Director Corporate Strategy & Development - Insurance Company - (Albany, NY)

Leading Insurance Company seeks Director of Corporate Strategy to evaluate, prioritize, and size new strategic opportunities supporting the long term business strategy development. Activities: *** Develop and maintain internal network of contacts to validate concepts, support info gathering, and facilitate socialization of ideas. *** Identify, analyze, and prioritize opportunities through extensive market and competitive research, local market sales and service knowledge, and important macro trends such as regulatory, technological, economic, social and demographic. *** Lead and facilitate the development of clear opportunities and ensure alignment of growth initiatives and opportunities with overall corporate strategy. *** Assess likely revenue and profit impacts of ideas, build business cases, and make recommendations. *** Manage strategic initiatives, partnering with other departments and functional heads as appropriate, to lead testing of new products and services in the marketplace.