Business Designer - Digital Strategy & Innovation - New Directions IT Staffing

We are currently engaged with a client who is seeking a Business Designer for a dynamic Innovations Team who will articulate how innovative consumer product offerings bring value through strategic business models and business cases.  In this role, the Business Designer will:

• Work with a team that drives innovative ideas and crafts and builds new products, offerings and services by combining strategic thinking, quantitative analysis and human centered design thinking techniques and practices.
• Develop business cases and business models for enhanced and new product offerings and solutions utilizing advanced Excel tool sets.
• Support strategic, product and business model design that includes market and financial analysis.
• Create roadmaps for pilots and scaling of new solutions while identifying which assumptions to test.  
• Work with research resources to define and execute pilots to test solution viability in-market and provide in-depth quantitative analysis of research.
• Work with Business Stakeholders, Technology Teams, Vendors and Partners to define capabilities needed and define delivery roadmaps to deliver a solution and a plan to acquire/leverage them.
• Support the Strategic Design team in understanding business flows, data analysis, business needs, and user insights when applicable.
• Identify existing workflows and integrate new offerings into the current processes; leveraging human-centered design mindset for business units, employees, and customers.

The appropriate individual will have demonstrated experience in the following:

• A background in business modeling and business case development, scenario planning, and forecasting, with deep utilization of MS Excel.  (i.e. Pivot Tables, Sensitivity Analysis, Toggles, True False, etc.)
• Data extraction, data manipulation or data visualization with tools like MicroStrategy, Microsoft PowerBI, SQL or other Business Intelligence tools. (Preferred) 
• Strong quantitative research capabilities.
• A combination of business acumen across one or more of the following areas:  Product Development or Management, Marketing, Strategy, Design, Operations, and Finance.
• A combination of strategic thinking, business ideation, quantitative analysis, modeling and or human centered design thinking techniques that craft and build new products, services and offerings. (desirable)
• A combination of product strategy, service, and innovation design.
• An understanding of strategic frameworks and approaches that include (e.g., the Strategy Choice Cascade or DVF, desirability, viability, feasibility).
• A systems thinker who is a team player, flexible contributor, optimistic, iterative, curious, and open-minded.

Intrigued?

We're happy to arrange a preliminary conversation to discuss the opportunity.  Please forward a Word copy of your resume and let us know when there would be a convenient time to discuss. 

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