Manager, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives

Job Description

Partnerships, Collaboration & Communication

• Establishes strong partnerships and collaborations with internal teams, external stakeholders, and other organizations.

• Fosters a collaborative work environment where team members feel comfortable sharing ideas and supporting one another.

• Facilitates effective communication across teams and stakeholders.

• Ensures all parties have access to relevant information and provides clear instructions and guidance.

• Encourages open and transparent communication.

• Leverages the strengths of team members and partners to maximize collaboration.

• Encourages individuals to contribute their unique skills and abilities, creating a synergistic, high-performing team.

• Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of partnerships and collaborations.

Strategic Planning & Business Solutions

• Sets clear goals, tracks progress and regularly reviews outcomes.

• Provides recommendations to business stakeholders to solve complex business issues (e.g., operational processes, required skills, revenue opportunities).

• Develops business cases for projects with projected return on investment or cost savings.

• Demonstrates functional knowledge of the supported business unit or organization.

• Translates business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks aligned to overall business strategy.

• Serves as an interpreter and conduit between business needs and tangible solutions.

• Recommends new processes and ways of working.

• Partners with internal and external stakeholders to identify and assess strategic choices.

• Provides advice and support to improve business and financial understanding across the organization.

Data, Analytics & Reporting

• Monitors, analyzes, and translates data to support business strategies and requirements (e.g., planning, reporting, budgets, and business cases).

• Explains basic financial management reports.

• Analyzes various approaches to expense and budget management.

• Leverages data analysis tools to explore moderately complex data.

• Develops and tests hypotheses and uses data to influence strategic work.

• Builds, presents, and visualizes insights to influence decision-making.

• Uses customer analytics for basic forecasting purposes.

• Maintains and organizes customer analytics and business portfolio–related data.

• Interprets analytics results and presents findings to management.

• Participates in deploying web-based surveys to collect customer data.

• Creates business analysis reports from analytics data extracts.

• Documents performance criteria used to evaluate business trends and activities.

• Researches business-related data and generates and interprets basic analytics.

• Assists in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to reflect business performance.

Financial & Project Management

• Prepares annual baseline plans and budgets by time period, task, and cost account.

• Uses schedules to prepare cash flow forecasts based on project milestone completion.

• Creates reports on project schedule, cost, and scope progress.

• Compares current status to baselines and forecasts future trends using earned value analysis.

• Uses statistical methods to develop project cost and time estimate ranges based on risk probabilities and confidence levels.

• Tracks project risks and manages changes according to risk management plans.

• Understands financials and how product pricing impacts business performance.

Retail, Market & Category Strategy

• Researches company history and experience with retail markets and channels.

• Documents retail activities, trends, and strategic directions.

• Discusses existing and planned retail approaches for assigned areas of specialization.

• Cites key industry publications and sources of information.

• Explains rationales for major initiatives.

• Participates in defining organizational strategic goals and purposes.

• Defines strategies to acquire and retain customers.

• Analyzes business processes, identifies alternatives to outdated practices, and assesses feasibility.

• Establishes requirements for large-scale organizational and process improvements.

• Evaluates financial, cultural, technological, and operational facto