Business Strategy and Operations Manager, International

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

Job Description

Come join us to drive the future growth of LinkedIn Member Growth and Engagement by tailoring global strategies to regional nuances and driving international first strategies.

This role will be based in our London office. At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

LinkedIn is looking for a Manager of Business Strategy & Operations to lead strategic workstreams on the international Business Operations team focused on LinkedIn Member Growth and Engagement. In this role, you will partner with leaders across the R&D and Go-to-Market organization (both regional and global leaders). This role requires strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and analytical skills with solid business experience backed by both intuition and data.

Responsibilities:

• Independently leading workstreams to solve the most important R&D and GTM strategy and business questions relevant to International Member Growth and Engagement
• Driving data-driven analysis, sizing strategic opportunities, prioritizing projects
• Identifying growth and operational leverage opportunities, building the business case for change, and working extensively with multiple stakeholders (both within global business operations teams as well relevant leaders) to implement these opportunities
• Providing thought partnership to regional leaders and business partner teams in APAC, EMEA and LATAM on growth, operations, and organization topics
• Coaching team members, extending a collaborative team culture, and supporting team members’ development goals

Qualifications

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of general work experience
• 2+ years of experience in management consulting/ strategy consulting or strategy & operations
• 3+ years of experience with Excel, SQL and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or other advanced degrees
• Experience in the social media, B2C businesses and/or in the tech/ digital space
• Experience driving Product strategy
• Structured thinking: Ability to structure and analyze problems effectively, facilitate alignment on key strategic decisions among various stakeholders, and identify 80/20 opportunities to reach insightful, implementable, and impactful answers.
• Senior stakeholder management experience: Able to have a strong, independent voice to push teams’ thinking while able to build trust-based relationships across the company to drive alignment
• Excellent communication skills: Need solid written and verbal communications skills and presence to be able to facilitate discussions and communicate insights with senior-level leaders
• High-energy, team-first, positive attitude: Must be motivated to work hard in a fast-paced environment

Suggested Skills:

• Strategic thinking
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems
• Leadership/Inclusive Leadership

Additional Information

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