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About the Role
The Strategy Manager will support the Strategy & Corporate Development Director in decision support, execution tracking, market intelligence, and cross-functional alignment. This role involves owning the strategic agenda by building models, dashboards, and materials to inform executive decisions, tracking high-impact initiatives, and producing insights to shape the business's global strategy in the fragrance and beauty space.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain financial and commercial models for strategic decisions, including business cases, scenario modeling, market sizing, and channel/portfolio economics.
- Own recurring business performance reporting, transforming data into clear views of growth, margin, and operational health.
- Pressure-test assumptions and recommendations with data, providing structured go/no-go inputs for new market, channel, and category opportunities.
- Prepare high-quality executive and board-level materials that translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations.
- Manage the tracking and reporting rhythm for the strategic project portfolio, including milestones, owners, risks, dependencies, and status.
- Drive follow-through on actions and decisions from leadership forums to keep initiatives progressing.
- Proactively flag risks and slippage with proposed solutions.
- Support the Director in designing and operating the business operating rhythm, including leadership forums, strategy reviews, and planning cycles.
- Own ongoing market, competitor, and consumer intelligence for the global fragrance and beauty category, covering launches, pricing, distribution, M&A, and trends.
- Deliver regular intelligence briefings focused on "so what" insights tied to Kayali's positioning and strategic choices.
- Build and maintain the data and insight infrastructure for the strategy function, incorporating AI-enabled research and monitoring.
- Act as a liaison across Marketing, Commercial, Product Development, Operations, Tech, People and Culture, and Finance to align priorities, timelines, and interdependencies for strategic initiatives.
- Prepare and coordinate materials, pre-reads, and follow-ups for cross-functional and leadership meetings.
- Support high-priority projects for the Director and CEO office, including expansion feasibility and investor/board preparation.
Requirements
- Approximately 3-5 years of experience in strategy consulting or an in-house strategy, insights, or commercial role at a high-growth consumer brand.
- Strong finance backgrounds (FP&A, corporate finance, commercial finance) are also welcome.
- Exposure to beauty, fragrance, luxury, or premium consumer categories is strongly preferred.
- Proven track record of producing executive-grade work efficiently and to a high standard.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, minimal supervision, and shifting priorities in a fast-paced, founder-led environment.
- Exhibits low ego and high ownership, willing to perform various tasks from building business cases to polishing board slides.
Skills
- Financial modeling
- Commercial modeling
- Business case development
- Scenario modeling
- Market sizing
- Channel economics
- Portfolio economics
- Performance reporting
- Data analysis
- Executive material preparation
- Project tracking
- Risk management
- Market intelligence
- Competitor intelligence
- Consumer intelligence
- AI-enabled research
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Project management
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Premium Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- Find your Magic Days
- Volunteer Day
- Birthday Leave
- Employee discounts on all KAYALI products
- Quarterly product gifting
About the Company
- Fueled by passion, KAYALI was founded in 2018 by beauty mogul and fragrance fanatic, Mona Kattan.
- KAYALI provides a modern fragrance experience inspired by Mona's rich Middle Eastern heritage and the art of layering scents.
- The company aims to make everyone feel like a diamond through the power of scent, offering innovative and luxurious fragrances, education, and sharing Middle Eastern fragrance rituals.
- Mona collaborates with renowned perfumers and sources fine ingredients to create unique, long-lasting, and cruelty-free fragrances.
- Each fragrance is an ode to craftsmanship, featuring memorable notes and multi-faceted jeweled bottles.
Equal Opportunity
- Kayali is committed to building diverse and inclusive teams and upholding an equal employment workplace that is free from discrimination.
- We hire stellar individuals regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, medical conditions, disability, or veteran status.
- Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals needing assistance during the application or interview process.