Strategy Manager

at  Primark

STRATEGY MANAGER

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We are looking for an experienced Strategy Manager to play a pivotal role in driving strategic alignment and delivering against the strategic priorities of the business. We have a significant growth and expansion agenda underway in which we are seeking a candidate to successfully partner with Primark’s leaders and managers to address key corporate strategy questions that will shape the future of the Primark business.
This exciting position will see a suitable candidate imagining new capabilities, developing actionable insights and delivering on strategic projects and initiatives. The successful candidate will also hold a strong portfolio, demonstrating excellent research, design, delivery and analytical skills.

WHAT YOU’LL DO;

In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• Act as an internal strategic advisor, responding to key strategic questions and challenges set by the Primark’s Leadership Team.
• Provide the critical thinking and analysis to breakdown opportunities and challenges to the future performance of the business in a quantified manner and take responsibility for identifying viable solutions with associated workplans.
• Work with information gathered from multiple sources across the business, evaluate true business requirement, ensure proposed strategic solutions and processes are reconciled with all relevant business inputs.
• Work comfortably within the commercial, as well as environmental and social context of the business. In both instances, provide balanced recommendations that consider both the financial and ethical implications and imperatives.
• Identify, communicate, and execute on new opportunities related to the firm’s businesses functions.
• Establish and review the strategic priorities of key programmes and work cross-functionally with the relevant teams to translate them into actionable, quantitative plans.
• Work closely with external partners / consultancies to execute strategic projects and initiatives ensuring that solutions are relevant to, and understood by the business. Additionally, focus on developing the internal capability and capacity to ensure successful execution and adoption.
• Contributing to the planning and running of the annual calendar of strategic meetings with the Leadership Team / Senior Directors of the business

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

• Substantial and proven experience of business strategy development within a large organisation and / or top-tier consultancy environment.
• Strong experience with the Retail sector and prior experience of advising senior management, to include a minimum 5 years’ experience working with or for retail companies (ideally within fashion/clothing).
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to provide clarity and direction to previously unexplored situations and topics.
• Effective and persuasive presentation skills, with the ability to present complex information in a comprehensible manner to all areas of the business.
• The ability to navigate complex multi-stakeholder environments and the strong interpersonal skills that are required to work cross-functionally and generate ‘buy-in’ from internal and external stakeholder groups.
• Substantial experience of conducting detailed data and financial analysis, with a good knowledge of relevant analytics tools and methodologies.
• Ability to keep abreast of the continually evolving retail landscape and consumer behaviours, bringing market insights, data and thought leadership into strategic planning to continually push the business forward.
• Has a good understanding of organisational dynamics and business process and policies. Experience in dealing with strategic challenges posed by a growing retail business, fashion specific experience a bonus.
• Challenges the status quo and applies lessons learned to enhance future ways of working