Manager, Strategy & Planning

OUC - The Reliable One, is presently seeking a Manager, Strategy & Planning to join the Transformation division. At OUC, we don't just work - we're building a bright future of innovation and transformation for future generations.

We are seeking a visionary, results-driven leader to define and drive OUC's corporate strategy and planning at the highest level. In this role, you will lead the strategy team in executing transformational initiatives that advance the organization's long-term goals, overseeing four direct reports and managing day-to-day operations. You will develop strategic roadmaps, facilitate high-impact executive workshops, provide actionable strategic intelligence briefings, and monitor performance metrics to ensure alignment with OUC's mission and objectives. As a collaborative, business-savvy leader, you will partner with senior leadership to identify, prioritize, and advance strategic opportunities, including integrated resource planning, grants management, strategic investments, new technology commercialization, and transformative projects. You will guide corporate business plan development, conduct market and competitive analyses, and translate complex financial and operational data into actionable insights. Success in this role requires navigating complexity, building strong executive partnerships, delivering measurable outcomes, and mentoring high-performing team members.

OUC is an industry leader and the second largest municipal utility in Florida committed to innovation, sustainability, and our community, OUC's mission is to provide exceptional value to our customers and community by delivering sustainable and reliable services and solutions.

Join a team of visionary Change Agents, Strategists, and Community Ambassadors who understand the vital role of diverse experiences in powering creativity and industry transformation. At OUC, each position contributes to the success and achievement of our goals. Click here to learn more about what we do.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or a related field; MBA preferred
• 7+ years of experience leading corporate strategic planning at the organizational level, including partnering with senior leaders to develop business plans, KPIs, and financial feasibility models; experience in utility, energy, or other highly regulated, capital-intensive industries preferred
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing and developing a high-performing teams
• Experience with creating data metrics, analyzing trends and risk assessments (required)
• Expertise in investment and financial analysis, feasibility studies, integrated strategic planning, and engineering/economic modeling
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to coach, influence, and build relationships across the organization
• Ability to synthesize complex financial and operational data into actionable insights and present findings to executive leadership
• Skilled in facilitating cross-functional workshops, strategic planning sessions, and executive briefings
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and experience with data visualization
• Understanding of utility operations, regulatory requirements, and the external forces impacting strategic planning (preferred)

OUC offers a very competitive compensation and benefits package. Our Total Rewards package includes, to cite a few:

• Competitive compensation
• Low-cost medical, dental, and vision benefits and paid life insurance premiums with no probationary period.
• OUC's Hybrid Retirement Program includes a fully-funded cash balance account, defined contribution with employer matching along with a health reimbursement account
• Generous paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Educational Assistance Program, to include tuition reimbursement, paid memberships in professional associations, paid conference and training opportunities
• Wellness incentives and free access to all on-site OUC fitness facilities
• Access to family-oriented recreational areas
• Paid Conference and Training Opportunities
• Free downtown parking
• Hybrid work schedule

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Salary Range: $136,000 - $170,000 annually - commensurate with experience

Location: "The Greenest Building in Downtown"- Reliable Plaza, 100 W. Anderson Street, Orlando, FL 32801

Please see below a complete Job description for this position.

Job Purpose:

Manage OUC's corporate strategy development and lead the strategic planning processes. Oversee the management of strategic programs that enable transformational capabilities for the organization, including, but not limited to: integrated resource planning, grants management, strategic intelligence and strategic investments. Lead the development of strategic roadmaps that lay out pathways for OUC to meet strategic goals. Collaborate with all levels of leadership within the organization to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and articulate strategic direction. Update OUC's strategic plan by facilitating the Executive Leadership Team's directional modifications to the strategic initiatives. Act as a liaison, develop relationships and communicate within the organization to successfully support the organization's goals and operations.

Primary Functions:

• Lead corporate strategy development and strategy planning processes; collaborate with senior leadership to identify, evaluate, and prioritize strategic initiatives; coordinate across business units to assess current capabilities and identify actions necessary to meet future opportunities;
• Oversee OUC's strategic intelligence function, including collecting and analyzing intelligence to derive insights that impact the organization at a strategic level in developing corporate strategy.
• Lead the integrated resource planning for electric and water; evaluate all supply and demand options, identify new resource technologies, identify appropriate modeling techniques and create flexible plans to deal with variations in circumstances;
• Oversee the initiation and inception of grants at OUC including but not limited to: funding opportunity identification, strategic alignment, evaluation, portfolio management, application management and other related administrative functions;
• Lead the design and development of strategic roadmaps that identify key programs and projects needed to achieve OUC's strategic goals;
• Evaluate OUC's potential participation in strategic and joint investments and agreements with other utilities, municipalities, joint action agencies and other entities;
• Identify new enabling and transformative technologies or services that have the potential to be commercialized for strategic planning purposes;
• Own the preparation of market overviews, competitive benchmarking, key performance metrics, and business evaluation of potential new business opportunities, partnerships, and other strategic optimization and growth initiatives;
• Oversee corporate business plan development projects and processes to support the planning, development, and implementation of new and enhanced products and services offered by OUC;
• Launch and facilitate strategic planning and decision making sessions with senior leadership and other leaders across business units;
• Synthesize a wide variety of financial and operational data and metrics to make recommendations; Define key metrics to track strategic initiatives leveraging balanced scorecard or other framework; Monitor, measure and inform stakeholders on plan performance against goals;
• Communicate status and progress of related initiatives to senior leadership; develop reports and prepare presentations for a variety of audiences;
• Ensure the presentation of strategic initiatives at the annual leadership meetings and all employee
• meetings are clear, transparent and appropriate;
• Partner with stakeholders to conduct post-mortem evaluation of planning processes to identify areas
• of process improvements;
• Acts as a role model for other leaders at OUC in establishing direction, teamwork, improvement, and
• innovation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Technical Requirements:

• Working knowledge of all, but not limited to, the following:
• Strategic planning
• Investment and financial analysis
• Business plan creation
• Financial statements
• Feasibility studies for corporate initiatives
• How costs impact utility rates
• Business plan development principles and methodologies
• Integrated strategic planning; power plant assets; engineering/economic modeling;
• Related industry, organizational and departmental policies, practices, and procedures; legal guidelines, ordinances, and laws;
• Familiarity with specifications for various types of power generation equipment;
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills;
• Demonstrated ability to compile information from various sources and consolidate into strategic recommendations;
• Lead teams and facilitate meetings;
• Ability to manage a project from inception to implementation;
• Apply statistics in business plan development and analytical evaluations;
• Ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals, and compute rates, ratios and percentages;
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (PPT storyboarding, Excel formulas and pivot tables, Teams collaboration); data visualization experience;

Education/ Certification/ Years of Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance or a related area of study from an accredited college or university;
• Minimum seven (7) years leading strategic planning at the organizational level and partnering with key senior leaders to create strategic business plans, key performance indicators and financial feasibility models (required);
• Minimum three (3) years leading and developing a team (required);
• Experience with creating data metrics, analyzing trends and risk assessments (required);
• Experience consulting on organizational goal setting and direction, influencing via business case management (preferred);
• Experience in the energy or related industry (preferred).

Working Conditions:

This job is absent of disagreeable work conditions.

Physical Requirements:

This job requires constant typing, reading, writing, detailed inspection. This job requires frequent standing, walking, sitting, climbing, bending/stooping etc.

OUC-The Reliable One is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed through responsible management policies to recruit, hire, promote, train, transfer, compensate, and administer all other personnel actions without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information and any other factor prohibited under applicable federal, state, and local civil rights laws, rules, and regulations.

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