Strategic Planning Analyst
Job Title: Strategic Planning Analyst
Location: San Francisco, New York or Seattle
Job Summary:
The Strategic Planning Analyst will be responsible for developing and analyzing organizational growth strategies. The main objective is to complete thorough analyses of the organization's business goals and identify helpful and harmful factors related to completing these goals. This position suggests changes to current business plans, procedures, and policies based on the analysis of potential benefits and risks of implementing new strategies. He/she will be responsible for developing reports discussing all changes or improvements that the business needs to reach its goals, including in areas such as funding decisions, staffing, and procedures.
Major Responsibilities:
- Responsible for overseeing the coordinated planning and implementation of company initiatives responding to the needs of the senior management, major opportunities, and other policy and operational issues;
- Bring new and innovative thinking, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure effective implementation of strategic planning, results-based management systems and processes;
- Work closely with senior management, the position will facilitate the translation of relevant company strategies and other policy intents into viable integrated tasks and priorities;
- Creates valuable, transformative business strategies by leveraging predictive/ analytical modeling, data mining, and research from large scale, complex data sets;
- Work on insightful business analysis that evaluates the damage prevention industry and regulatory environments for best practices, standards, benchmarks and trends;
- Leads strategic analysis in key areas to identify trends, and creation of executive summaries for senior management;
- Continuous evaluation of process, data, timeline effectiveness to provide recommendations on increasing effectiveness of results;
- Performs other duties as assigned or as necessary.
Qualifications:
- MBA in Strategy, Corporate Finance or related area;
- Minimum 1 to 3 years of experience in real estate or strategic consulting industry;
- Proven capacity to lead strategic planning, results-based management framework development and execution, and process and system design;
- Financial statement analysis skills;
- Predictive/analytical modeling, data mining, and research from large scale, complex data sets
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines with quality;
- Ability to apply critical thinking and analysis (forward thinking) to work product;
- Strong communication (oral & written) skills;
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to promote change;
- Bilingual Chinese preferred.
About Gemdale:
Gemdale USA Corporation ("Gemdale USA") is a real estate investment and development
company headquartered in Pasadena, California, with additional offices in New York City, San
Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and Dallas. The company develops commercial, multifamily rental
and for-sale residential projects, with multifamily rental and office either stand alone or mixeduse
with retail. For-sale residential developments may include condominiums, single-family
attached homes as well as detached housing.
Gemdale USA Corporation is the United States subsidiary of Gemdale Corporation, one of
China’s largest and leading real estate developers, founded in 1988 and listed on the Shanghai
Stock Exchange (600383.SH) in 2001. Gemdale Corporation is renowned for being a large-scale
national property developer in China with highly regarded projects throughout the country.
While Gemdale’s roots are in the residential condominium sector, with over 74,000 residential
condominium units built and sold in 31 major cities in China in 2016 alone, Gemdale has also
embarked in recent years on commercial/mixed-use developments as well as real estate private
equity funds management. Gemdale has received numerous real estate industry awards over the
years, including “Top 10 China Listed Real Estate Companies in terms of Comprehensive
Strength,” “Blue Chip Property Developers in China,” and the “Most Valuable Listed Real
Estate Enterprise in China,” amongst other honors.