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About the Role
In this role, you will work at the forefront of defining the company's strategic direction. Through rigorous analysis, customer focus, creative thinking, and business partnerships, you will shape the strategy for our brand portfolio, identify growth opportunities, and prepare executives for stakeholder meetings. You will establish necessary initiatives and capabilities for competitive advantage and future growth, prioritize efforts, and ensure supportive structures are in place. Understanding the competitive landscape and optimal market positioning will be key. You will leverage customer insights, journey mapping, and analytics to validate strategies and ensure customer needs are met. You will lead strategic change initiatives and collaborate to align brand and functional strategies for execution.
Responsibilities
- Partner with leaders to inform and influence business strategies, including pricing, brand architecture, infrastructure, channels, and new markets.
- Vet new ideas against expected outcomes and consumer needs, conducting journey mapping to validate business opportunities.
- Identify and deconstruct business issues, developing frameworks to evaluate strategies.
- Articulate clear and compelling storylines that drive action; structure and monitor the work of multiple groups and projects.
- Develop and lead transformation efforts.
- Serve as a strategic partner as Brands develop annual Long Range Plans.
- Support cross-functional business partners with analytical insights and problem-solving.
- Build cross-functional partnerships and consensus.
Requirements
- Strategy consulting and corporate strategy experience with deep knowledge of apparel, retail, customer, and digital.
- Experience with a product company is preferred.
- Passion for Product and Consumer Experience.
- Experience with progressive and innovative consumer insights efforts.
- Demonstrated success in advancing and growing businesses globally.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills; ability to frame new, ambiguous, and complex issues; ability to generate insight through rigorous analysis.
- Experience with turnaround and transformation efforts, including business model innovation, operating systems development, large-scale cost improvements, and organizational restructures and effectiveness.
- Strong leadership abilities, including the ability to develop talent and build a high-performing team.
- Strong influence skills and ability to work successfully with peers; a true team player.
- Ability to work effectively with senior executives.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Desire and ability to work in a matrixed organization.
Skills
- Strategy consulting
- Corporate strategy
- Apparel industry knowledge
- Retail industry knowledge
- Customer insights
- Digital strategy
- Product company experience
- Consumer experience
- Consumer insights
- Business growth
- Problem-solving
- Analytical skills
- Strategic thinking
- Transformation efforts
- Business model innovation
- Operating systems development
- Cost improvement
- Organizational restructuring
- Leadership
- Talent development
- Team building
- Influence skills
- Collaboration
- Executive communication
- Presentation skills
- Matrixed organization navigation