and recommend. As always, we appreciate your input and feedback.
Best,
Jeff Gundersen, CEO & Founder
Exclusive Announcement: Create a Powerhouse Personal Brand Presence That Delivers High Level Results With Executive Connection’s New “Inside Out Program”
Executive Connections is excited to announce our most powerful and all-inclusive personal brand program yet, the Brandity and CSJ developed “Inside Out Program”. Whether you are looking to strategically position yourself for your next move, transition your brand, highlight your relevancy, attract the right high-level role, or gain clarity and understand how to better leverage opportunities online and offline, the Inside Out Program is able to guide you to your goals.
In the Covid pandemic recovery period, there is an increasingly tremendous demand for talent that you can capitalize on by strategically positioning what you have to offer. With many companies headed back to the office in the latter half of 2021 either full or part time, executives are not just returning to ‘business as usual’. Workplaces may look very different, with many companies adopting the increasingly popular hybrid model of full/part time presence in the office. After over a year of very casual work-from-home style, it’s prime time to update your personal wardrobe to put your best foot forward returning to the workplace.
The Inside Out Program is uniquely designed to help you create a powerful brand presence that covers everything in your brand from ‘the Inside Out’ with your team of experts, Personal Brand Strategist& Career Transition Expert Lola White and Personal Brand Stylist Jessica Papineau. Lola and Jessica collaborate to combine the best of the Brandity and CSJ program offerings in one comprehensive program, exclusively offered through Executive Connections.
Your program begins from the Inside mindfully developing and positioning your personal brand with Personal Branding Strategist, Lola White including:
- Comprehensive personal brand and image consulting – starting with a brand audit of how you are packaging yourself presently both online and offline to determine areas of opportunity and change
- Creating clarity and direction to uniquely position what you have to offer and attract desired opportunities.
- Branded materials Redefined-Rewriting, updating and communicating your brand in a suite of new personal brand assets starting with your resume and LinkedIn, ensuring you have the desired presence you need where you need it most.
Next, comes the Outside, working on your brand image with Personal Stylist Jessica Papineau to help you to take your brand one step further. You’ll receive:
- Personal style consulting and guidance for the visual aspects of your brand.
- A full virtual closet edit creating a ‘look book’ of styled outfits.
- Photo shoot consultations
- Customized Style Boxes specifically researched and prepared for you based upon your needs and desires. (Including clothing, accessories and skin care options for you to select to augment your current wardrobe.)
At program’s end in a short 12 weeks, you’ll step out with an interest-generating, comprehensive, and succinct authentic brand presence that will put you in the driver’s seat for the next steps of your career path. The Inside Out Program was created out of high demand, and we have already begun working with a number of clients with a limited number of opportunities to add given the comprehensive and fully dedicated approach.
Please reach out to us to schedule a complimentary consultation with Lola and Jessica today. Contact Lola@brandity.com for more information.
Brandity.com division of Executive Connections, llc.
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