Principal, Strategy - Converse

Nike • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Every successful team at Converse needs a brilliant game plan. The Converse Strategy team keeps the company moving in the right direction by leading the strategic business planning process and spearheading transformational projects across Converse brand, business units, and marketplace. Who We Are Looking For: The Strategy team shapes the future of Converse, protecting the brand, its financial health, and developing integrated strategies that keep the consumer at the center. As a Principal in Converse Strategy, you will explore complex business issues; conduct consumer, competitive and market analyses; create financial models and develop short-term and long-term action plans. What You’ll Work On: The Strategy Principal will support Converse’s Senior Leadership Team in the development of growth strategies that drive high-level priorities across key business units and markets. This role will specifically partner with our Global and Country-specific Growth teams to shape Converse’s commercial strategies. We write the strategic plans to ensure the right products are in the right channels and partners, and reach the right consumers at the right time.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Applied Science or a related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience or training.
• Professional Experience: 7+ years of proven experience in corporate strategy, consumer or marketplace strategy, management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance, corporate development, business development, and/or marketplace sales & management
• Experience in leading complex strategic projects and proven success in leading a methodical process of analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, then proposing and acting on a course of action
• Strategic Mindset : A curious mind, growth mindset and future orientation
• Adept at developing rigorous strategic frameworks that becomes the foundation for analysis and planning
• Communications & Stakeholder Management: Proficiency in business communication tools and executive-level, verbal/written storytelling + communication to mobilize change
• Consistent track record of pulling together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitating productive discussions
• Superior interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Analytical Abilities: Data analysis and financial modeling
• Market analysis and competitive landscaping
• Quantitative & qualitative acumen
• Project Leadership: Bias towards action and comfortable working in ambiguity
• Ability to work through complexity & adversity
• Project management in a cross-functional, global matrix environment
• Technical Proficiency: Microsoft office suite (including Excel modeling), Keynote and Tableau

Responsibilities

• Direct & execute analysis and due diligence for new growth opportunities, leading to actionable recommendations
• Lead strategic projects leveraging sound hypotheses and rigorous frameworks, pushing beyond analytics & research to insight
• Catalyze the execution of actionable plans with senior leaders and their functional teams
• Align and lead senior teams through ambiguity in a complex organizational matrix, providing project management and chief-of-staff support to senior leaders and large teams
• Collaborate with various cross-functional teams throughout the business to prepare quarterly and annual business reviews, scorecards, and materials for strategic workshops

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees