Corporate Strategy Manager jobs in the United States

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 of 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 support the beauty market assessment and competitive intelligence for the enterprise, including supporting structuring and execution of the comprehensive monitoring and codification of the competitive landscape, tracking the beauty market, and assessing dynamics and shifts in competitors’ strategies, connecting it back to the enterprise strategic imperatives.

This individual will blend strong analytical capabilities with a strategic mindset and the drive to deliver impact with excellence.

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the long-term and annual strategic planning processes, with Corporate Strategy team, including building enterprise long-term strategy and breakout growth opportunities
• Collaborate with the Corporate Strategy team, Finance, and Investor Relations to translate our long-term strategy and build our investor narrative for Investor Day
• Structure problems and develop frameworks and approaches to address complex, cross-functional and ambiguous business issues
• Work with cross-functional teams on initiatives to assess strategic opportunities, leveraging strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks
• Support market and competitive intelligence for both the enterprise and specific functional areas – bring an analytical mindset to strengthen our understanding of the market landscape through data-driven and forward-looking insights
• Define and bring forward creative, out-of-the-box thinking to identify white space opportunities – assess and articulate the strategic rationale, grounded in data-driven insights, in support of enterprise-wide strategic plan
• Work and expand network and reach cross-functionally to identify strategic priorities throughout the organization
• Excel in all areas of strategy development at the Manager level, including problem structuring and solving, business analysis, project management, and verbal and written communication

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitate and support discussions with Ulta’s senior leadership, demonstrating subject matter expertise and ability to move work forward effectively
• Connect the dots across the organization to ensure effectiveness of work throughout the enterprise, and understand when to seek guidance
• Understand Ulta Beauty’s business and possess a deep understanding of the market in which we operate, as well as key competitors

YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH THIS BY:

• 5-7 years of professional experience in Strategy, Finance or Marketing
• At least 2 years of consulting experience at a top-tier management consulting firm strongly preferred
• BA/BS required and MBA from top-tier program preferred
• Experience in retail or consumer product goods preferred
• Strategic mindset with the capability to think broadly, support and facilitate the development and implementation of winning strategies at the enterprise level
• Highly analytical with demonstrated ability to translate data into key insights to drive decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with strong executive presence
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented with a coachable, positive attitude
• Innate inquisitiveness and ability to challenge the status-quo – drive the enterprise to think differently
• Desire to see personal and organizational effort lead to bottom line results
• Comfortable working independently and in collaborative manner in a cross-functional environment

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.