Strategy Manager, Enterprise Strategy (Hybrid,Seatte)

Nordstrom•Seattle, WA

7d•$121,000 - $199,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise Strategy & Growth Manager leads high-impact projects supporting the Executive Team and operational leaders across the enterprise. The team's focus areas include core strategy (long-term planning, identifying growth vectors, and translating strategy into a multi-year delivery roadmap), business development (identifying external opportunities like partnerships and investments), market and competitive intelligence (measuring and understanding market trends and competitive landscape), and enterprise activation (supporting the CEO and delegates on special projects).

Requirements

MBA or equivalent experience with 8+ years of relevant work, including in strategy, management, consulting, investment banking and/or the retail industry.
A strong sense of ownership and impact that is measured not in effort, but by enterprise adoption of solutions and strong results that follow.
High intellectual curiosity with the humility to learn and the courage to challenge assumptions.
A strategic mindset that can “hold the tension” between getting the details right and keeping the big ideas big.
A passion for managing and developing top-tier talent through coaching, feedback, and proactive opportunity creation.

Responsibilities

Build trust, rapport, and a strong collaborative relationship with senior leaders and stakeholders to understand the deliverables, actions, and decisions for which they are accountable.
Frame hard, ambiguous problems by bringing a rigorous, hypothesis-led, and data-informed approach.
Leverage strong analytical acumen to uncover insights and opportunities for unlocking business value.
Synthesize complex inputs into clear, compelling stories that facilitate commercial decision-making and action-taking - in both verbal and written form.
Identify and pursue sources of enterprise value creation in partnership with Strategy directors & SVP of Strategy, Executive Team and operational leaders.
Manage project teams (Assoc & Sr Assoc level talent), showing up as an emerging leader for the entire team.
Demonstrate enterprise thinking by balancing function-specific goals with broader company strategy, influence change beyond formal authority.
Translate strategic direction into clear execution plans and operating rhythms, ensuring accountability and momentum across teams.
Live Nordstrom values, showing up consistently with large measures of reliability, effectiveness and a commitment to outcomes.