Strategic Planning and Business Development Lead

1 month ago


Richmond, Greater London, United Kingdom RX Full time
About the Role

As a key member of the RX team, you will play a critical role in supporting global strategy formulation and driving execution. Your responsibilities will include identifying and delivering attractive growth opportunities, driving strategic projects, and conducting strategic research analysis. You will also act as a catalyst for innovation and change, encouraging long-term customer-first growth across all teams.

Responsibilities
  1. Strategic Planning and Delivery:
    • Develop insight into changing customer needs and competitor developments to enable strategic recommendation to the ELT for RX to maximize growth opportunities.
    • Define key strategic issues and challenges to be addressed and develop recommended strategic solutions and plans to maximize RX Global performance.
    • Maintain a data-driven understanding of the RX global event portfolio and make recommendations to shape the portfolio for sustainable high performance.
    • Maintain an understanding of the events industry and landscape, complementary industries and RX businesses and offering.
    • Manage multiple research/analysis requests and projects concurrently, ensuring RX Global remains abreast of current operating and industry landscapes, and are poised to respond as quickly as needed.
  2. Strategic Projects:
    • Deliver strategic projects across the RX Global business, and across a wide variety of topics, disciplines and functions, to achieve strong return on investment.
    • Support Business Development initiatives with clear data driven insights and recommendations.
  3. Change and Innovation:
    • Develop robust working relationships with stakeholders from across the global organisation, to ensure connectivity to current RX operations and business performance.
    • Enable a culture of innovation, long-term thinking and customer focus, agitating for change and being a positive catalyst for growth.
    • Develop content for in-house strategy meetings, such as Senior Management Meetings.
    • Demonstrate comfort with data and an ability through analysis to identify potential areas of significant business value for a company.
    • Demonstrate excellent organizational/project management skills working with multiple groups across geographies and cultures.
    • Willingness to take risks and bold moves, experiment when tackling new problems, remain curious and open to different perspectives, and learn from both successes and failures.
    Work in a way that works for you We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
    • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
      • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.
      • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits.
      • Wellbeing programs.
      • Life assurance.
      • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme.
      • Save As You Earn share option scheme.
      • Travel Season ticket loan.
      • Electric Vehicle Scheme.
      • Optional Dental Insurance.
      • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave.
      • Employee Assistance Programme.
      • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children.
      • Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work.
      About the Business RX is a global leader in events and exhibitions, leveraging industry expertise, data, and technology to build businesses for individuals, communities, and organisations. RX empowers businesses to thrive by leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. p>

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