Retail Business Planning Team Manager

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The Apple Retail Business Planning team sits at the center of Retail, supporting the Retail Leadership Team. This team is responsible for connecting the strategies and plans across the teams, and for driving key initiatives forward.

Description

This role requires managing a team of individual contributors to manage the organization's priorities, ensuring alignment across teams, driving critical initiatives, and supporting the Retail Business Planning Director in decision-making processes. The Retail Business Planning Team Manager will work closely with senior leadership, providing operational, project management, and organizational oversight. We are looking for a "stitcher", who has extensive experience with storytelling across both business and financial plans. The ideal candidate has strong business and financial acumen, is organized, strategic, and possesses excellent management, leadership, and communication skills.

1) Team Management

Responsible for managing team and workload. Guide the work of the Retail Business Planning team, setting expectations and deadlines, reviewing work, and providing feedback. Build capabilities of individuals and teams through employee development, involvement, communication, and coaching

2) Organization-Wide Communication

Lead the team to prepare presentations, reports, and strategic documents

3) Presentation Development

Support development of key internal communications and presentations including Retail Quarterly Business Reviews, Executive Meetings, Board of Directors, Fiscal Year Plan, and All Team Meetings. This work includes storytelling across both business and financial plans and initiatives

4) Leadership Meetings

Support recurring strategic and operational meetings such as Retail Leadership Staff(s), Executive Assistant meetings, etc. to ensure shared context, awareness, and alignment. Work with team to assemble and make the agenda available before meetings begins. Collect and prepare content. Ensure actions are tracked and completed. Source and curate content for regular activity reports

5) Management System

Elevate and improve on the Retail Management System, including cadence of Leadership meetings and updates aligned with Retail Strategic Focus Areas. Ensure measurement against timelines and KPI's. Connect the dots across teams and workstreams that should intersect and collaborate. Elevate risks. Identifying areas of improvement across the Retail organization and make actionable recommendations. Present the Retail Leadership Team with detailed operations analyses

6) Special Projects

Project manage special strategic initiatives for the Retail Leadership team from inception to completion and develop business insights and recommendations

7) Retail Strategy

Develop and lead key ongoing Retail-wide analyses, including researching and analyzing retail industries, technology segments, and business models, and evaluating the merits and risks of complex alternatives. Work cross-functionally to incubate ideas and develop strategies that influence the future direction of Apple's Retail investments. Craft compelling stories, supported by data, that bring strategies to life. Help transform the Retail Leadership Team's ideas into reality and monitor their progress

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years people management experience

Outstanding analytical skills and experience in collecting, analyzing, and tracking key business data

Relentless focus on details, accuracy, and quality

Exceptional influencer that knows how to connect the dots at the project, team, and organizational levels

Minimum Qualifications

This role typically requires 10+ years of work experience in strategy, finance, or business development role in a Retail-centric environment; 8+ years related experience with a strategy consulting firm or investment bank, and/or experience as a Chief of Staff at a large organization

Demonstrated people-leadership experience

Experience managing relationships and working cross-functionally within global organizations

Ability to understand and articulate the big picture to executive teams, while maintaining exceptional attention to execution details

Excellent problem-solving and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively facilitate complex meetings with executives and partners across multiple functions in an organization

Excellent program management skills, with ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously

Excellent Keynote / Powerpoint and Excel skills

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

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