Position Overview

Job Description Summary
The Strategy Manager will leading initiatives that drive company growth and profitability and further our strategic goals (as outlined in Burlington 2.5). This is a highly visible position with significant interaction with senior company executives.

You will regularly be posed with complex business questions and will be asked to develop an approach, analytical plan, and a recommendation that will be presented to senior leadership to guide tangible decisions. To lead that work, you will need to work cross-functionally and be able to leverage a wide range of qualitative and quantitative insights from your internal network, internal systems, and external data sources. Recommendations will include practical solutions that improve Burlington’s off-price execution.

This role requires exceptional problem solving skills, strong analytical capabilities, and great communication skills (written, through presentations, and spoken). A collaborative mindset and genuine interesting in partnering broadly across the organization, is essential to driving the change we facilitate in this group.

A Day in the Life

• Investigate opportunities using a hypothesis-driven approach

• Conduct insightful analysis using internal and external data, with the goal of identifying  growth and profit improvement opportunities

• Communicate sharp storylines calling out key insights from complex analyses

• Develop business cases modeling ROI to secure financial approvals, as needed

• Identify the key drivers of financial performance and linkage to strategic initiatives

• Track results against the key operating and financial metrics for specific strategy initiatives

• Follow through work to execution and manage transition to long-term partners

You'll Come With

• Undergraduate degree in an analytical field from a top-tier educational institution; MBA or MS is preferred, but not required

• 2-4 years of experience top-tier strategy consulting firm.

• Alternately, for those without consulting background, 3-4 years in an analytical and relevant role with exposure to senior leaders

• Experience in the Retail sector strongly preferred.

• Structured & Logical Thinking - The ability to structure problems in a hypothesis driven approach, to understand the implications of strategic analysis, and to make data-supported recommendations

• Analytical Rigor - Capability for conducting quantitative analysis and work with large data sets that need to be summarized, as well as incomplete datasets where practical assumptions are needed to overcome data gaps

• Storytelling and Communication - Able to take data from various sources, leverage Excel, Word and PowerPoint to put together effective analysis, recommendations, and presentations

• Passion for Retail - A people-friendly mindset who enjoys working with frontline associates, our merchants, and also our corporate executives; someone seeking to put our customer needs first and helping us become the destination of choice for the ‘treasure hunt’

Come join our team. You’re going to like it here!  

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