Director, Strategy

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers and our customers’ customers to make better, more confident decisions. What You'll Do Develop, maintain, refresh, and extend our company strategy, in collaboration with our internal team, external advisors, and stakeholders across the organization. Ongoingly sense and synthesize relevant market, competitive, employee, customer and partner insights to inform and execute the strategy. Develop materials to support alignment on the strategy with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and the Board. Support the translation of strategic shifts that underlie the strategy into various approaches in our strategic execution framework. Contribute to the development of robust annual functional strategic and operation plans in line with our strategy. Contribute to execution of relevant stages of our M&A strategy in collaboration with the Corporate Development group and other functions. Ongoingly identify issues, suggest improvements and contribute to improving our strategic execution framework. Be a convincing advocate for our strategy, engaging to listen and influence other parts of the organization. Develop, maintain and excite a network of leaders who are key to implementing our strategy. Develop, maintain and improve the assets communicating our strategy internally. Lead sessions to articulate and engage on our strategy in various relevant forums. Support relevant leaders in various business functions in articulating our strategy in internal forums. Ongoingly proactively identify opportunities to improve our strategic execution. Contribute to the definition, alignment and execution of deep dives to action the identified opportunities. Dynamically adjust to evolving priorities to have the maximum impact on our business outcomes. Become seen as a reliable strategic thinker on topics of strategic importance to Teradata. Develop a trusted advisor relationship with key leaders. Contribute to programs to instill strategic thinking and approaches in relevant groups. Deploy leadership judgement that tends to increase the profile and credibility of the Strategy function. Role model what living by our Core Principles and commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) means as a leader. Contribute to a team environment of trust, openness, accountability to deliver meaningful outcomes. What Makes You a Qualified Candidate BS/BA degree or equivalent; MBA degree preferred. 10+ years of relevant experience, ideally within large scale tech/software companies or advisory firms serving those companies. What You'll Bring Experience leading cross-functional teams in driving best in class strategy development processes. Familiarity with the tech/software market landscape. Experience leading discussions and aligning with key leaders. Experience with strategic execution programs based on cross-functional collaboration. Experience leading or co-leading companywide long-range and annual planning. Demonstrated experience with relevant parts of M&A processes. Experience with the strategic design, execution, and ongoing maintenance of performance management systems. Facility with balancing across the need to build consistency and reliability in our approaches. Experience leveraging a broad influencing toolkit to effect change. Experience leading high-performing teams in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment. Experience acting as a trusted advisor to key leaders. Experience running objective assessments of the performance of strategic imperatives. Demonstrated leadership values and behavior consistent with our Core Principles and commitment to DEI. Pay Rate:

$173,900.00 - $221,700.00 - $269,600.00 Annually Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon any legally protected status. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on geographic location, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and candidate experience. Learn more about Teradata’s competitive Total Rewards package at

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