Strategy Manager

What You'll Do

• Assist the C-suite in developing comprehensive company strategies. 
• Support leadership in business development planning and tracking, including aligning on priority clients and offerings.
• Build and maintain dashboards using Power BI and/or SQL to provide real-time insights into performance metrics, capital deployment, and project tracking.
• Create a dynamic customer pricing model that projects gross margin across markets and seasonality, which will be used in external partner discussions.
• Develop a perspective on the future gross margin position based on cost reduction initiatives.
• Devise communication plans and investor-ready storytelling that translate complex operations, cost curves, and TAM data into decisive storylines.
• Synthesize clear takeaways from complex information and make strategic recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Identify information sources, gather and interpret data, execute analyses, and present findings.
• Structure and solve ambiguous issues within sales, partnerships, and supply chain.
• Manage and contribute to due diligence processes.
• Manage budget justification and reporting tools to create a finance-approved framework tying brand activations to pay-back horizons and ROIC through automated dashboards.
• Create a live market and pricing intel hub that tracks competitor moves, brand procurement trends and feedstock signals. 
• Build a best-in-class data room that is always current and will allow investors to complete commercial due diligence in half the current time.
• Design implementation plans and lead select initiatives.
• Collaborate on high-level strategic questions, providing data-backed trade-offs and hypothesis-driven solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or related field required.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in devising and implementing business strategies, incorporating quantitative analysis, and building financial models.
• 3+ years of experience with data analysis and building dashboards using Power BI, SQL, or other relevant tools to provide real-time insights into performance metrics, capital deployment, and project tracking.
• 2+ years of experience at a consulting firm or business strategy at a startup.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to own long-term strategic initiatives with minimal guidance.
• Experience with complex business systems and building dashboards.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for engaging various audiences and presenting information across different mediums.
• Experience working with or managing teams in consulting, analytics, supply chain, logistics, engineering, or operations.
• Strong attention to detail and superior time management skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet competing deadlines.
• Ability to independently manage problems, develop solutions, and make proactive decisions.
• Adaptable to changing work demands, comfortable managing ambiguity, and evolving priorities.
• Advanced in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel and Google Sheets.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, results-driven, proactive, self-starter capable of operating independently with minimal daily direction.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build lasting relationships.
• Growth mindset, strong desire to learn quickly and contribute to an industry-defining company.