Senior Analyst, Strategy - Gap Brand

About the Role

In this role you'll work front and center in defining the best path forward for our company. Through rigorous analyses, focus on our customers, creative thinking, and deep partnership with the business, we develop the strategic direction for our portfolio of brands. We are responsible for the definition and evolution of our overall corporate strategy, for identifying organic and inorganic growth opportunities where we can create structural advantage, and for preparing and supporting our C-Level executives for key stakeholders meetings. You will be in charge of driving critical projects to advance our priorities, growth, and long range plans. Your goal is to drive long-term, value creation through deep partnership with leaders and stakeholders across the company.

What You'll Do

• Drive Gap Brand Strategy initiative identification, planning, and success. Activities include: identifying key issues, structuring problems, developing and delivering on workplans that drive value creation; performing quantitative and qualitative analysis, including analyzing data, creating financial models, and conducting market and competitive research; synthesizing findings, developing a storyline and the supporting materials to communicate recommendations to Senior Management and Leadership Team
• Support cross functional business partners with analytical insights and problem solving
• Own work planning, hypotheses generation, issue identification, and analytical framework development
• Build cross functional partnerships and consensus
• Influence strategy for area/team

Who You Are

• Professional Strategy experience, preferably with experience in apparel, retail, management consulting, or private equity
• Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with the ability to quickly identify key issues and develop hypotheses
• Able to translate complex ideas and dispersed information into simple, actionable recommendations
• Strong analytical skills, with ability to collect, organize and analyze large / complex data sets efficiently and effectively
• Ability to assess relatively complex situations and analyze data to make judgments and recommend solutions