Senior Strategy Manager/ Executive Assistant (all genders)
Köln, Baden-Baden
Vollzeit
Festanstellung
Job overview
As Senior Strategy Manager/ Executive Assistant (all genders), you will work closely with the executive team, leading strategic planning and spearheading key business development initiatives. You’ll play a vital role in shaping the company’s long-term vision, ensuring it’s executed effectively, and shaping innovation initiatives and embedding process excellence across the organization. Additionally, you’ll support high-level decision-making, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help steer the future direction of the company. Here is what you will do in detail:
What you'll do
- Strategic Planning & Execution: Lead the commercial and customer experience strategy, as well as the overall company strategy for the tour operator business, providing clear strategic direction and guardrails, and ensuring shared ownership through a collaborative strategy process.
- Market & Competitive Analysis: Collect, analyze, and actively embed market trends, competitor positioning, commercial performance, and innovation insights to develop and evaluate strategic options
- Business Development: Evaluate new strategic growth opportunities, and identify new markets and business segments within the travel and tourism industry, and efficiency gains and process improvements to optimize company profitability
- Stakeholder Management: Build collaborative relationships across teams, maintain alignment with corporate strategy, and ensure effective communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Performance Monitoring: Develop KPIs and monitor the performance of strategic initiatives through data-driven analysis and regular reporting
- Company Steering: Link strategic long-term goals with annual & quarterly targets processes and facilitate an effective and transparent target steering process across the organization
- Executive Support: Assist the executive management team in decision-making, strategic prioritization, and execution of key initiatives.
- Project Management: Lead selected strategic projects from concept to implementation readiness, including a smooth transition into line responsibility.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Strategy, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in strategy development, business development, or management consulting as well as operational experience in a core discipline in the tour operator business (ideally Product management)
- Solid knowledge of strategic planning frameworks, company steering methodologies and process management
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate with senior leadership
What you'll bring
- Strong analytical skills with a data-driven mindset and ability to derive insights from complex information
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Passion for innovation, a strong eye for process efficiency, and the ability to facilitate teams in driving process improvements and automation