Strategy Manager

Summary

Burlington Stores, Inc. is seeking a Strategy Manager to lead initiatives that drive company growth and profitability. This highly visible role involves complex business analysis and collaboration with senior executives to guide strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• Undergraduate degree in an analytical field from a top-tier educational institution
• 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
• 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'
• MBA or MS is preferred, but not required
• Experience in the Retail sector strongly preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Undergraduate degree in an analytical field from a top-tier educational institution
• 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
• 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'

Nice to Haves

• MBA or MS is preferred, but not required
• Experience in the Retail sector strongly preferred

Benefits

• Competitive wages
• Flexible hours
• An associate discount
• Medical, dental and vision coverage including life and disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• A 401(k) plan
• A variety of training and development opportunities