Brand Strategy Manager
San Francisco, CA, United States
The Hiring Manager is looking for a strategy generalist with experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or channel/digital strategy.
Candidates with experience at one of the top four management consulting firms would be ideal for this role.
The candidate should be comfortable with data and analysis but does not need to build complex models.
Brand Strategy Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our brand and channel strategy and initiatives. In this role you'll work front and center in helping define the best growth path forward for our brand. Through rigorous analyses, focus on our customers & competitors, creative thinking, and partnership with other functions across the business, we develop the future strategic direction for the brand. You will be help drive critical projects to advance our strategic priorities, growth, and long-range plans through deep partnership with brand leaders and stakeholders across the company. Your goal is to drive long-term, value creation through deep partnership with leaders and stakeholders across the company.
What You'll Do
Support ON brand and channel strategy initiative identification, planning, and success. Activities include: identifying key issues, structuring problems, developing and delivering on workplans that drive value creation across client; performing quantitative and qualitative analysis, including analyzing data, creating financial models, and conducting market and competitive research; synthesizing findings, developing a storyline and the supporting materials to communicate recommendations to Senior Management and Leadership Team Support cross functional business partners with analytical insights and problem solving Own work planning, hypotheses generation, issue identification, and analytical framework development Build cross functional partnerships and consensus Influence strategy for area/team
Who You Are:
Professional work experience, preferably in apparel, retail, management consulting or private equity Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with the ability to quickly identify key issues and develop hypotheses Able to translate complex ideas and dispersed information into simple, actionable recommendations Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with ability to oversee and provide direction to cross-functional; partners and/or more junior team members Strong business acumen related to consumer facing businesses and ability to assess impact of decisions on overall business performance Strength in written and oral communication with proven ability to connect and influence with senior executives Strong ability and willingness to collaborate effectively a true team player