Manager, Corporate Strategy
About The Position
As a Manager of Corporate Strategy, you will work with the CarMax leadership to help shape the company’s strategy within our Product and Operational departments. You will ensure success in those departments by identifying opportunities across the organization by periodically leading sessions to identify potential new initiatives for development, and developing and maintaining a roadmap of new initiatives and tests for development that roll up to our long-range Strategic Plan. You will support the development of solutions in partnership with our functional experts in each area, define the test plan to understand interdependencies between tests, the sequencing of testing, and identifying key performance metrics. You will conduct test analysis to understand performance and identifying opportunities to further enhance the initiative, determine when ready for market expansion, and maintain a communication strategy to inform all executives on results from strategic initiatives as well as overall business performance.
Requirements
- Track record of strategic thinking and proven thought leadership
- Ability to convert high-level business objectives into concrete action plans and analytical tasks
- Ability to assimilate numerous qualitative and quantitative inputs in the face of ambiguity and drill down to a good decision
- Proven leadership and management skills
- Ability to develop and execute a plan with high degree of independence
- Ability to deliver great results while simultaneously managing several projects
- Ability to organize and prioritize work effectively, and manage your time to meet goals/objectives
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to motivate and influence across all levels of the organization
- Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner through verbal and written methods
- Demonstrated success in analytical decision making
- Ability to apply business and technical knowledge to solve key business problems
- Completion of a four-year undergraduate degree in a business or quantitative discipline with an excellent academic record
- Four or more years of experience in an analytical role
- Experience with strategy formulation, articulation, and implementation
- Computer skills: Excel, PowerPoint
Nice To Haves
- Graduate degree a plus but not required
- Experience with advanced analytics and modeling preferred
- SQL experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Identifying opportunities across the organization by periodically leading sessions to identify potential new initiatives for development, and developing and maintaining a roadmap of new initiatives and tests for development that roll up to our long-range Strategic Plan
- Supporting the development of solutions in partnership with our functional experts in each area
- Defining the test plan to understand interdependencies between tests, the sequencing of testing, and identifying key performance metrics
- Conducting test analysis to understand performance and identifying opportunities to further enhance the initiative
- Determining when ready for market expansion
- Maintaining a communication strategy to inform all executives on results from strategic initiatives as well as overall business performance
Benefits
- Paid sick time
- Vacation time
- Paid holidays
- Floating holiday
- Holiday Premium Pay
- Bereavement
- Jury duty
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
