The ideal Senior Manager, Enterprise Strategy & Growth leads high-impact projects that support the Executive Team and operational leaders across the enterprise, while also managing and developing a team of high-performing strategists. This role is both strategic and people-focused—balancing enterprise-wide influence with responsibility for building talent, driving engagement, and delivering results. Across the team, the common thread is helping Nordstrom achieve its long-term growth ambition. 

Team Focus Areas:  

• Enterprise Strategy: “core” strategy that includes long-term planning, identifying major growth vectors, and translating strategy into a multi-year delivery roadmap in partnership with business owners  

• Business Development: identify external opportunities to contribute to long-term ambition, such as partnerships and investments   

• Market & Competitive Intelligence: measure, understand, and educate the enterprise on market trends, market share capture opportunities, and changes in the competitive landscape  

• Enterprise Activation: also known as “office of the CEO,” provide support to the CEO and delegates on special projects  

A day in the life...  

• 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 and mentor a team of Associate and Sr. Associate strategists, providing coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities 

•  Role model enterprise thinking—connecting functional priorities to the broader company strategy 

• Translate strategic direction into clear execution plans and operating rhythms, ensuring accountability and momentum across teams  

• Influence cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority, driving alignment and impact 

• Live Nordstrom values, showing up consistently with large measures of reliability, effectiveness and a commitment to outcomes  

You own this if you have...  

• MBA or equivalent experience with 8+ years of relevant work, including in strategy, management, consulting, investment banking and/or the retail industry   

• A passion for people leadership, including a track record of developing talent through coaching and creating growth opportunities 

• 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