Strategic Initiatives Specialist

Job title: Strategic Initiatives Specialist

Company: Avalara


Job description: What You’ll Do:Are you a self-driven with strong program management skills? Join our growing Partner Program team at Avalara, where you’ll collaborate across multiple functions to deliver a best-in-class experience for our partners. This role is central to building operational and technical initiatives that drive partner growth together. You’ll manage cross-functional programs, ensuring alignment and execution, while contributing to our mission of driving profitable, sustainable growth, making it easier for partners to do business with us, and providing peace of mind throughout the process.In our agile environment, you’ll collaborate with all partners to ensure initiatives stay on track. We’re looking for someone who excels at organizing complex information, prioritizing tasks, and adapting to changing needs. Synthesize insights and inform decision-making. You’ll engage with both technical and business teams to drive alignment and achieve impactful results. What Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Program Scoping & Planning: Develop workback schedules, gather requirements, document dependencies, and itemize deliverables to ensure clarity and alignment across teams.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate regular meetings with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring initiatives are on track and driving deliverables according to timelines and scope.

• Data-Driven Reporting: Provide executive-level status updates, including risk assessments, issue escalation, and mitigation strategies, while ensuring alignment to KPIs and program metrics.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Build relationships with strategic external partners, ensuring communication and collaboration throughout program execution.

• Internal Relationship Management: Collaborate effectively with important partners across multiple functions (e.g., engineering, product management, business development) to drive alignment and execution.

• Problem Solving & Process Optimization: Proactively identify program-related challenges and implement process improvements to enhance effectiveness.

• Adaptability & Execution: Adjust and execute program plans to accommodate and ensure alignment with strategic or programmatic changes.

• Documentation & Transparency: Maintain clear, organized documentation to democratize access to information, ensuring transparency and easy access for all partners. Use creative approaches to make complex data and program details more accessible and user-friendly, supporting team understanding.
• You will be reporting to Director, Planning and Transformation/Chief of Staff
• You will need to work in Night/ US shift

What You’ll Need to be Successful:

• 3+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree

• You should organize, synthesize, and simplify complex information quickly, making it easily understandable for various audiences

• Experience in internal and external relationship management, collaborating effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders

• Passion for documentation—ensuring information is transparent, accessible for the team, while sharing best practices

• Intuitive problem solver, able to visualize solutions and create actionable plans based on insights

• Required: Confluence, Jira, PowerPoint, MS-Excel, MS-Word, or SharePoint

• Good to have; Power BI, Salesforce, Smartsheet, MS Project, SQL, other project management tools

#LI-Onsite How We’ll Take Care of You:Total RewardsIn addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.Learn more about our benefits by region here: What You Need To Know About Avalara:We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people – there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down – not until we’ve achieved our mission – to be part of every transaction in the world.We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.We’re An Equal Opportunity EmployerSupporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Expected salary:

Location: Pune, Maharashtra

Job date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 02:16:15 GMT

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