Functional Strategy Generalist
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$91.14-124.28 Hourly
Start Date:
09.22.2025
As a Functional Strategy Generalist, you contribute to core-problem structuring, owning research, data gathering, business insight, and analytic depth to support larger, more integrated, and complex strategic and operational initiatives within the PA, function, or sub-function. You interact regularly with PA, function, or sub-function stakeholders to persuasively communicate recommendations to area leadership, and influence decisions by building consensus and mobilizing towards implementation. You serve as a subject-matter specialist for a PA or functional goals, direction, and priorities, with comprehensive knowledge of how the business area fits broadly into the company, as well as its existing OKRs, KPIs, business plans, and operating plans.
Responsibilities include:
– Manage key initiatives from inception to completion, including team-wide initiatives on projects to drive alignment and increase velocity.
– Work closely with function leaders, product managers, and product area leadership to drive operationalization of recommendations.
– Synthesize, understand, and make recommendations regarding trends in the future of work, including designing business strategy and technology strategy in tandem, translating market insights into action, shortening of strategic planning cycles, transforming digital and agile development, and tapping into ecosystem partners.
– Proactively identify defined problems and issues across the PA, function, or sub-function and create programs and processes to solve them. Structure defined and sometimes vague business issues for leadership team, and develop solutions to business and technical problems by documenting key requirements and supporting business case justification.
– Support executives in defining overall communications strategy across the function and regions, driving the planning of internal events and aligning internal communications.
– Establish and drive processes for effectively defining the function (e.g., OKRs, QBRs, annual planning, team meetings, budget, expenses).
– Manage workflows within the targeting and measurement processes, driving collaboration and engagement across stakeholders both to ensure timely and accurate delivery of work.
– Make recommendations regarding the development of PA, function, and/or sub-function strategies, collaborating with business area stakeholders.
– Drive strategic analysis, defining ways to optimize business performance and ensure best-in-class execution within relevant PA, function, or sub-function.
– Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and problem solve effectively, driving the development of compelling business recommendations.
Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:
– Effective questioning
– KPIs
– Change management
– Business insights and analysis
– leadership alignment and stakeholder influence
– Business area knowledge
– Systems analysis
– Project management skills
– Data analysis
– Stakeholder management
– Negotiation
Project Overview: Help track key milestones for critical business projects; Build annual plan and go-to-market (GTM) strategies for Ads marketing businesses.
Overall Responsibilities: Help develop and align on annual business plans with stakeholders, requiring working with Google slides and spreadsheets. Analyse data to build opportunity sizing and business cases to feed into the said business plans. Drive first-principles thinking to drive scale-up of proven marketing strategies.
Education: Bachelors (MBA preferred)
Years of Experience: 7 years of past experience in Strategy & Ops types of roles, and/or ex-Consulting background
Client Description
A giant in the Tech Industry, this company’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This company is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything they do—from how they build their products to how they build their workforce. Consistently named one of Forbes top employers, this company works hard to attract, retain and progress the best Talent.
A career here gives you the opportunity to be part of something bigger:
Expanding Opportunity – Providing people with information, tools and services to help them build knowledge, fuel curiosity, and unlock opportunity.
Protecting Users – Keeping billions of people safer online.
Including all Voices – Building a world where progress, equitable outcomes, diversity, and inclusion can be realities both inside and outside our workplace.
Responding to Crisis – Helping those affected by crisis through products, people and partners.
Advancing Sustainability – Unifying practices, partnerships, and products around a single mission — to foster sustainability at scale.
Are you ready to join the journey?
Why work with AQUENT? Check out our awesome benefits: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.