Executive Director, Corporate Strategy

Launched in 2015, Sol de Janeiro is a globally recognized, award-winning beauty brand, drawing inspiration from Brazil’s beauty rituals, warmth, and spirit. Sol de Janeiro delivers a sensory experience beloved by multi-generational consumers worldwide, with clinically proven results, transformative textures, and transportive fragrances.  

Headquartered in New York and launched as a digitally native brand, we have expanded globally with teams in Rio, Paris, London, and Germany. Our commitment to excellence has earned high-profile honors, including being named one of TIME100’s 2024 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s 2024 World's Most Innovative Companies, and WWD Beauty Inc’s Power Brands of 2024, underscoring its leadership in the beauty industry and outstanding workplace. These accolades highlight our dedication to being a leading brand in the beauty industry and an exceptional workplace. 

The Executive Director, Corporate Strategy serves as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to senior leadership, responsible for facilitating, structuring, and operationalizing the company’s corporate strategy and planning across annual and 3–5 year horizon. This high-impact, high visibility role requires structured problem-solving, rigorous analytical thinking, exceptional executive-level communication, and mature influence. You will drive the strategic planning process, coordinate alignment across senior stakeholders, identify growth opportunities, and translate executive-level insights into clear, actionable initiatives that enhance competitive advantage and accelerate sustainable growth. You will conduct regular reviews of performance against annual and long term plans and you will be asked to tackle specific business problems on an ad hoc basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the development and refinement of the corporate strategy, including annual strategic planning and long-term roadmaps (3–5 year horizons). 

• Partner closely with senior executives across business units to identify strategic priorities that drive market competitiveness and profitable growth.

• Conduct detailed scenario analyses to inform strategic planning, identifying actionable opportunities, to include geographic or channel expansion, market entry, and capability enhancement. • Independently lead analytical workstreams, translating ambiguous business challenges into clearly structured projects from hypothesis to execution.

• Act as a senior strategic consultant, leveraging strong executive presence and maturity to become a trusted advisor to senior leadership and the C-suite.

• Provide actionable insights and forward-looking recommendations on emerging trends, technologies, market dynamics, and strategic opportunities.

• Drive alignment across global and regional leadership teams, ensuring cohesive execution of strategic initiatives and recommendations.

• Conduct rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis—including market sizing (TAM analyses), competitive benchmarking, financial modeling, and consumer insights—to inform strategic decisions.

• Identify and proactively address critical strategic questions facing the business, delivering data-driven recommendations with minimal oversight.

• Expertly craft and deliver compelling executive-level presentations and strategic narratives for senior leadership meetings, board sessions, business reviews, and global strategic planning forums.

• Clearly and succinctly articulate complex strategic insights, opportunities, and recommendations, ensuring maximum clarity, influence, and alignment across stakeholders. • Maintain an external mindset, continuously monitoring competitive positioning, market trends, and macroeconomic developments to ensure the company remains at the forefront of industry innovation.

• Advocate for and support the identification of new growth opportunities, breakthrough innovations, and strategic investments aligned with long-term company goals.

• Mentor, develop, influence and inspire cross-functional teams, building strong strategic capabilities and elevating overall organizational effectiveness.

• Foster a culture of strategic rigor, collaboration, and professional excellence throughout the organization.

Qualifications:

 • Minimum 8+ years’ progressive experience in corporate strategy, ideally within beauty, luxury, or consumer industries, with strong preferen