Assistant Director

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Advanced Strategic Insights

The opportunity

As part of the Advanced Strategic Insights team, you will convert complex financial, operational and market information into clear, decision-relevant insights for GDS leadership. The role will support enterprise-wide priorities by identifying performance trends, developing hypotheses, evaluating strategic choices and translating analysis into concise executive narratives. Success requires strong financial acumen, advanced analytical capability and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through evidence-based insights.

The role

This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct people-management responsibility. The Assistant Director will independently lead the development of advanced strategic insights across business performance, growth, operating model, workforce and transformation priorities.

The individual will work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to frame ambiguous questions, integrate multiple data sources and deliver recommendations that inform strategic and commercial decisions. The role requires leadership through subject-matter expertise, influence and ownership of complex deliverables rather than through formal team management.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead high-impact strategic insight engagements across growth, financial performance, market expansion, operating model, workforce, location strategy, alliances and transformation priorities.
• Frame business questions, develop hypotheses and structure analytical approaches that move beyond descriptive reporting to explain drivers, implications and potential actions.
• Analyse financial and operational performance, including revenue, cost, margin, productivity, utilization, investment, capacity and other relevant business metrics.
• Build robust financial models, scenario analyses, sensitivity assessments and business cases to evaluate strategic choices and quantify financial impact.
• Synthesise large and complex datasets into clear trends, insights, risks, opportunities and leadership-level recommendations.
• Develop executive-ready PowerPoint presentations with a compelling storyline, message-led headlines and clear articulation of the so what.
• Create and maintain advanced Excel-based analytical models, trackers and decision-support tools with strong data integrity and quality controls.