Strategy Manager

About CTM
CTM is a global award-winning provider of innovative and cost-effective travel management solutions to the corporate, events, leisure and loyalty travel markets. CTM provides personalised service excellence with client-facing technology solutions in offices all around the world, including New Zealand, Australia, Asia, North America and Europe with over 3000 employees.

At CTM, our people are our greatest asset. We are a team of collaborative, innovative and future focused professionals we work with the company's values in mind; Connect, Deliver and Evolve.

About the Role
The Strategy Manager will primarily be working with ANZ and Global Leadership to develop and deliver strategic initiatives that drive organizational success. This includes responsibilities across the whole strategy development lifecycle from issue identification, problem structuring, internal and external analysis, initiatives development, execution planning and strategy execution.

Responsibilities and Duties
  
Strategy Development

• Conduct external market analysis to understand the competitive landscape, market trends, technological landscape and anticipate disruptions and identify potential opportunities
• Structure complex problems and develop robust methodologies and frameworks to solve them
• Lead strategic projects, including market entry strategies, sales strategies, product strategies and others, in alignment with global strategic outcomes and initiatives

Strategy Execution and Steering

• Translate global and regional strategy into operational execution frameworks, aligning teams and systems around strategic pillars of revenue growth, operational efficiency and new business acceleration
• Develop execution plans and roadmaps to deliver on agreed strategies, ensuring ongoing alignment and buy-in from all stakeholders
• Lead and steer multi-stream transformation initiatives and execution plans from inception through to delivery, ensuring ongoing alignment to business strategy, cross-functional execution and ensuring transparency of results and outcomes
• Work with Sales, Client Management, Supplier Relations and other teams to jointly drive commercial strategies that elevate client value, maximize supplier revenue and are aligned to global strategic priorities

Other Leadership and Strategic Support

• Work with leadership to develop the strategic narrative, including building communications collateral to articulate the strategy
• Work with leadership to develop and prepare for business reviews (E.g., QPRs)
• Actively contribute to global executive forums, providing strategic insight, operational intelligence and leadership perspective, while ensuring ongoing alignment to global strategic priorities
• Drive strategic messaging with clarity and confidence, ensuring alignment of operational teams to CTM’s long-term vision and commercial objectives

About you

• 5+ years’ experience in strategy, consulting, or senior commercial transformation roles.
• Proven ability to design and deliver strategies that drive revenue growth and measurable ROI.
• Experience producing Board-level materials and influencing C-suite stakeholders.
• Background in travel, technology, fintech, or supplier-side industries desirable.
• MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification preferred but not essential.
• Exceptional problem structuring, financial modelling, and business case development skills.
• Strong commercial acumen in supplier economics, payments/fintech, distribution, and ESG.
• Gravitas to influence executives and Boards with clarity and impact.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with ability to craft compelling strategic narratives.
• Future-oriented thinker with ability to anticipate market shifts and identify long-term opportunities.
• Highly collaborative, adept at working across matrix global environments.

Why CTM?
As a global organisation CTM offers a range of employee benefits including:

• Travel discounts
• Perkbox - Retail, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Health & Wellness discounts
• Training and Development opportunities
• Annual Volunteer Day
• x2 Wellness/Chillout Days
• Blended work arrangements with hybrid WFH flexibility
• 2 Weeks extra leave - Purchase Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• Sonder - EAP Platform

CTM offer a strong, established and sustainable work environment which will support your career development and wellbeing.
CTM is committed to the unique contributions of all our people and actively encourage candidates with all abilities and diverse backgrounds to apply. Come work for a global award winning company that values its people, community, and technological innovation.