Director of Strategy & Business Development

Your Job

The Strategy & Business Development group at Georgia‑Pacific is one of the most dynamic teams within the company! The department focuses its efforts on partnering with the company's senior executives to answer the most pressing strategic questions. The team is focused on providing broad, strategic vision for Georgia‑Pacific/Koch Industries, including both organic growth strategy and acquisition/divestiture strategy.

We are seeking a Director, SBD, to join our onsite team at our GP HQ in downtown Atlanta, GA. This is a highly visible role that requires cultivating relationships and collaborating across several capabilities. We are seeking local applicants, or candidates that are willing to relocate to the area.

What You Will Do

• Capability Development & Execution/Acceleration: Create analytical and conceptual frameworks to help line managers with their strategic decision making. This will support the financial analyses, POV development, vision development, etc. These will include price optimization, benchmarking, and best practice sharing. The candidate should be able to create quantitative analysis to determine the values of qualitative and subjective POVs.
• Transformation Support: Assisting leaders to identify transformational opportunities and to drive organizational progress in achieving step‑change performance.
• Market & Competitive Analysis: Continuously assess GP business segment and adjacent markets. Develop or lead others to develop value chain analysis and determination of price setting mechanisms. Assist in competitor analysis. Develop the Georgia Pacific Point of View (POV) for a segment within a GP Business.
• Product & Brand Strategy: Assist with developing sound strategic decisions that will result in growth for both top and bottom lines for one GP division. Provide strategic assistance in such areas as understanding the channel, effective pricing, capturing market share, channel mapping, and creating new value‑add services (go‑to‑market strategy).
• Business Development (M&A): Provide broad, strategic and analytical input into potential mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures to ensure maximum returns on invested capital and consistency with the company's overall vision. Develop the business case for potential acquisitions and divestitures by spearheading both the strategic due diligence and valuation initiatives of a transaction.
• Advance our Principle-Based Management culture by applying and reinforcing the company's Core Values and Principles.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Combination of experience in strategic consulting, strategic planning/corporate development, business development, and/or growth strategy.
• Management consulting experience (Bain, McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, or similar).
• Bachelor's degree in business or other discipline that requires quantitative knowledge.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in manufacturing industry (consumer products, packaging, building products, or similar).
• Experience leading teams.

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.

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 click here for additional information. (For Illinois E‑Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).