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Job Description
Retail Strategy & Planning Manager
Top skills: Powerpoint and Excel Creation, Project Management, Strategic framework creation
Schedule: Fully Onsite
Role & Responsibilities
You will be supporting Retail Strategy team in strategy and strategic framework development for various retail projects. You will be responsible for project planning including milestone management; and risk and issue management.
Reports to the Sr. Manager, Retail Strategy & Planning, based at our Plano, TX office.
Position Objective
Retail Strategy & Planning Manager
Top skills: Powerpoint and Excel Creation, Project Management, Strategic framework creation
Schedule: Fully Onsite
Role & Responsibilities
You will be supporting Retail Strategy team in strategy and strategic framework development for various retail projects. You will be responsible for project planning including milestone management; and risk and issue management.
Reports to the Sr. Manager, Retail Strategy & Planning, based at our Plano, TX office.
Position Objective
- Be the strategic partner/thinker for key retail projects in developing a strategy, goals, KPIs, and execution plan
- Interpret various internal & external data to extract key insights to identify new opportunities and to build the strategy
- Establish frameworks and standards for Program and Project Management
- Ensure the successful implementation of strategy, objectives, targets, and deliverables
- Manage and/or compile project related KPIs and data
- Preparing C-level strategy slides in a succinct and visual manner
- Bachelors degree required with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in corporate, product strategy role
- Proven ability to successfully bring products to market and providing strategic guidance and operational oversight
- Ability to communicate effectively and craft compelling narratives to influence business and tactical stakeholders across all levels of the organization
- Strategic & data-driven thinker and visual storyteller
- Strong powerpoint skill required to narrate strategy to the leadership
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, including ability to operate in ambiguity and establishing frame works that apply to emerging business problems
- Strong organization and execution skills, including ability to operate independently and drive strategic initiatives from ideation to end results
- Experience with top retailer or consumer electronics strongly preferred
- Well demonstrated strategic and analytical thinking skills; ability to organize and prioritize tasks based on critical impact assessment
- Will need to be results oriented, seek empowerment, inquisitive, and possess versatile communication styles
- Ability to influence, lead, motivate and direct the activities cross functional resources and support groups to attain objectives, establish project schedules and execute within specified timeline
- Ability to adopt to constantly evolving market conditions and business requirements
- Korean-speaking a plus
- Constantly curious, leading by example to ensure research, insights and data analytics drives our understanding of the customer and their needs
- A passionate customer advocate
- Demonstrated experience in executive presentations, story-telling and sound bites
- Self-starter, high level of energy, motivation and ability to work independently, mobilize teams into action and manage multiple projects with demanding platforms
- Strong leadership presence. Enables success for others through good partnerships and trusted partners. Skilled communicator who influences internal and external senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Challenges the status quo, never settles and drives, innovates to find a better way
- Humble, proud and creates environments where team members enjoy accountability and fulfilment from working in your team
