Your Job
Koch Industries is looking for a Senior Manager Strategy & Design to add to their Strategy & Business Design service area for the Koch Business Transformation (KBT) team. This service area applies customer-centric design practices to help facilitate business leaders through a process of gaining vision and strategy alignment, defining outcomes and value, developing target operating models, identifying major capability gaps, and defining work that needs to be accomplished to achieve key business outcomes.
Our Team
The Koch Business Transformation Team (KBT) is an internal team that accelerates transformation in the Koch companies. We partner with senior leaders to support large transformation efforts and empower them to achieve their business outcomes. We do this by addressing success factors early in the transformation journey, building capability, and targeting critical phases with appropriate support to create profitable outcomes (engagements, knowledge sharing, and application of relevant tools, principles, and frameworks).
We are constantly working on our craft and developing more effective services, capabilities, and approaches that enable us to be better partners to the Koch companies.
What You Will Do
Deliver Engagements and or Advise Business Leaders
- Help business leaders define and lead transformation efforts that support customer and employee-centric outcomes
- Participate on cross-functional project teams to deliver top quality engagements across Koch that focus on vision and strategy articulation, outcome and bet definition, capability gap identification, transformation strategy, target operating model development, roadmap design, and experimentation.
- Help build capability inside the Koch companies so they can sustain value capture from their bets
- Use a range of tools and methods to help lead and facilitate business leaders to overcome obstacles and solution problems in a way that drives progress, improves knowledge exchange and ways of working, and accelerates value capture.
- Facilitate and lead strategic business design discussions with key customer stakeholders
- Plan working sessions and develop assets to deliver targeted outcomes
- Conduct stakeholder interviews and synthesize findings
- Work closely with KBT leaders to help Koch's businesses maximize and accelerate value of their highest value transformation programs.
- Contribute to the formal development of business design practice tools, methodologies, and applications, and inspire innovative approaches and techniques
- Help evangelize learnings, insights, connections, and recommendations across businesses, disciplines, and departments.
- Leverage principles and frameworks to identify best courses of action.
- Apply economic thinking to identify alternatives, understand tradeoffs, and make valuable decisions and help others learn to do the same.
- "Human Obsessed", ability to demonstrate empathy, putting individual stakeholders and / or customers at the center of everything you do.
- A Strategy Leader, who is able to quickly navigate and understand large unstructured bodies of information, rapidly getting to conversational fluency around an industry, market, or process and is able to connect business vision and strategy to effective action.
- A Systems Thinker (Dot Connector), who is constantly connecting and synthesizing in pursuit of concrete outcomes and value. Thinking at the ecosystem level and making valuable connections comes second nature to you.
- A Collaborator who is relentlessly curious, constantly asking why and seeking understanding, alignment, and co-creation from a range of stakeholders.
- A Facilitator, who spearheads activities on projects, including workshops, target operating model design, and roadmap development.
- A Storyteller, who can frame and tell the story of strategy to action. Present the communication of research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and experience design rationale both verbally and visually.
- A Principled Entrepreneur, who is contribution minded, practices a philosophy of mutual benefit and demonstrates integrity, humility, and respect.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience communicating with and influencing senior leaders
- Experience leading cross-functional project teams
- Bachelors Degree
- Willingness to travel approximately 25%
What Will Put You Ahead
- 10 years experience
- Management consulting experience (strategy, customer experience, service design, process improvement)
- Business architecture experience
- Experience identifying opportunities to apply artificial intelligence
- MBA
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch Industries creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.
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