Sr Director, Strategic Initiatives

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Sr Director, Strategic Initiatives

The Sr Director, Strategic Initiatives is a key member of the Commercial Senior Leadership team and will be instrumental in providing insights, guidance, and coordination to the team with a heavy focus on critical strategy and initiatives. Individual serves as the focal point for matters of collaboration among the leadership team, and the principal point of coordination with adjacent business units. Highly influential, this position requires significant collaboration with other cross functional senior leadership across the Enterprise, in addition to strong communication skills and the ability to motivate and lead all levels through change. This role requires one to work with leaders to build a Vision, Strategy, Execution for the 1-3 year direction. It will also require one to work with the solutions team to build a roadmap based on vertical requirements including customer and partner engagement. 

Key Skills, Requirements and Competencies:

Candidates must have the ability to process a great deal of information quickly, acting with the best interest of the team and other senior leaders. Also required are strong analytical skills, ability to work with other influential thought-leaders and ability to lead through change. 

Business Expertise:

• Obtain information and analyze trends.

• Provide change leadership.

• Drive implementation of initiatives.

• Effectively interact and communicate at all levels of the organization.

• Engage and interact with large customers (executive level) on a wide range of initiatives, topics and issues.

• Manage multiple high-visibility, high-impact strategic initiatives to successful conclusions.

• Accurately and responsibly gauge business risks and rewards (i.e., take “intelligent risks”) and lead the resulting decisions and actions to productive outcomes.

• Consider both short- and long-term business impacts, when creating strategy.

• Manage detail in a fast-paced and lean organization, sometimes with cost and system constraints.

• Experience working in strategic planning, marketing, finance or strategy functions.

Leadership: 

• Capable of creating and communicating a vision, using inspirational leadership and motivation.

• Strong demonstrated experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders.

• This individual will interface with all levels of the organization and should have the ability to make decisions based on what is best for Iron Mountain and in consideration of the long-term advancement of the organization.

• As a key representative and leader of the company, and frequent interface with senior executives, serves as a role model of integrity, having a positive attitude, being mission-driven, requiring high business standards and professionalism.

Problem Solving: 

This position requires significant proactive issue identification and advanced problem solving for the benefit of our customers as well as improving internal processes.

Nature of Impact:

This role acts as a confidant and advisor to the SVP, often working behind the scenes to solve challenges, mitigate issues and mediate disputes from escalating.

Area of Impact:

Interacting across multiple functional areas, this role will increase interdepartmental efficiencies. All levels of the organization will likely be affected by results of executed initiatives and personnel changes implemented at this level.

Interpersonal Skills:

Capable of interfacing effectively at all levels vertically and laterally within a large and matrixed organization. Communicates clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing; makes effective presentations. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships (both in person and over the phone) with those contacted during the course of work, including customers and leaders throughout the entire organization.