Strategy manager

Introduction to the job

As a strategy manager, you drive high quality decision making within high impact projects in the complex and dynamic environment of ASML. You support, lead and facilitate project teams to enable ASML’s key decision makers to make high quality decisions.

In this role, you will join the Strategic Decision Support (SDS) department, a team that supports strategy projects within ASML. Your position is part of ASML's Finance organization and has high visibility across the entire ASML organization.

The SDS department focuses on strategic and complex business decisions across ASML. While being part of the Finance organization and through its broad scope, the SDS department is involved with and exposed to very diverse challenges such as: Capacity decisions, Footprint Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy Development, and Portfolio Development.

In this role, you will:

• Support, lead and facilitate strategy project teams and guide the teams through the necessary dialogue and analysis appropriate for the decision situation and related governance timelines
• Structure the decision situation and translate the business context into abstract analytical models for quantitative analysis (incl. Financial models)
• Prepare and communicate high quality insights to provide senior management with a solid basis for decision making
• Help internal stakeholders to apply best practices and support the Decision Quality (DQ) faculty to improve mindset towards decision making under uncertainty and build decision science and strategy capability within ASML

Typically a completed quantitative study at master or PhD level (e.g., operations research, economics, econometrics, mathematics, engineering or physics) serves as a good basis to be successful in this role. Additionally, you bring the following:

• 10+ years of experience, including strategy/management consulting from Top tier consulting firms, or similar background
• Experience in structuring, simplifying and solving strategy problems, having mastered skills such as: problem structuring, financial analysis and financial modeling (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, DCFs, etc.), managing complexity and ambiguity and strategic thinking as key learning from your past working experience
• Demonstrated seniority in facilitating senior stakeholders through a structured dialogue in a complex organization and in the field of strategy, R&D, product portfolio management, operations, supply chain management or M&A
• Demonstrated experience in leading strategy projects for senior decision-makers
• Affinity with finance or (business) economics is essential, MBA is a plus

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.

To thrive in this job, you'll need:

• Ability to lead and facilitate cross-sector project teams in situations that are highly analytically complex.
• Excellent analytical and problem structuring skills and the ability to go into detail when the situation requires to do so
• Highly empathetic nature and ability to generate and effectively communicate fact based insights with a wide range of stakeholders, and most importantly C-level decision makers
• Being are a self-aware team player, flexible and with a proactive approach you thrive in a highly demanding, dynamic environment

ASML creates the conditions that enable you to realize your full potential. We provide state-of-the-art facilities, opportunities to develop your talents, international career opportunities, a stimulating and inspiring environment, and most of all, the commitment of a company that recognizes and rewards outstanding performance.

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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