VP, Strategic Planning

Countrywide Financial Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, is a nationwide financial services company. As a national leader in residential finance, we're recognized as an innovator of new financial products and services.

Vice President, Strategic Planning
The Strategic Planning Department provides strategy-based planning, consulting and advisory services that enable Countrywide, its subsidiaries and divisions to develop, align, communicate and execute strategies and measure their success.
The Vice President within the Corporate Strategy and Planning Group, partners with senior
management to address a variety of corporate strategic issues, with a focus on disciplined
management of long term profitable growth, diversification of the markets and products in which we compete, relationship strategies with customers and business partners, and definition of strategies related to cross-segment business issues.
Duties involve scoping, planning and executing research and analysis to support corporate strategy decisions, contributing to building and managing the long term corporate strategic vision and plan, building and managing relationships with senior executives, supporting alignment and communication around the corporate strategy, performing special projects on corporate strategy issues, and making presentations to management regarding analysis, findings, and recommendations.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Corporate strategy project-based research and analysis.
- Corporate strategic plan development and support.
- Special projects.
- Professional development.
A successful candidate will have:
- 7+ years of professional work experience.
- 5+ years of post-graduate (Masters) work experience in a corporate strategy or
strategy consulting environment.
- MBA preferably from a leading business school.
- Deep experience addressing corporate-level, external-facing strategic issues.
- Proven problem solving, conceptual thinking, and analytical abilities.
- Proven ability to scope, plan and execute project-based research and analysis.
- Prior experience in a strategy consulting firm or internal corporate strategy group.
- Strong executive-level communications skills.
- Financial Services experience strongly preferred.




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