Manager, Strategic Planning
About The Position
The Manager, Strategic Planning plays a critical role in translating senior leadership vision into execution across AccuWeather’s enterprise. This role requires strong business judgment, comfort operating in ambiguity, and a bias toward action. Working closely with the CEO and Founder, this individual will help ensure that the company’s highest-priority initiatives move from idea to outcome with clarity, accountability, and speed. This is a business role for someone who thrives in complexity, simplifies decisions, and takes ownership for results. It is not a project management, administrative, or process-heavy operations role.
Requirements
- MBA strongly preferred, particularly for candidates seeking long-term enterprise leadership development
- Exceptional operating experience may substitute for formal MBA training, provided the bar is met
- 3–7 years of experience in strategy, operations, chief of staff, or execution-focused business roles
- Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives from concept through execution in complex, cross-functional environments
- Proven comfort working directly with senior executives and influencing without formal authority
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs and make sound recommendations
- Bias for action and ability to move forward without requiring consensus
- Structured thinker who can simplify complexity and communicate clearly
- Low ego, high accountability, and strong ownership mindset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Organized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
Responsibilities
- Capture, structure, and synthesize strategic priorities directly from the CEO and senior leadership
- Translate ideas into clear options, recommendations, and execution paths, including tradeoffs and sequencing
- Drive clarity on decision-making and ensure strategic initiatives have clear outcomes and accountability
- Assign and maintain single-point ownership for high-impact initiatives to ensure follow-through
- Track progress, surface risks early, and close execution loops
- Prepare concise analyses (ROI, scenarios, tradeoffs) to support fast, high-quality decisions
- Maintain a clear, living view of enterprise priorities to ensure focus and momentum
- Partner closely with senior leaders across product, technology, forecasting, and commercial teams
- Reduce friction, ambiguity, and rework by driving clarity on priorities and ownership
- Enable senior leaders to spend more time on high-value work by accelerating execution velocity
- Performs other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
