Summary

The Strategic Planning Director, NextGear Capital is a strategic partner and advisor to the President Financial Solutions and NextGear Capital Senior Leadership team responsible for determining, articulating, and executing strategic initiatives to drive business impacts in the NextGear organization. This role works cross functionally and in partnership with the executive support team to enable business operations.

As a member of the NextGear Capital senior leadership team, the Strategic Planning Director directly supports daily and long-term activities and projects advancing the NextGear Capital agenda to ensure that all are effectively moving according to plan objectives and established milestones and measurement criteria.

The ideal candidate will have the acumen to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously mixing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands on the operations. He or she must also have the demonstrated ability to deal with highly confidential information and act as a liaison between the President and other constituencies, both internal and external.

While the Strategic Planning Director will not have direct reports, he/she must exhibit the skills to collaborate with and achieve actionable results through others, the ability to build strong and sustainable relationships and the ability to interact within all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Participate as a member of the NextGear Capital leadership team and contribute to major plans and decisions that affect the entire organization.
• Work with President and senior leadership to build and leverage strategic, collaborative relationships with internal and external parties.
• Partner with the President and senior leadership team to set the direction for strategic initiatives; ensure organizational alignment and elimination of wasteful practices.
• Lead by example, setting a tone of transparency, integrity, and service; generate positive energy in the organization.
• Perpetuate a culture of personal responsibility and accountability.
• Represent and communicate on behalf of the President and Operations leadership team to various audiences with knowledge, professionalism, and tact.
• Act as sounding board for President.
• Serve as steward of highly confidential information and act as a trustworthy liaison on behalf of the President and senior leadership on key matters.
• Partner with President and senior leaderships in developing communications, setting agendas, creating initial drafts of communications to key strategic audiences, prioritizing plans to address issues impacting progress to achieve objectives.
• Stay connected with key leaders, alerting the VP to progress or challenges in carrying out initiatives
• Manage company-wide initiatives on behalf of the organization (strategic planning, organizational performance, talent management, other employee engagement opportunities).
• Design and implement tools that support the President and senior leadership team in monitoring organizational performance, trending critical metrics and making data-driven decisions.
• Participate in capital budget and annual business planning process.

Required Experience & Skills

• Bachelor's degree and minimum 10 years' experience or Master's degree and 8 years' experience or PhD and 5+ years' experience or 14 years' relevant work experience without a degree.
• 5+ years demonstrated experience managing multiple and diverse projects and assignments in an executive environment.
• A strong track record of effectively managing people and programs.
• Ability to exercise good judgment, tact, professionalism and diplomacy.
• Demonstrated business understanding and working knowledge of best practices.
• Proficient in coaching others and offering sound insight and advice to enable leader effectiveness.
• Strategic thinker with passion for business and an ability to think creatively and analytically.
• Strong knowledge of auto industry required.
• Collaborative mindset with ability to utilize relevant data, statistics, and expert advisors to ensure relevance and effectiveness solutions.
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter with strong point of view and ability to deliver and execute vision is required.
• Strong Leadership and problem-solving skills to assist with the daily operations of an organization.
• Proficient in MS Excel, Office, Word, PowerPoint and other Smartsheet tools.
• Strong written and verbal presentation, communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills required.
• Demonstrated ability to work across a broad range of internal and external constituents and cultures.
• Ability to travel up to 15% (day and overnight) as needed is required.
• Must live in Carmel, IN and willing to work in office 3 days per week.

Competencies for Success

Delivers Value to the Business - Understand the business and how Project / Program can influence decision making for positive results.

Change Champion - Actively enabling and leading change and innovation

Creates an Inclusive Environment - Ensures management and business decisions leverage the capabilities of employees from all backgrounds, cultures, styles, abilities, and motivation

Trusted Advisor and Coach - Gains other people's trust by "doing the right things", demonstrating reliability and authenticity in relationships, and building credibility within our profession to advise and coach others to drive positive business impact.

Trailblazer - Drives creativity into solutions to enable results for the business. Challenges the status quo to optimize results and ways of working and demonstrates agility when the business pivots.

USD 163,400.00 - 272,300.00

Compensation:

Compensation includes a base salary of $163,400.00 - $272,300.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits:

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.