What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Strategic Planner- Hybrid position at eStaffing Inc.?
Job Title: Strategic Planner 4
Job Type: Contract-Hybrid
Duration: 6 Months (high likelihood of extension through EFY)
Location: Beaverton, OR, 97005
Time: 9am to 5pm (M-F) Friday WFH
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
We are looking for a Strategy manager who will work with executive leadership and strategists to drive an integrated strategic offense by prioritizing, defining and recommending a portfolio of growth strategies, grounded in market & consumer insights, that translate to new sources of advantage and growth horizons for client.
You will have a demonstrated track record of:
- Navigating ambiguity with agility and thrive in such environments, uncovering opportunities and delivering pragmatic solutions
- Communicating with high impact (verbal and written) leveraging data informed and hypothesis driven insights
- Driving creative, bold, independent thinking, leveraging simplifying frameworks and a rigorous results-driven process
- Driving cohesion, positive team environment and a team first mindset.
You will take a project-based approach to driving impact, completing rigorous strategic analysis and synthesizing insights into compelling presentations for the Basketball business. Specific responsibilities include:
- Build and catalyze integrated strategic plans across Product, Design, Merchandising, Marketing and Marketplace by driving integrated actions to win with athletes* & drive growth and competitive separation.
- Assess impact of our strategy by diagnosing results aligned to our plan, develop KPIs to measure success and prioritizing future actions.
- Build trust rapidly with multi-functional stakeholders gaining traction through quick wins while simultaneously laying the groundwork for longer lead high impact projects
Skill Requirements-
- Potential for possible travel; should just be once during assignment, specific details unknown
- 8-9 years’ experience minimum in strategy consulting, business development, consumer product strategy, etc.
- Strategic mindset and thought leadership
- Project leadership
- Analytical ability
- Presentation process & good communication skills
- Keynote and PowerPoint expertise
- Ability to influence others (including senior leadership)
- Flexible, collaborative engagement with team
- Ability to foster effective teamwork amongst differing/diverse points of view
- Strategy/consulting experience working at or with other large corporations
- Demonstrated ability to deeply know a consumer and translate insights into gross strategies
- ETW will be working on basketball strategies to come up with consumer- and growth-oriented plans for the business.
Requirements:
- MBA or like graduate degree and minimum of 5 years of directly relevant work experience.
- Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law 3 yrs; Bachelor’s degree 7 yrs; Associates degree 8yrs
- Strategy background inclusive of management consulting, investment banking or corporate strategy experience.
- Apparel/footwear, retail, merchandising, digital/ecommerce and/or experience in consumer facing industries and proven understanding of the competitive landscape / retail marketplace.