Senior Corporate Planning & Development Specialist – Cary, NC Headquarters or East Coast US
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About the job
The Office of Public Readiness and Corporate Planning seeks a candidate to lead, develop, and execute corporate development projects, with a focus on in-licensing partnerships. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in corporate development, management consulting, investment banking, and/or partnership/business development. The candidate must have extremely strong analytical, leadership, and interpersonal skills. They must also have the ability to simultaneously manage multiple cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives.
As a Senior Corporate Planning & Development Specialist you will:
- Regularly evaluate the value of existing in-licensing agreements against predefined objectives and metrics.
- Monitor compliance with agreement terms by tracking technology usage and product integration.
- Maintain a centralized, high-visibility database of business justifications across all partnerships.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to analyze market trends, data, and opportunities, supporting the enhancement of SAS’ portfolio through in-licensing.
- Conduct intake and screening for potential in-licensing agreements, including engaging with stakeholders to assess needs and define business terms.
- Manage a diverse range of high-level strategic projects, including programs focused on reviewing business and product performance.
- Drive comprehensive financial analyses, such as valuation studies and “build vs. buy vs. partner” assessments.
- Collaborate with business operations and other business units to consolidate data and measure performance against corporate goals.
- Assess the impact and overall success of partnerships and transactions to inform future strategy.
- Exercise significant autonomy in defining objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
- Ensures all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
Location: Cary, NC Headquarters or East Coast US
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field.
- A minimum of 8 years of related experience in a business environment, including experience in corporate development, product management, marketing, and/or business analysis within a cross-functional, team-oriented environment
- Experience defining, completing, and presenting business cases, financial models, marketing/alliance plans, licensing agreements, market requirements documents, and/or product portfolio assessments to an executive audience.
- Ability to create, articulate, communicate, and document partnership valuation to a diverse group of constituents.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Very strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Very strong prioritization and multi-tasking skills.
- Very strong written, verbal and visual communication skills; proven ability to effectively present to senior management
- Ability to lead corporate-level strategic projects -- working independently and as part of a team.
- An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
- You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.
Preferred qualifications
- MBA combined with a technically oriented undergraduate degree.
- Significant experience within the technology sector (ideally in enterprise software).
- Background in strategy/management consulting with a top-tier firm.
World-class benefits
Highlights include...
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include…
- PPOO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHPP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsitee Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
Diverse and Inclusive
At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are.
To put it plainly: you are welcome here.
Additional Information
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.
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