Manager, Enterprise Strategy ID - 14596

United States, Georgia, Atlanta

Strategy

11-Feb-2025

Ref #: 27544

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for more than a decade while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good. Employing over 100,000 people, our culture is rooted in a shared commitment to living our values – integrity, care, resilience, servant leadership – in everything we do every day. Fortune has named Delta 11 on its Most Admired Companies list and Glassdoor as one of its "Best Places to Work."

The Enterprise Strategy team is focused on driving cross-divisional value as Delta executes its strategy, building on Delta’s unique competitive advantages and strength as a leading customer brand and operator.

In the role of Manager, Enterprise Strategy, you will help develop Delta’s long-term strategic roadmap, identify transformational cross-divisional opportunities, and drive to value creation/capture. This position will also have responsibility for supporting Delta executives, Board level priorities and help oversee partnerships to meet our long-term objectives.

Primary Functions

  • Work collaboratively across enterprise teams to identify, define and plan for the most essential strategic opportunities and challenges
  • Prepare, analyze, and use data to make action-oriented recommendations and drive progress against cross enterprise programs
  • Identify and analyze important industry trends and competitive benchmarking to affirm or alter strategies as necessary
  • Distill key strategic themes, ideas, and opportunities into tangible and executable plans, initiatives, and executive communications
  • Help define, accelerate, track and monitor key cross functional programs and results while reporting on performance measures and effectiveness of implemented strategies to executive leadership and Board members
  • Develop and implement communication and change strategies that convey strategic objectives from Board of Directors to front line employees
  • Support preparation of agendas / topics / materials for Board and other executive meetings in conjunction with other business leaders
  • Identify and analyze business risks, regularly prepare executive presentations, and actively participate in meetings with cross enterprise leadership
  • Will work on additional projects as need including reporting and ad hoc analytical requests

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way.

Why You'll Love Delta

What You Need To Succeed (minimum Qualifications)

  • Demonstrated experience developing and executing strategic planning or larger scale / cross functional program management with 4+ years work experience at Delta, other large corporate entities, strategy consulting firm, investment banking or equivalent experience
  • Ability to work effectively with senior leadership on C-Suite and Board topics to drive change and achieve strategic goals, as well as executive presence and communication skills to be an effective agent of change and vision
  • Superior technical skills including quantitative and qualitative analysis, financial acumen, analytical modeling, data analysis for the purpose of assisting the exploration of strategic options and development of creative solutions to complex problems
  • Experience researching external trends, sources, information to form perspectives / points of view / recommendations given quickly changing or ambiguous topics
  • Participation in one or more organizational transformations with evidence of business change, performance improvement, growth, cost reductions
  • Ability to produce results quickly with minimal direct guidance
  • Performing satisfactory in current position, if internal
  • Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
  • Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
  • Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
  • Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (preferred Qualifications)

  • Master’s Degree in Business or a related field preferred or relevant experience
  • Advanced computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are required, modeling and analysis skills in SAS, SQL are preferred

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