Manager Corporate Strategy
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OVERVIEW
Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in our strategic initiatives to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.
We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.
THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE
The Corporate Strategy team is responsible for developing the enterprise strategy and long-term vision for Ulta and identifying, evaluating and executing new growth opportunities and strategic initiatives.
The Manager, Corporate Strategy will be responsible for working with the team to lead targeted strategic efforts with enterprise and functional leaders. These efforts will include driving the long-term and annual strategic planning processes, supporting problem solving and opportunity evaluation, performing strategic and financial analysis, visioning and creating business cases and executing efforts to develop high potential strategic opportunities with excellence. Because the work involves close partnership with cross-functional leaders, this individual will also support facilitation and alignment to key strategic decisions and serve as a thought partner to leadership at a senior level, including the C-suite. Further, the individual in this role should have strong ability to structure problems and be comfortable developing approaches to frame ambiguous business issues. This individual will also drive the beauty market assessment and / or competitive intelligence for the enterprise, including supporting structuring and execution of the comprehensive monitoring and codification of the competitive landscape, tracking and forecasting the beauty market, and assessing dynamics and shifts in competitors’ strategies, connecting it back to our enterprise strategy.
This individual will blend strong analytical capabilities with a strategic mindset and the drive to deliver impact with excellence.
* Position is located at corporate offices in Bolingbrook, IL (Hybrid work schedule – approx. 6 days in office per month)
YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY
Support the long-term and annual strategic planning processes with the Corporate Strategy team, including building the enterprise long-term strategy and new growth opportunitiesCollaborate with Corporate Strategy, Finance, and Investor Relations to translate our long-term strategy and build our investor narrative for Investor DayStructure problems and develop frameworks and approaches to address complex, cross-functional and ambiguous business issuesWork with cross-functional teams including Retail Ops, Digital, Merchandising Strategy and others, on initiatives to assess strategic opportunities, leveraging strategic, analytical, and financial frameworksSupport market and competitive intelligence for both the enterprise and specific functional areas – bring an analytical mindset to strengthen our understanding of the market and competitive landscape through data-driven and forward-looking insightsDevelop Board and executive level presentations articulating Ulta Beauty’s strategy and growth opportunities and facilitate Executive Team workshops on strategic topicsDefine and bring forward creative, out-of-the-box thinking to identify white space opportunities for new growth – assess and articulate the strategic rationale, grounded in data-driven insights, in support of enterprise-wide strategic planWork and expand network and reach cross-functionally to identify strategic priorities throughout the organizationExcel in all areas of strategy development at the Manager level, including problem structuring and solving, business analysis, project management, and verbal and written communicationFacilitate and support discussions with Ulta’s senior leadership, demonstrating subject matter expertise and ability to move work forward effectivelyConnect the dots across the organization to ensure effectiveness of work throughout the enterprise, and understand when to seek guidanceUnderstand Ulta Beauty’s business and possess a deep understanding of the market in which we operate, as well as key competitorsESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS
Position is located at corporate offices in Bolingb
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